Miya Qiong Xie (Ph.D. 2017) was recently awarded the 2024 Modern Language Association Prize for First Book for her monograph Territorializing Manchuria: The Transnational Frontier and Literatures of East Asia (Harvard University Asia Center, 2023).

In their announcement, the MLA states: "Offering original contributions to postcolonial studies, border studies, translation studies, modernist studies, and literary multilingualism, Territorializing Manchuria ambitiously calls for a new comparative approach that attends equally to the national, transnational, spatial, and temporal dimensions of literature." The full MLA citation can be read here.

Advised by Prof. Karen Thornber, Dr. Xie completed her dissertation on "The Poetics and Politics of the Borderland: Manchuria and Transnational East Asian Literature" and received her Ph.D. from the Department of Comparative Literature in 2017. During her time at Harvard, she was supported by the Reischauer Institute for both research and language study. She is now an Associate Professor of Chinese and Comparative East Asian Literature at Dartmouth College.