Eileen Chengyin Chow

What Are The Possibilities for Telling "Taiwan Stories" - With Eileen Chow, Clarissa Wei, Chiao Ning Su · August 18, 2021 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Taiwan Foreign Correspondents Club, Taiwan FCC zoom panel Most of the time, stories about Taiwan in foreign media focus more on cross-Strait relations, politics, or the tech industry. But what are the other possibilities about the "Taiwan stories?" We hope we can discover more of that through a conversation with three specialists.

Asian Hate in America: A Conversation With Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, Jiayang Fan & Michelle Ye Hee Lee - FCC HK Conversations · March 24, 2021 Broadcast Appearance The Foreign Correspondents' Club, Hong Kong, recorded zoom panel Last week’s shootings in Atlanta, in which six women of Asian descent were killed, have put an international spotlight on the growing wave of anti-Asian violence in the United States. With a recent report finding that hate crimes targeting Asian Americans in major U.S. cities increased 150% in 2020, it’s clearer than ever that this community is under threat. And Asian American women are particularly vulnerable. According to new research from Stop AAPI Hate, 68% of the nearly 3,800 anti-Asian racist incidents that took place last year targeted women. How did it come to this, and how will the situation change moving forward? In this FCC Zoom event, our panelists discuss Asian American identity, media coverage of hate crimes and the public’s response to the killings in Atlanta. Moderated by FCC First Vice President Eric Wishart.

I Eat, Therefore I Am: East Asian Food Cultures - Exploring Self and Community in Dark Times · March 24, 2021 Lecture Trinity College Duke, Duke University (recorded zoom panel) Join a conversation about the myriad ways in which we talk about and around food and culture, especially as it pertains to Asian foodways – what are some frameworks for talking about food, and the geographic/political/cultural complexities of drawing boundaries around a term such as “East Asia”? Topics might include migration (of specific foods and crops and spices as well as of peoples), cuisine, and empire; issues of authenticity and hybridity (Chinatown chop-suey); virtual consumption (mukbang videos) and virtual labor (Animal Crossing); history as periods of famine and plenitude and lack; food as danger in times of contagion (“bat soup”) and the ethics of consumption in times of crisis

The lecture was part of a series for first- and second-year Duke students called Exploring Self and Community in Dark Times.

Being Asian American: After the Atlantic Killings - Tom Ashbrook interviews Eileen Chow · March 19, 2021 Interview Ashbrook Live Chinese-American scholar Eileen Cheng-yin Chow knows the mythology of Asian immigration to America, and she knows the reality. The sickening shootings and deaths of Asian-American women in Atlanta-area spas this week, she says, have long echoes in American history. As the country grapples with white supremicist violence and the vulnerability and strength of others, we dive in with a savvy interpreter of the narratives we carry.

What it Means to Be an American - With David Rubenstein, Eileen Chow, Tommy Sowers, Hardy Vieux · November 6, 2020 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Duke Alumni Lifelong Learning, Duke University (zoom panel) Recorded October 20, 2020

What does it mean to be an American? For many, this question is perhaps more difficult to answer than ever before. In this signature fall event that can only be described as distinctly Duke, our alumni and faculty panelists will share their unique perspectives, and hopefully provide a much needed moment of reflection for Duke alumni.

Moderator: David Rubenstein '70, P'15 - Founder and Co-Executive Chairman of The Carlyle Group; Duke University Trustee Emeritus

Panelists:

Eileen Chow - Visiting Associate Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Tommy Sowers '98 - Adjunct Assistant Professor in Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Hardy Vieux '93 - Vice President, Legal, Human Rights First

Eileen Chang at 100 - Asia Society · September 29, 2020 Broadcast Appearance Asia Society, Asia Society New York (zoom panel) A monthlong celebration of the literary success and lasting influence of the Chinese American writer Eileen Chang, through a choose-your-own-adventure list of books and film adaptations, culminating in a scholarly panel discussion.

Service to the Profession

Judging Panel, The Patrick D. Hanan Book Prize for Translation · August 2025 - August 2025 Committee Service Association for Asian Studies

Co-Initiator and Director, Frontline Non-Fiction Translation Fellowship · 2024 Committee Service Frontine Foundation Co-initiator and director of Frontline Non-Fiction Translation Fellowship. Our inaugural round (2024) resulted in the awarding of four Translation Fellows and the online publications of four longform prize-winning journalistic pieces. Season 2 (2025) is in process, and the eight translated pieces are under discussion for print publication, both bilingually and in English.

Editorial Board Member, Third State Books · 2022 Editorial Activities Third State Books Editorial Board for Third State Books, a new publishing house amplifying stories from Asian America and the Pacific Islands

Executive Board Member, Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) · 2019 Consulting Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB)

Co-Convenor, The Harvard China Gender Studies Workshop · 2016 Committee Service Fairbank Center, Harvard University

MLA Executive Committee Member, MLA Executive Committee on Status of Women in the Profession · 2014 - 2017 Committee Service MLA

Editorial Board Member, 《傳播研究與實踐》Journal of Communication Research and Practice · 2014 Editorial Activities Shih Hsin University

Service to Duke

Participant, Duke Faculty Academy · 2024 - 2025 Professional Development Duke Office for Faculty Advancement

Leadership & Clinical Positions

Acting Director, Asia Pacific Studies Institute (Fall 2024, 2025-26)

Director of Graduate Studies, M.A. in East Asian Studies (2022 - )

Duke Faculty Academy Inaugural Cohort (2024-25)

Executive Committee Member, Asian Pacific Studies Institute (2021-23, 2025-)

Core Faculty, Asian American and Diaspora Studies at Duke, (2018 - )

Core Faculty, Graduate Program in Critical Asian Humanities at Duke (2014 - )

Co-Faculty Advisor, Lang Dorm LLC

Co-editor with Carlos Rojas, Sinotheory, Duke University Press book series (2017 - )

Co-Founder and Director, Story Lab at Duke (2015 - )
Story Lab at Franklin Humanities Institute (2015-2018)
Story Lab at Link 6 Perkins (2018- )

University and Provostial Committees: University Committee on Century Courses (2024-26), Constellations Course Lead (2024-26), Provost's Committee on Peer Evaluation (2022- ), Racial Equity Advisory Council (REAC), Committee Member (2021-2024), Provost's Advisory Committee for Online Education (ACOE) (2019-2022)