Ruyu Yang is a master student from the major Teaching Asian Languages. She completed an undergraduate degree in Educational Studies and East Asian Studies at Colby College. She is currently interested in implications of increasing linguistic and cultural diversity on second language education.
The post Ruyu Yang appeared first on Asian Languages & Cultures Department - UCLA.
Yee Rem Kim is a PhD student in Modern Korean History. She received her B.A. in International Studies from Yonsei University (Seoul, 2018). She completed her M.A. at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, 2021). Her research interests lie in the social and cultural history of the Korean diaspora, more commonly known as Koryo saram, from the early 20th century until post-Korean War period. Her work focuses on tracing the history of their movement across borders and political culture while engaging with politics of race. Her interactions with Koryo-in communities in Kyiv, Ukraine throughout her childhood have helped her formulate her research project.
The post Yee Rem Kim appeared first on Asian Languages & Cultures Department - UCLA.
Shuyi Wang received her B.A, in Asian Languages and Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her research interests focus on East Asian Linguistics, East Asian Language Pedagogy, and also K-16 language teaching and education.
The post Shuyi Wang appeared first on Asian Languages & Cultures Department - UCLA.
Kazuhiko (Kaz) Imai is a Ph.D. student in Japanese Literary and Cultural Studies. He received a B.A. (2014) in Liberal Arts from Soka University of America, and an M.A. (2020) in Asian Studies from University of British Columbia. His research focuses on Heian court literature, particularly representations of gender in late-Heian monogatari works. His M.A. thesis analyzes Torikaebaya monogatari (The Changelings), a late-Heian court tale about a half-sister and half-brother whose gendered roles get switched when they are a child. He is also an avid tennis player.
The post Kazuhiko Imai appeared first on Asian Languages & Cultures Department - UCLA.
Richard is a PhD student in early modern Korean history. He initially received an AB in biology at Dartmouth College before switching career paths by studying history at Simon Fraser University, and then completing an MPhil in Traditional East Asia at the University of Oxford (2020). After researching the Chosŏn state’s epidemic management in the 17th and 18th centuries in his MPhil thesis, he is now looking to research the medical culture of late Chosŏn period and examine how it fits within the wider intellectual, sociocultural, and material context of early modern East Asia.
The post Richard Y. Kim appeared first on Asian Languages & Cultures Department - UCLA.
Yuki Nagamine entered the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures after earning an M.A. in Japanese Literature from Waseda University (Japan) and a B.A in liberal arts from Soka University of America. He is interested in the inquiry into human subjectivity in postwar Japanese literature examined through an ecocritical perspective, exploring how nonhuman matter participates in the constitution of subjectivity; and reconfiguring the anthropocentric ontology of human kind.
The post Yuki Nakamichi appeared first on Asian Languages & Cultures Department - UCLA.
Yi Liu is a PhD student in Chinese Language and Culture. She received her BA in Film and Media Studies from the College of William and Mary, and MA in Humanities from The University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the intermediality between poetry and cinema in Chinese cinema history.
The post Yi Liu appeared first on Asian Languages & Cultures Department - UCLA.
Zelin Min is a PhD student specializing in Japanese cinema and media. His master’s thesis considers the representations of urban spaces in Shōchiku Kamata’s films during the period from 1924 to 1936 and explores the mutual construction between cinema and urban culture in the Kantō region during post-earthquake, pre-war Japan. At UCLA, he plans to further his research on the cultural history of Japanese cinema with attention to questions on cinema and urbanism, spectatorship, transmedia practices, etc. Beyond Japanese cinema, Zelin is also interested in Critical Theory, (Post-) Cold-war Studies, and Screwball Comedy.
Prior to joining UCLA, Zelin finished his BA (2018) and MA (2021) in China and worked as a screenwriter in Beijing. His academic and public experiences also include journal articles (in Chinese), translations (from English/Japanese to Chinese), film festivals (including BJIFF, PYIFF, ISFVF, and ShPFF).
The post Zelin Min appeared first on Asian Languages & Cultures Department - UCLA.
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.
The post Charlotte Pu appeared first on Asian Languages & Cultures Department - UCLA.
Hanbeom Jung is a PhD student in East Asian Linguistics. He received his B.A and M.A at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. From the functional linguistic perspective, he explores how verbal and nonverbal expressions intertwine with one another and what kind of cognitive mechanisms lie in. He mainly focuses on Jejueo, one of the endangered East Asian languages, as well as Modern Korean and Modern Japanese.
The post Hanbeom Jung appeared first on Asian Languages & Cultures Department - UCLA.
Quentin Tan is a Ph.D. student of East Asian cultural and media studies at UCLA. He received his BA in the College of Letters and College of East Asian Studies from Wesleyan University. His current project focuses on the commodification of Chinese identity and belonging through the mobility of capital and visual technologies, while his broader research interests include translational activism, critical theory, and contemporary cultural productions in the Sinophone world.
The post Quentin Tan appeared first on Asian Languages & Cultures Department - UCLA.
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.
The post Hyowon Park appeared first on Asian Languages & Cultures Department - UCLA.
Chih-hen Chang is a Ph.D. student of East Asian literary and cultural studies at UCLA. He received his B.A. in History from National Taiwan University and an M.A. in Comparative Literary Studies from Utrecht University. Chih-hen studies contemporary Sinophone and Chinese literature, film, and visual art through the lens of cultural memory studies, trauma theory, affect studies, and perpetrator studies. His current project investigates diverse forms of memory media to understand how the societies of post-martial law Taiwan and post-Mao China come to terms with their history of violence and complicity. The project aims to reconsider the “woundedness” of each post-violent society by drawing particular attention to the articulations of moral injury, shame, and guilt in their respective contexts.
The post Chih-hen Chang appeared first on Asian Languages & Cultures Department - UCLA.