Comparative Literature

Tianren Luo is a first-year PhD student in the Department of Comparative Literature. In the broadest sense, he is interested in exploring how capitalism, technology, and forms of cultural representations intersect in the present historical conjuncture. More specifically, his future work will focus on the infrastructure of financial capitalism, with particular attention on its entanglement with existing global (neo)colonial and extractivist matrix. Building on this foundation, Tianren aims to investigate how financial infrastructures influence and shape prevailing imaginaries of the future. He also seeks to expand insights from critical finance studies to non-Euro-American contexts. Beyond academia, he is an activist and artist as well, collaborating with a team of artists and data scientists in Shanghai on a transmedia art project that examines the use of data visualization techniques in the stock market.

Education:

B.A. in Philosophy (with highest distinction), Fudan University, 2024

Languages:

English, Mandarin Chinese, French, Japanese