2008 Class of 1932 Fellow in English and Visiting Professor, Humanities Council, Princeton University
2010–20 Ann Firor Scott Professor of Literature, Duke University
2010 Thomas Langford Lectureship Award, Duke University
2016 Award for Distinguished Contribution to Ethnic Studies, Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States (MELUS) Elected Fellow, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2017–23 Distinguished Visiting Professor, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, and School of Chinese, Faculty of Arts, the University of Hong Kong
2019– Invited to be Distinguished Cornille Professor, Newhouse Center for the Humanities, Wellesley College
2020– Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, Duke University
2026– Academician, Academia Sinica
AUTHORED MONOGRAPHS
- 1991 Woman and Chinese Modernity: The Politics of Reading between West and East, U of Minnesota P (Chinese translation, 1995; Japanese translation, 2003)
- 1993 Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies, Indiana UP (Japanese translation, 1998; Korean translation, 2005)
- 1995 Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema, Columbia UP (Japanese translation, 1999; Chinese translation, 2001; Korean translation, 2004)
- 1995 (In Chinese translation) 寫在家國以外Xie zai jia guo yi wai, Oxford UP (Hong Kong)
- 1998 Ethics after Idealism: Theory–Culture–Ethnicity–Reading, Indiana UP (Chinese translation, 2013)
- 2002 The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Columbia UP
- 2004 (In Italian translation) Il sogno di Butterfly: costellazioni postcoloniali, Meltemi editore (Rome)
- 2006 The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work, Duke UP (Italian translation, 2007; Bulgarian translation, 2010; Chinese translation, 2011; Japanese translation, 2014)
- 2007 Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility, Columbia UP (Chinese translation, 2019)
- 2010 The Rey Chow Reader, ed. Paul Bowman, Columbia UP
- 2012 Entanglements, or Transmedial Thinking about Capture, Duke UP
- 2014 Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience, Columbia UP (Chinese translation, 2024)
- 2021 A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present, Columbia UP
EDITED COLLECTIONS
- 1999 Special Issue, differences 11.2 (1999): “Writing in the Realm of the Senses,” ed. with intro.
- 2000 Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory: Reimagining a Field, ed. with intro., Duke UP
- 2005 Special Issue, Comparative Literature Studies 42.4: “Between Languages,” co-edited with intro., with Réda Bensmaïa
- 2011 Special Issue, differences 22.2 & 3 (2011): “The Sense of Sound,” co-edited with intro., with James A. Steintrager
- 2019 Sound Objects, co-edited with intro., with James A. Steintrager, Duke UP
LANGUAGES IN WHICH PUBLICATIONS HAVE APPEARED
English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Bulgarian, Slovene, Russian