Asian Language Placement Tests for Fall 2022

Placement tests for Asian languages will be held during office hours the first week of classes. If you are interested in taking a Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Vietnamese language class in the fall and need a placement test, you can contact the following instructors to set up an appointment.

Chinese Language 1000-2000 classes, please contact Zhiwen Hu at zh47446@uga.edu . For Chinese Language 3000-4000 classes, please contact Anqi Liu at anqi.liu@uga.edu

**Please contact Dr. Karin Myhre for information on CHNS 4110/6110 at kmyhre@uga.edu

Ali Ahsan

Graduate Program, Teaching Assistant

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. 

 

Alexander Fyfe

Assistant Professor
Graduate Coordinator

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.

Selected Publications:

African Literatures as World Literature, co-edited with Madhu Krishnan. Bloomsbury Academic Publishing. 2022.

 

"Infrastructure and the Valences of the Literary in Fiston Mwanza Mujila's Tram 83." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. Pre-published online, print forthcoming 2022.

 

“‘Reading and Writing... Loudly’: Ikhide R. Ikheloa, Online Criticism, and African Literary Studies.” Social Dynamics. 47.1, 2021, 154-171.


 

“Marxism and African Literary Studies Today.” African Identities 18.1-2, 2020, 1-17.

 

“The Archival Politics of the Postcolonial Special Collection: A Case Study in Literary Value and Amos Tutuola.” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 50.2-3, 2019, 137-161.

 

“Wealth in Fiction: Animism, Capitalism, and Ben Okri’s The Famished Road Trilogy.” The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 5.3, 2018, 318-337.

 

“The Textual Politics of the Land in the Writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa.” Research in African Literatures 48.4, 2017, 78-93.

 

“Universalism and the Specificity of the Literary in Frantz Fanon’s ‘On National Culture’”. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 19.6, 2017, 764-780

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards

The Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies Department is proud to announce three recipients of the Outstanding Teacher Assistant Award. These recipients are Zhiwen Hu, Amanda Tipton, and Subhraleena Deka.

The Center for Teaching and Learning administers this award, sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Instruction, and it recognizes teaching assistants who demonstrate superior teaching skills while serving in the classroom. Congratulations to Zhiwen, Amanda and Subhraleena.

 

Departmental Statement On The Current Situation Surrounding People Of Asian Descent In The USA

The Department of Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies extends support to members of our student body and community who have been impacted by the recent wave of hate crimes against people of Asian descent in the United States. Over the past year, we have seen how the country's long history of xenophobia against Asian and Asian Americans was given new guise under false perceptions and rhetoric regarding the COVID-19 pandemic as well as how racism could easily become coupled with misogyny and classism.

Comparative Literature Student Awarded 2021 Presidential Award of Excellence

The Comparative Literature Department is pleased to announce that Benjamin A. Houser has been selected to receive the 2021 Presidential Award of Excellence. This award is given to undergraduate students in their final year of study who have demonstrated outstanding academic achievement, strong extracurricular involvement, and/or service to and involvement in their respective school or college. Students selected for this award exemplify the best of UGA's undergraduate student body.

Congratulations to Benjamin Houser!!! 

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