Rey Chow is an American cultural critic, specializing in 20th-century Chinese fiction and film, postcolonial theory and critical and cultural theory. The topics explored in her writings include literature, film and visual studies, sexuality and gender, postcolonialism, ethnicity, and cross-cultural politic.
Chow is currently Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature at Duke University.[1]
Chow was born in Hong Kong. She received a B.A. at University of Hong Kong, and a doctorate in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University in 1986. In 1996, she became a professor in the Comparative Literature Program at the University of California, Irvine. Later, she became Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University.