SAS Fellows

The School of Advanced Study offers fellowships under a number of programmes: the S T Lee and School of Advanced Study fellowships; and the Distinguished Senior Fellows. Details for these can be found on the School of Advanced Study website.

Professor Lisa Lowe (Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego) is the holder of the SAS Visiting Professorial Fellowship 2011-12, staying at the School from January to June 2012 and affiliated with the Institutes for the Study of the Americas, of Historical Research and of Commonwealth Studies. She is to give two lectures: 'Vanity Fair and the Fetishism of Colonial Commodities' on 15 Feb 2012 and 'The Intimacies of Four Continents' on 15 May 2012.

Professor Lisa Lowe studied European intellectual history at Stanford, and French literature and critical theory at UC Santa Cruz. Her research and teaching interests are French, British, and U.S. literatures, and the topic of Asian migration within European and American modernities. She has published books on orientalism, immigration, and culture within globalisation.

Professor Tristan Platt of the Department of Social Anthropology, School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, was awarded the Visiting Professorial Fellowship for 2010/2011 in the School of Advanced Study and was associated with the Institute for the Study of the Americas.