Alice joined King's in 2023, following her first academic appointment at Duke Kunshan University. She received her PhD and MA from Harvard University.

Research interests and PhD supervision

Alice’s current book project explores Chinese-Turkish literary relations in the first half of the twentieth century, situating them within the networks of solidarity and cosmopolitan practices that formed across new and emerging nations during this period.

More broadly, her work is driven by questions such as: What special affordances does literature offer for the expression of new cultural identities and political relations? In what ways can understudied transnational literary networks help re-frame the history of the twentieth century?

She is happy to discuss PhD proposals relating to any of her research areas:

• Literature and diplomacy
• Solidarity and world literature
• Translation and world/comparative literature

• Inter-Asian connections and comparisons
• International modernism

Teaching

Alice teaches on a range of comparative and world literature modules, and has additional teaching experience in the medical humanities and liberal arts.

Expertise and public engagement

Alice has translated contemporary poetry from Chinese into English for Paper Republic and Chinese Literature and Thought Today, and welcomes translation proposals for Chinese texts that are not yet available in English.

She currently serves as Managing Editor for the Journal of World Literature.

Selected Publications 

“Poetry and the Production of Solidarity: Nazım Hikmet in Beijing, ‘Asiafrica', and World Literature,” forthcoming in Comparative Literature, 2025.

“Creative diplomacy in Constantinople: Virginia Woolf and Kang Youwei,” forthcoming in Diplomatica: A Journal of Diplomacy and Society, 2024.

‘What is the Tao?’ in “Beyond the Imitation Game: Collaborative benchmark for measuring and extrapolating the capabilities of language models” [co-authored], Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2023.

“Re-worlding the Mona Lisa: Nazım Hikmet’s Modernist Diplomacy,” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 41: 2, 2018, p. 1-22.

“‘When Ordinary Seeing Fails’: Reclaiming the Art of Documentary in Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1972 China Film ‘Chung Kuo’”, Senses of Cinema, issue 67, 2013.