Eun Jeong Choi
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
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.
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
Changyu Chen
Email: cc6842@nyu.edu
2020 Ph.D. Cohort
M.A. Peking University
Research Interests: modern Chinese literature, media and culture
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
Yifan Yu
Email: yy1678@nyu.edu
2019 M.A. Cohort
B.A. University of Michigan
Research interests: Post-colonial history of Asia-Pacific, including social movements, history, political science and political economy
Nancy Qiao Ji
Email: qj265@nyu.edu
2018 M.A. Cohort
B.A. New York University
Research interests: Modern and postsocialist Chinese literature and film, and especially incorporating critical theories and exploring the interiority of urban individuals with a philosophical approach.
Zijian Tan
Email: zijiantan@nyu.edu
2018 M.A. Cohort
B.A. New York University Shanghai
Research interests: 20th-century Chinese literature as well as Western literary criticism of the 19th and 20th century in general, with special focus on community and solitude, the origins of language and of morality, minor literature, and lyrical poetry and poetics
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
Carmen Herold
Email: ch4025@nyu.edu
2020 Non-Degree M.A. Cohort
Research Interests: Comparative history of ideas, cultural theory, Chinese pop culture and youth culture with a focus on electronic dance music, the image of China in the West
Cailtyn Chung
Email: cyc528@nyu.edu
2020 M.A. Cohort
B.A. Wellesley College
Research Interests: South Korean and Japanese postcolonial women's spaces, gender, and sexuality; indigenous religions, animism, and its relation to media culture, pop/youth culture, and commodification
Noah Mullenix
Email: noahm@nyu.edu
B.A./M.A. Cohort
B.A. New York University
Research interests: Translation, Translation in Media, English Language Adaptations of Japanese Media, Japanese Language Adaptations of US/Canadaian Media, Women's Labor in Post-World War II US, Japan, and Korea, The Nation as a Social Construct
David Zarowin
Email: daz259@nyu.edu
B.A./M.A. Cohort
B.A. New York University
Research interests: Japanese history and culture
Global Perspectives on Society Teaching Fellow at NYU Shanghai
Assistant Researcher in the Institute of Literature at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Assistant Professor of Japanese in the Department of Languages and Cultures at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte)
Assistant Professor of East Asian Art in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Institute for World Literatures and Cultures and Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Tsinghua Univers