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Writer, researcher, and artist working in film and sound.
Born in Alberta, Canada
Education
2020-Present PhD, History University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
2009-2010 MA, History University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
2004-2008 BA Honors, History University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Publications
2024
“Ein deutscher Abenteuerfilm im japanisch-besetzten China: Was ostasiatische Quellen über die Rezeption von Alarm in Peking (1937) verraten [A German Adventure Film in Japanese-occupied China: What East Asian Sources Tell us About the Reception of Alarm in Peking].” Filmblatt 29, no. 84 (June 2024).
2018
“Going Outside at NanHai Art: The Solitary Landscapes of He Kunlin and Tong Yi Xin.” Art Practical. October 2, 2018.
2014
“Also Like Life: The Films of Hou Hsiao-Hsien.” 艺术界 LEAP 30. November/December, 2014.
Presentations and Exhibitions
2024
Presentation of paper - “Export Film, Export Fascism: Chinese Intellectuals, German-Japanese Cinema, and the Making of a Wartime Cultural Imaginary (1932-1938)” at the 2024 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference. Seattle, Washington, USA. March 15, 2024.
2023
Presentation of paper - "Imperial Displacements, Transnational Spaces of the Fascist Imaginary: Reading the Reception of Two Nazi Films in China” at the 2023 Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities. Stanford, California, USA. April 22, 2023.
Guest lecture - “The Japanese Empire and the Pacific War” in the course “Modern Asia” by Pär Cassel. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. March 13, 2023.
2022
Presentation of paper - “Loyal Spirits, Modern Times: City War Memorials of Japanese Manchuria (1932-1945)” at “Disinheriting the Past, Democratizing the Present,” a graduate student workshop at the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. October 7, 2022.
Guest lecture - “Towards the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere” in the course “Modern Asia” by Yi-Li Wu. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. March 14, 2022
2021
Guest lecture - “Cinematic Time and the Postwar” in the fine arts studio course “Methods and Concepts: Time-Related Practices” by Yixin Tong. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. October 25, 2021
2015
Public lecture - “Spontaneous Order: Examining the Unplanned in the Chinese City” at the Canadian Center for Architecture, Montréal, Canada. January 15, 2015
2010
Presentation of paper - "Münchhausen (1943) and the Phantasmagoria of Nazi Imperialism” at “Crossing the Line: Boundaries and Borders in History,” the Sixth Annual Graduate History Symposium at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. February 5, 2010
Awards
2024 Berlin Program Dissertation Fellowship (accepted), Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany
DAAD One-Year Grant for Doctoral Candidates (relinquished), Government of Germany
2023 Orla B. Taylor Scholarship (research in Berlin, Germany)
Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant (research in Tokyo, Japan)
2021 Rackham Language Training Award (Chinese)
2019 Research and Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts .
2016 Huayu Enrichment Scholarship, Republic of China (Taiwan) Ministry of Education
2005-2007 Jason Lang Scholarship, Government of Alberta, Canada
Teaching
2021 – 2023 Graduate Student Instructor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Winter 2023 “Modern East Asia” by Pär Cassel “Preparing to Teach - Graduate Pedagogy I” by John Carson
Fall 2022 “War, Rebellion, and Revolution in China” by Pär Cassel
Winter 2022 “Modern East Asia” by Yi-Li Wu
Fall 2021 “Europe in the Era of Total War” by Kathleen Wroblewski