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Penny Yeung and Chen Xing Immersed in Sinology this winter @ NTU in Taipei
Our newly graduated Dr. Penny Yeung and second-year cohort member Chen Xing escaped from the New Jersey cold to participate in the 2025 International Sinology Seminar, Intellectual Journeys in Modern … Read More
Penny Pui Chee Yeung wonderfully and successfully defended her dissertation in early September!
In September, Penny Yeung defended her dissertation entitled “Double Voicing: Postmonolingual Multilingualism in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée, Dung Kai-Cheung’s Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City, and Yoko Tawada’s … Read More
Abigail Drach enjoyed her poetic early autumn in the London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
In September 2025, our first-year cohort member Abigail Drach took part in the London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research’s international conference on poetry. The theme of the conference was “Poetry Between … Read More
Xingming Wang successfully defended his dissertation on “Coal Attachment: Cultures of Fossil Fuels in Modern China”!
Xingming Wang defended his dissertation, “Coal Attachment: Cultures of Fossil Fuels in Modern China,” on September 26. His committee consists of Prof. Jorge Marcone (co-chair), Prof. Weijie Song (co-chair), Prof. … Read More
Emily Martin and Quillan Qian attended the PHYSIS Summer School for the 2025 summer
Our second-year cohort members, Emily Martin and Quillan Qian, attended the online Summer School PHYSIS offered by the School of Materialist Research (SMR) in Greece. The topic for this year … Read More
Milan Reynolds successfully defended his dissertation in February 2025!
An ending, a beginning, a ceremony, a defense… I was lucky to “defend” in the company of friends, family, colleagues, and a generous committee whose work inspires me. It was … Read More
Sneha Khaund defended her dissertation in March 2025 and now is Prof. Khaund!
The dissertation is a text that lives with one for so long that it is difficult to comprehend that indeed it has to someday come to an end. If only … Read More
Chen Xing attended the Harvard IWL Summer Program 2025
Our second-year cohort member, Chen Xing, attended the 15th summer program at the Institute for World Literature at Harvard University this July 2025. She presented her essay “A Realm of … Read More