Ph.D. Alumna Tianyun Hua honored by the ACLA!

Congratulations to Tianyun Hua for being honored by the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)!

Tianyun Hua graduated from UC Davis with a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in Spring 2025. Her dissertation “Coolie Crossings: Transnational Labor Migration and Sinophone Literature, 1900-1949” received an honorable mention from the American Comparative Literature Association for the 2026 Charles Bernheimer Award for the Best Dissertation nominated by a department or program.  Her dissertation committee was chaired by Professor Emerita Xiaomei Chen.  Congratulations to Tianyun!

About the ACLA 

The American Comparative Literature Association, founded in 1960, is the principal learned society in the United States for scholars whose work involves several literatures and cultures as well as the premises of cross-cultural literary study itself.

In its largest sense, comparative literature promotes the study of intercultural relations that cross national boundaries, multicultural relations within a particular society, and the interactions between literature and other forms of human activity, including the arts, the sciences, philosophy, and cultural artifacts of all kinds.