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Brenda Tan

Brenda Tan

Graduate Student

Department of English and Creative Writing

CONTACT

bt35@rice.edu

Brenda studies Anglophone African and Afro-Caribbean literature, third-world Marxisms, peripheral modernism, postcolonial theory, and critical race theory. Her research adopts formalist and Marxist approaches to literary studies. 

PUBLICATIONS

“Racial Conscription and Its Limits: Antinomies of Race in Teju Cole’s Open City and Tremor,” Contemporary African Novelists in America, themed issue, Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies (Autumn 2025), https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/jgps/article/view/2727.

Research Areas

Anglophone Caribbean and African literature; third world Marxisms; peripheral modernism; postcolonial theory; anticolonial/postcolonial literature; critical race theory

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

Rice University—Shirley Rapoport Graduate Essay Prize, 2025

UCSB English Department—Outstanding Achievement as an English Major, 2021

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