After teaching at The Ohio State University and Georgia Institute of Technology, Wenbo Chang is a lecturer of Chinese language and literature in the Department of Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies at the University of Georgia. Her primary research area is premodern Chinese drama, its role as a potent intermediary between popular and elite cultures, and its intersection with ritual, power, gender, and cultural studies. Her research interests also include intellectual history, religious studies, and narrative of the strange. Besides her research, Wenbo is dedicated to Chinese language pedagogy and technology, with decade-long experience of teaching Chinese language at all proficiency levels. 

Selected Publications:

Guo Yingde, Wenbo Chang, Patricia Sieber and Xiaohui Zhang, ed. How To Read Chinese Drama in Chinese: A Language Companion. Columbia University Press (2023). 

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/how-to-read-chinese-drama-in-chinese/9780231209571 

Wenbo Chang. “Performing the Role of Playwright: Jia Zhongming’s sanqu Songs in the Supplement to The Register of Ghosts.” Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture, volume 8:1 (2021): 59-88.   

Abinash’s research focuses on the medieval and early modern Indian literatures, particularly the literary traditions in bhasa sahitya with a focus on the role of translation and Self-formation. He is also interested in the ways in which literature and religion interact through translation and performance traditions to produce stable identities in that period. More generally, he is interested in studying the ways in which the pre-modern world perceived and constructed the notion of ‘alterity’ by interrogating literary artifacts. Before beginning the doctoral journey, he worked as a freelance journalist and reported on the state of environmental and constitutional rights in India, and still continues to write widely in newspapers and magazines on matters related to relevance of religion and faith in the modern world.

Ali Ahsan studied his MA in Linguistics from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and MPhil in Comparative Literature from Ambedkar University Delhi. His MPhil thesis was on the role of minor languages in the making of literature in Southwest India and is titled, "Minor Literatures: Two Novels on the Bearys".

His areas of interest include anti-caste writings, comparative literature and religion, literatures of the sea, the craft of fiction, translation (practice), and theories of language. 

Dr. Alexander Fyfe received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and African Studies from the Pennsylvania State University in 2019. Prior to joining UGA, he taught at the American University of Beirut and the University of Edinburgh. While his primary focus is modern African literatures, he also teaches in the areas of postcolonial literatures, world literature, and critical theory.

Dr. Fyfe's research is concerned with the relations between politics and literary form in modern African literatures. His current book project argues that African writers have consistently used literature as a kind of decolonial practice. Writers such as diverse as Gabriel Okara, Bessie Head, Susan Kiguli, and Chwayita Ngamlana use a wide variety of literary forms to articulate new and politically expedient modes of existence, beyond the constraints of coloniality. In addition to his published articles, he has edited special issues of African identities and, with Rosemary Jolly, The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry. An essay volume entitled African Literatures as World Literatures, co-edited with Madhu Krishnan, will appear in October 2022 with Bloomsbury Academic Publishing.