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Lin Du

March 16, 2018, 2:51 pm
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Chinese Language and Culture

Lin DU is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She received her B.A. in Chinese Literature from Peking University, and her M.A. in Regional Studies East Asia from Harvard University. Her research interests include modern and contemporary Chinese photography, cinema, art, and literature in Mao era and post-Mao era.

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Yiyang Hou

March 16, 2018, 2:55 pm
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Chinese Language and Culture

Yiyang Hou received his BA in Sociology, and Cinema and Cultural Studies from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and MA in Film and Media Studies from Columbia University in the City of New York. Currently, he is a doctoral student of East Asian cinema and media studies at UCLA. Intersecting Film Studies, Sociology and East Asian Studies, his research focuses on the material history of Chinese cinema in relation to architecture, urban development, and technological integration.

Working as a dedicated translator of Film Studies, Yiyang has translated and published John Anderson’s Edward Yang (2013) and Laura Mulvey’s Citizen Kane (2014) in China. In addition, his translation of Arthur De Vany’s Hollywood Economics, Thomas Elsaesser’s Metropolis, and The French New Wave: Critical Landmarks will soon be published through Peking University Press.

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Ellie Tse

November 21, 2018, 11:12 am
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Cultural and Comparative Studies – China focus

Ellie Tse is a Ph.D student in Cultural and Comparative Studies with a Focus on China. She holds a B.A. with Distinction in Visual & Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her research concerns modern and contemporary cultural production across Sinophone contexts. She is currently looking at transnational and transtemporal visual resistances, problems of site and specificity, and the aesthetics and politics of language.

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Jonathan Feuer

November 21, 2018, 11:16 am
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Buddhist Studies

Jonathan Feuer is a Ph.D. student in Korean Buddhist Studies. He received his M.A. in Religious Studies from Rutgers University, and his B.A. in English from Manhattan College. His master’s thesis, The Making of Wŏnhyo: Religious Modernization in Early Modern Korea, looked at the modernization of Korean Buddhism and its relationship with Korean Christianity during the Japanese colonial period. His current research continues looking at Buddhism in modern Korea’s religious and political discourse.  

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Mathieu Berbiguier

November 21, 2018, 11:23 am
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Cultural and Comparative Studies – Korea Focus

Mathieu Berbiguier is a Ph. D. student in Korean Cultural Studies. He received an MA from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (South Korea), and a BA from University Paris Diderot (France), both in Korean Studies. His research interests revolve around Korean Popular Culture and its expansion around the world (the Korean Wave) with a particular focus on the fandoms of K-pop (Korean and Foreign).

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Kun Xian Shen

November 21, 2018, 11:30 am
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Cultural and Comparative Studies – China Focus

Before coming to UCLA, Kun Xian Shen received a MA in Foreign Languages and Literatures from National Taiwan University with a graduate thesis on the films of Burmese Chinese director Midi Z (Zhao De-yin). Prior to that, he had also studied as an exchange student at UC Berkeley for a year with the support of the Study Abroad Programme for Future Scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences, funded by the Ministry of Education and Academia Sinica in Taiwan.

At UCLA, he hopes to develop his research interests at the intersection between Sinophone studies, Taiwan studies, as well as film and media studies. Specifically, he attempts to push at the borders of these fields by considering the materiality, mediation, and networks of Sinophone media cultures, including sound and popular music, film festivals, and languages in cinema. His experience as a frequent contributor to the film review journal Funscreen (in Chinese) published by Taiwan Film Institute continues to support his passion for films.

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Wanmeng Li

February 14, 2019, 9:34 am
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Wanmeng Li is a Ph.D. candidate from the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She received an MA from UCLA, and a BA from Tsinghua University (China). Her field of study is Chinese premodern literature, and her research interest focuses on the interactive relationship between premodern Chinese literature and Daoism. Her dissertation probes about Daoism’s impact on writings by Song and Yuan dynasties’ literati-officials. Based on the close analysis of such literary works, she aims to study the mutual influence between the contemporary elite class and Daoist society. In the meantime, she intends to exam the way in which literati’s visits to Daoist sites and spaces, including Daoist temples and auspicious lands, empowered such a cultural exchange.

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Ariel Chan

September 16, 2019, 2:52 pm
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Chinese Linguistics

Ariel Chan is a Ph.D. student in East Asian Linguistics. She received her two M.A.s in Linguistics from McGill University and University of Hong Kong respectively. Her research interests include heritage language acquisition, second language acquisition, language use in political discourse, and socio-pragmatics of grammatical particles in the Sinitic languages (Cantonese in particular).

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Tom Newhall

September 30, 2019, 9:26 am
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Buddhist Studies

Thomas (Tom) Newhall is a PhD Student in Buddhist studies. Before coming to UCLA, he studied at the University of Tokyo (Japan, MA 2016), Fo Guang University (Taiwan, MA 2012), and Oberlin College (Ohio, BA 2007). His research focuses on how Buddhist law codes were interpreted and adapted for Buddhist monastic life in China, and East Asia more broadly, focusing on the works of the monk Daoxuan (596-667) and the so-called Vinaya School. Tom lives in LA with his wife and daughter.

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Suong Thai

January 28, 2020, 10:20 am
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Suong Thai is a PhD student in Cultural and Comparative Studies – Japan Focus. She received a BA in Literature from University of Social Sciences and Humanities, HCMC (Vietnam), and an MA in Asian Studies from Leiden University (the Netherlands). Her research focuses on comparing feminine sexuality in modern Vietnamese and Japanese women’s literatures, exploring the representations of women’s sexuality as a literary language to define individual, cultural and national identities. Her general interests also include (post/de)colonialism, psychoanalysis, gender and sexuality.

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Victoria Davis

January 28, 2020, 10:36 am
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Victoria Davis is a Ph.D. student of early modern Japanese theater and literature. She received a B.A. in Political Science and International Relations from Elon University (2009) and an M.A. in East Asian Languages and Cultures from the University of Southern California (2019). Her research focuses on early modern spatial imaginaries in performance and print media.

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Minseung Kim

January 28, 2020, 10:46 am
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Minseung Kim is a Ph.D. student in Modern Korean Literature. She received her B.A. (2014) in Korean Linguistics and Literature from Sungkyunkwan University in Korea, M.A. (2016) in East Asian Studies from Sungkyunkwan University, and M.A. (2019) in East Asian Studies from Washington University in St. Louis. Her recent research focuses on the Sino-Korean relationship in colonial Korea. By analyzing Yi Tongkok’s translation of the Chinese authors Liang Shuming, Hu Shi, and Chen Duxiu, she, in her first Master’s thesis, asserted that colonial Korean intellectuals in the early 1920s reconsidered Japanese intellectual hegemony by referring to cultural and political reform in China. Continuing on that interest in her second Master’s thesis, she centered on the stories by Chu Yosŏp, Sim Hun, and Kim Kwangju and examined how Korean exiles in China shaped their masculine identities by working as national leaders while avoiding Japanese imperialism. Joining in the ALC program at UCLA, she continues looking at literary history, translation, colonial modernity, and colonial masculinity in the Japanese colonial period in Korea.

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Victoria Caudle

January 29, 2020, 4:14 pm
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Victoria Caudle is a PhD student in Modern Korean Literature. She received a BA honors in Korean from SOAS, University of London, an MA in Korean Language and Literature focusing on Modern Korean Literature from Seoul National University, and an MA in Literary Translation from the University of East Anglia. She also graduated from the Literature Translation Institute of Korea’s Translation Academy and attended translation courses in their Special Section. Her previous research as been on Identity construction/curation by New Women in Korea during the 1920s and 30s, and on methods for translating Queer subjects in Korean science fiction literature into English. As part of her studies at UCLA, Victoria is researching the changes in understanding of race and ethnicity in Korea and how this is reflected in the multi-ethnic and mixed-race characters found in the Korean language literature.

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Deborah Price

February 4, 2020, 9:47 am
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Debbie received her BA in Japanese and MA in Asian Languages and Cultures from UCLA in 2013. Receiving two MEXT scholarships, she pursued further Japanese language and academic training in Japan, culminating in a second MA from Gakushuin Women’s College in Tokyo in 2018. Since returning to UCLA for her PhD that same year, Debbie’s research centers on conceptualizations of space as propagated in and through Heian court literature.

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Kristin Schreiner

February 6, 2020, 10:42 am
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Kristin Schreiner has previously received a BA in Japanese Language and Literature from Wellesley College and a MA from the East Asian Languages and Cultures department at Columbia University. Her research focuses on postwar Japanese literature, particularly Occupation period texts and the figure of panpan girls in literature. She is generally interested in questions of gender and sexuality.

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Kanako Mabuchi

November 17, 2021, 8:30 am
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Kanako Mabuchi is a PhD student in Japanese Literary and Cultural Studies. She completed her BA at the International Christian University and MA in Culture and Representation at the University of Tokyo. Her research interests include Japan’s postwar avant-garde art, media ecology, and translation theory. She hopes to explore the ways in which visual media and technology defines the relationship between humans and non-humans with respect to the East Asian experience of modernity. 

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Pow Camacho-Lemus

November 17, 2021, 8:31 am
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Pow Camacho-Lemus is a Ph.D. student in the UCLA department of Asian Languages and Cultures under Buddhist Studies. Before continuing at UCLA, they received their BA at Cornell University in Asian Studies and Religious Studies, and later an MA in East Asian Studies at UCLA. Their research interests include post-disaster religious processes in Japan, anti-nuclear clerical activism, and gender in Buddhist Studies.

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Charlotte Pu

November 17, 2021, 8:33 am
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Charlotte Pu is a PhD student specializing in modern Chinese literature and media culture. She is broadly concerned with the intersection between media production, circulation, urban spatiality, and class formation in modern China. Her previous research focused on how urban ruination, shifting between the material and the spectral, functions as a space of mourning, documentation, and emergent reinventions in the post-socialist Chinese mediascape. In her doctoral studies, she aims to further investigate the transgressive potentiality of polyphonous media practice at moments of historical rupture. Her other research interests include contemporary East Asian televisual and digital culture, fan economy, and its consequent production of popular intimacies.

Prior to joining UCLA, she received her B.A. and M.A. in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University, and has worked in Beijing as a reporter and media researcher.

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Hyowon Park

November 17, 2021, 8:35 am
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I am a Ph.D. student in modern Korean literature. I am broadly interested in examining the entangled relationships between a) literary and cultural production, b) spaces, technologies, and infrastructures of modernity, c) ethnonationalist state building, and d) the Cold War geopolitics in the context of South Korea from the 1960s to 1970s under Park Chung Hee’s authoritarian regime. My current project focuses on investigating how the Park regime’s construction of monumental infrastructures (e.g. expressways) figure as an important theme in the foregrounds and backgrounds of South Korean literary texts in this period, and how these literary narratives accommodate, diverge from, and/or challenge the state’s mater narrative which promotes these infrastructures as the symbols of South Korea’s modernization, industrialization, and nation-building.

Before joining the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA, I received an M.A. in East Asian Studies (2021) from Indiana University Bloomington as well as an M.A. in English Literature (2016) and B.A.’s in Korean and English (2013) from Yonsei University, Seoul.

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David Yang

November 17, 2021, 8:36 am
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David Yang is a Ph.D. student in Modern Japanese Literature. He received a B.A. in German Literature and Cultural History from Columbia University (2017), and an M.A. in East Asian Studies from UCLA (2020). His research focuses on questions of language, script, and translation, as well as the persistence of the premodern in modern literature.

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