Brenda Tan studies Marxist literary criticism, aesthetics, literary engagements with structures of debt, and the collective political potential of impersonal subjectivities in modernist and postcolonial world literatures.
Research Areas
Global modernisms, postcolonial literatures, Marxist literary theory, and aesthetics
Education
B.A. in English, Writing and Literature, and the History of Art and Architecture with an emphasis in Museum Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Honors & Awards
UCSB English Department - Outstanding Achievement as an English Major, 2021