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 is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies at the University of Georgia, Athens. His research explores theories of mysticism with a particular focus on Christian and Hindu mystical traditions in South Asia between the 16th and 18th centuries. Centering his inquiry on the region of Odisha, he examines how devotees in both traditions articulated their spiritual experiences and negotiated their religious identities through their self-representation.

His broader research interests include autobiography studies and literary historiography, through which he investigates how individual and collective narratives of devotion are constructed, archived, and interpreted. He is also critically engaged with how colonial, orientalist, and Western epistemologies have shaped the reception, representation, and circulation of mystical texts and traditions.

Working across Hindi, Odia, Bangla, and Sanskrit, he  brings a multilingual and interdisciplinary approach to his study, contributing to broader conversations in comparative mysticism, theology, and intercultural religious studies.

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 book, Writing the Noncolonial Self: Modern African Literatures and the Politics of Subjectivity, is forthcoming with the University of Virginia Press in 2026. The manuscript received the Helen Tartar First Book Subvention Award from the American Comparative Literature Association in 2025. His articles have appeared in College Literature, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, and elsewhere. He has edited special issues of African identities (2020), The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry (2018, with Rosemary Jolly), and Comparative Literature Studies (2025, with Rosemary Jolly. With Madhu Krishnan, he co-edited the volume African Literatures as World Literatures (2022, Bloomsbury Academic Publishing).