Sarah Babcock recently defended her dissertation in East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. Her dissertation is titled, “The Aesthetics of Non-Discrimination: Chinese Poetics and Social Critique in Huihong’s Night Chats from Chilly Hut (c. 1121)”.

Sean Kerr recently defended his dissertation in South and Southeast Asian Studies at University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation is titled, “The Literary Abhidhamma Text: Anuruddha’s “Manual of Defining Mind and Matter” (nāmarūpapariccheda) and the Production of Pali Commentarial Literature in South India”.

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