Over the course of the 1970s and early 1980s, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha created a small body of art and writing celebrated in Asian American culture for its embrace of difficulty. Her best-known project, the experimental text Dictee (1982), contains an unpredictable mix of forms—catechism, letter, biography, schoolbook—and images ranging from anatomy charts and Paleolithic cave art to brush calligraphy by Cha’s father.
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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