Changyu Chen
Email: cc6842@nyu.edu
2020 Ph.D. Cohort
M.A. Peking University
Research Interests: modern Chinese literature, media and culture
Graduate Student Profiles
Email: ejc449@nyu.edu
2018 Ph.D. Cohort
M.A. Columbia University
M.A. University of Tokyo
Research interests: Film and media studies, visual studies, sound, urban studies, language, modernity, and colonialism, with a focus on Japan and Korea
Wan-Chun Huang
Email: wch302@nyu.edu
2018 Ph.D. Cohort
M.A. University of Pittsburgh
Research interests: China's television and screen culture
Hanbyul Jenny Kang
Email: hjk@nyu.edu
2022 Ph.D. Cohort
B.A./M.A. Northwestern University
Research Interests: 20th/21st century Korean literature, postcolonial studies, critical race theory.
Hannah Kwak
Email: yk2408@nyu.edu
2020 Ph.D. Cohort
B.A. Yale University
Research Interests: colonial-period Korean literature, national canon formation in post-war South Korea, reception studies, reading as an ethical practice
Chuxu Lu
Email: cl2330@nyu.edu
2021 PH.D. Cohort
M.A. Duke University
Research Interests: Modern Chinese literature and cultural history; film, animal, and gender studies; critical theories; modern Japanese literature and intellectual history
Kyle Nowak
Email: kan290@nyu.edu
2022 Ph.D. Cohort
B.A. Yonsei University
Research Interests: Queer Regional Studies
Ha Rim Park
Email: hp2351@nyu.edu
2021 PH.D. Cohort
M.A. Seoul National University
Research interests: Contemporary Korean literature, Popular culture and Korean society, Comics, Webtoon, K-drama, Young generation, Social movements in Korea, SF writings and visual culture, Posthumanism
Eimi Tagore-Erwin
Email: ete226@nyu.edu
2019 Ph.D. Cohort
M.A. Lund University
Research interests: Contemporary Japanese art (21st century), with a focus on post-disaster shifts, social and political engagement, postcolonial legacies, activism, and censorship
Peter Yoon
Email: jy1320@nyu.edu
2019 Ph.D. Cohort
M.A. University of Chicago
Research interests: Christianity in colonial and post-colonial Korea, secularism, modern Korean literature and films, diaspora studies, critical and critical race theory.
Emma Renee Burleigh
Email: erb9144@nyu.edu
2022 M.A. Cohort
B.A. College of William and Mary
Research Interests: Journalism & East Asian Studies
Erin Dandia
Email: emd9452@nyu.edu
2022 M.A. Cohort
B.A. Queens College, CUNY
B.A. Binghamton University, SUNY
Research Interests: early 20th century Korean and Japanese literature, gender and queer studies, comparative literature, genre and subgenres in fiction, interculturality, hybrid identities, discourse on identity formation.
Tristan Finazzo
Email: taf9871@nyu.edu
2022 M.A. Cohort
B.A. University of Chicago
Research Interests: Journalistic intersections of art, culture, travel, and media in East Asia
Xiao Han
Email: xh2197@nyu.edu
2022 M.A. Cohort
B.A. Xi'an Jiaotong University
Research interests: East Asian Films; Contemporary Chinese Literature; Japanese Manga; Mass Culture and Subculture in China and Japan
Yuqin He
Email: yh4337@nyu.edu
2022 M.A. Cohort
B.A. Beijing Normal University
Research interests: Modern Chinese Literature, Intellectual History after 1980s, Science Fiction
Eri Kim
Email: ak4884@nyu.edu
2019 M.A. Cohort
B.A. New York University
Research interests: East Asian literature; modern Korean history; post-colonialism and modernity in Korean literature; gender, race, and sexuality in modern Korea and East Asia
Dinghua Li
Email: dl4699@nyu.edu
2022 M.A. Cohort
B.A. Connecticut College
Michelle Lin
Email: mxl209@nyu.edu
2022 M.A. CohortB.A. McGill University
Research Interests: Chinese trauma literature, cultural politics, and propaganda in Mao and Xi era.
Email: ss16511@nyu.edu
2022 M.A. Cohort
B.A. in Korean Language & Culture from Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Research Interests: Contemporary Korean literature and visual culture; intermedial aesthetics; narratology; reader-response theory; Korea and India relations; division/partition literature; webtoons and manhwa; diaspora
Ruizhen (Jenny) Xu
Email: rx2129@nyu.edu
2022 M.A. Cohort
B.A. Mount Holyoke College
Research Interests: China (specific direction undetermined)
Cal Zou
Email: calzou@outlook.com
2019 M.A. Cohort
M.A. Sun Yat-Sen University
B.A. Sun Yat-Sen University
Research Interests: Modernity and literature in modern China; Space and human geography; Chinese historical documents; world literature
Victor Galov
Email: vvg234@nyu.edu
2020 B.A./M.A. Cohort
Grad Spotlight
Roslynn Ang
Global Perspectives on Society Teaching Fellow at NYU Shanghai
Jun Xie
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Institute for World Literatures and Cultures and Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Tsinghua Univers
Phil Kaffen
Assistant Professor of Japanese in the Department of Languages and Cultures at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte)
Liu Zhou
Assistant Researcher in the Institute of Literature at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Jennifer Dorothy Lee
Assistant Professor of East Asian Art in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago