Alison Le

Alison Le is a humanities major interested in postcolonial theory, identity-formation, and Soviet and post-war visual culture. They study the lingering presence of memory and generational trauma in postcolonial and imperialist art under the ruling of the British Empire, France, and Italy. Alongside this focus on literature and theory, Alison is also an oil painter, and creates subversive representations of literary women or giant portraits of their friends. Alison speaks Vietnamese and Italian, and will continue their language, literary, and art studies at The University of Bologna during the spring of their junior year.

Outside of the classroom, Alison has worked in the Ancient Greek and American Art curatorial departments at The Yale University Art Gallery and Metropolitan Museum of Art respectively, and is a poetry reader for The Yale Review.

You can find them at film screenings, the Pedals on State Street sipping on a mango smoothie, or on their kindle reading Clarice Lispector, Hanif Abdurraqib, or Dostoyevsky.

Department: Humanities