Shiamin Kwa, co-chair and professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and co-director of comparative literature, was recently a guest on the New Books Network podcast to discuss her book Perfect Copies: Reproduction and the Contemporary Comic.
The author of five books, Kwa's written work explores relationships between form and content, text and image, self and self-presentation, surface and depth, and the conflicts between what we say and what we mean. Her research interests include theater and fiction, food studies, graphic narratives, literary studies, cultural studies, comparative and world literature, and literary and narrative theory.