Miya Qiong Xie PhD ’17 was awarded the MLA Prize for a First Book for Territorializing Manchuria: The Transnational Frontier and Literatures of East Asia, published by the Harvard University Asia Center.
New York, NY – 10 December 2024 – The Modern Language Association of America today announced it is awarding its thirty-first annual Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book to two recipients. Miya Qiong Xie, associate professor of Chinese and comparative East Asian literature at Dartmouth College, is receiving the award for Territorializing Manchuria: The Transnational Frontier and Literatures of East Asia, published by the Harvard University Asia Center. Published in 2023, Territorializing Manchuria was also awarded the First Book Award by Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
Prof. Xie also recently published Chinese Literature across the Borderlands in special issue of Prism, Theory and Modern Chinese Literature (18:2, 2021), co-edited with David Der-wei Wang and Kyle Shernuk.
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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