Alexi Om

Comparative Literature

Biography

Alexi Om is a second-year undergraduate student from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, majoring in comparative literature. Her academic interests revolve around postcolonial literature and the contemporary impact of comfort women. In addition to being an Paterno Fellow and Schreyer Honors Scholar, she is doing a fellowship in the Children, Youth, and Media in International and Global Conflict Zones Lab supervised by professor Yael Warshel of the Rock Ethics Institute.