Written by Comp Lit concentrator, Seoeun Choi: During her lecture, best-selling Chinese American fantasy author and translator Rebecca Kuang addressed the themes of mimicry, a practice where colonizers force colonies to take up the colonizer’s language, and the ambivalence of colonial discourse. “There’s something very sad about this mimicry … but it can also be an insurgent act,” she said. “Mimicry radically revalues the priority of race, writing and history. It deauthorizes the colonizer.”

“What I Am Thinking About Now” is an informal workshop/seminar series where faculty and advanced students present recently published works and works in progress for early-stage feedback and development.

Lucas Joshi, who has deferred matriculation in the Ph.D. in Comparative Literature to the fall of 2023, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to support a year of research in Goa.

For the first time since Spring of 2019, the Comparative Literature Department will hold its Commencement Diploma Ceremony in-person for the class of 2022.

Comp Lit senior concentrators may choose to do an honors thesis. Most students require two semesters to plan and complete an Honors Thesis, which is usually between 50 and 100 pages long.

Comparative Literature PhD student, Baoli Yang, will deliver a presentation at the Brown Grad School's "Research Matters" event. Baoli's research primarily focuses on medieval Sinoscript literature and its modern repercussions, manuscript culture, Chinese poetics, empire studies, and Silk Road studies.

In the April 8th issue of the Brown Daily Herald, Comp Lit professor, Arnold Weinstein, had a letter published entitled, “The Case for Studying Literature at Brown”.

Much like today, the elite society of Japan's Heian era (794–1185 CE) was saturated with dimly glowing screens. In their case, the screens were standing folding screens (byōbu) sumptuously decorated with painted illustrations and calligraphed poetry.

Comparative Literature graduating senior, Benjamin Connor, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to France for 2022-2023.