Tani E. Barlow

Tani Barlow is a scholar of feminism, postcoloniality, and history in Asia and most specifically in China. She is the George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities at Rice University.[1] Formerly, Barlow was a professor of history and women studies at the University of Washington.[2] She is known for her research on Chinese feminism.[3]

Tani Barlow
Nationality	US
Alma mater	University of California, Davis
Title	George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities
Scientific career
Fields	History, gender studies, China
Institutions	Rice University

Education

• 1985 Ph.D. History, University of California, Davis,
• 1979 M.A. History, University of California, Davis
• 1975 B.A. History and Chinese language dual degree, San Francisco State University

Career

Shanghai Teachers University, lecturer in American culture, 1981-82; University of Missouri-Columbia, assistant professor of history, 1985-90, associate professor of history, 1990-92; San Francisco State University, associate professor, 1992-94; University of Washington, Women Studies, associate professor, 1994-97, professor, 1997-2008, professor of history, 2004-08; Rice University, professor of history, Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Studies, Chao Center for Asian Studies, director, 2008-2019. [4] George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities,

Awards

Barlow edits the journal positions: east asia cultures critique,[5] for which she received the 1995 Best New Journal Award, the 2009 Best Special Issue Award and the 2011 Best Special Issue Award from The Council of Editors of Learned Journals of the Modern Language Association.

Publications

• Tani Barlow, Madeleine Dong, Uta Poiger, Priti Ramamurthy, Lynn Thomas, and Alys Weinbaum (eds.) The Modern Girl Around the World, Durham: Duke University Press, 2008
• Tani Barlow, The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism, Durham: Duke University Press, 2004
• Tani Barlow (ed.) New Asian Marxisms, Durham: Duke University Press, 1997
• Tani Barlow (ed.), Formations of Colonial Modernity in East Asia, Durham: Duke University Press, 1997
• Tani Barlow (ed.), Gender Politics in Modern China: Writing and Feminism, Durham: Duke University Press, 1994
• Tani Barlow and Angela Zito, Body, Subject, and Power in China, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994

Video

A lecture at Duke University

Notes

1. Tani Barlow Rice History Department
2. Tani Barlow: Scholar of Woman Studies Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine
3. DuBois, Ellen Carol (Spring 2008), "How Tani Barlow Answers The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism", Journal of Women's History, 20 (1): 227–230, doi:10.1353/jowh.2008.0016, S2CID 145014417.
4. "Barlow, Tani E," in Lisa Kumar, ed., The Writers Directory (Detroit, MI: St. James Press; 2012), 153.
5. positions: east asia cultures critique, Duke University Press, archived from the original on 2012-09-26, retrieved 2015-12-30.

External links

• Rice University, Department of History website - Includes Barlow's Curriculum Vitae, Courses, and Selected Papers.
• Google scholar profile
• Tani Barlow Papers - Pembroke Center Archives, Brown University