Research Fields:
Literature, media cultures, and technopolitics in Cold War and post-Cold War East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan)
Comparative media history and theory
Science, technology, and society (STS)
Sinophone studies; transpacific studies; Asian American studies
Postcolonialism and empire
Health humanities
Education:
Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Harvard University (in progress)
M.A. East Asian Studies, University of Alberta
Languages: Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin, Modern and Classical), Japanese, Korean, English, French (reading).
Articles:
Imperial Media Mix: Japan’s Failed Attempt at Asia’s First Transnational Girl Group
Drama Review: Squid Game: The Hall of Screens in the Age of Platform Cosmopolitanism
Mediated Temporalities: Tsushima Yūko’s and Kuo Chiang-sheng’s Japanese/American Passages to Taiwan
Founded as a graduate program in 1904 and joining with the undergraduate Literature Concentration in 2007, Harvard’s Department of Comparative Literature operates at the crossroads of multilingualism, literary study, and media history.
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