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October 30, 2025 | By Chen Xing | Dissertation Defense

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

October 16, 2025 | By Chen Xing | Academic activities

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

October 9, 2025 | By Chen Xing | Dissertation Defense

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

October 9, 2025 | By Chen Xing | Academic activities

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

September 30, 2025 | By Chen Xing | Dissertation Defense

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

September 30, 2025 | By Chen Xing | Dissertation Defense

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

September 26, 2025 | By Chen Xing | Academic activities

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