Congratulations to Mai Nguyen, Comp Lit ‘24, for winning a Bowdoin Prize for Undergraduate Essay in the English Language for her essay entitled “Language in a Loop: Literature(s) of Vietnamese Diasporic Identity.”
The Bowdoin Prizes, some of Harvard’s oldest and most prestigious student awards, are designed to recognize essays of originality and high literary merit, written in a way that engages both specialists and non-specialists.
Congratulations again to Mai for her wonderful accomplishments, we’re so happy for Mai and her mentors!
Founded as a graduate program in 1904 and joining with the undergraduate Literature Concentration in 2007, Harvard’s Department of Comparative Literature operates at the crossroads of multilingualism, literary study, and media history.
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