Bio


Anthony Comeau is a first year PhD student in Stanford's Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. His research interests broadly include political thought and its history and comparative literature. Anthony is particularly interested in the themes of love, education, and humanism in the comparative reception of canonical philosophers, theologians, and novelists in the modern Sinosphere, West, and Hispanosphere.

Education & Certifications


  • A.M., Harvard University, Regional Studies East Asia (2024)
  • B.A., New York University Shanghai, Political Science (2019)

All Publications


  • Love, Law, and Leninism: Same-Sex Marriage and the Politics of Subjectivity in China vs. Cuba Comparative Political Theory Comeau, A. M. 2025: 25-73