Butler School of Music
Qifang Hu
Graduate student
Interests: My primary research interests are in the realm of East Asian music studies; Chinese, Japanese, and Korean music with multidisciplinary approaches. I also interested in popular music, media studies and world music ensemble pedagogy.
Department of Sociology
Rui Jie Peng
Graduate student
Education: MA, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Sociology
Interests: Political sociology, labor, gender, migration, development, global & transnational sociology, ethnography Contemporary China, global China
Program in Comparative Literature
Nanjun Zhou
Graduate student
Education: BA in English; Master in Comparative Literature, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Free University of Berlin
Interests: Transition from Romanticism to Modernism, German and British Romanticism, Rainer Maria Rilke, translation and introduction of German Romanticism and Modernism in China, Boxer Movement
Department of Anthropology
nel yang
Graduate student
Education: PhD in Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Economic and financial anthropology, semiotics of desire, users and user experience (as field site and field of research), affect, eroticism, Hong Kong, Taiwan.
Department of Asian Studies
Zachary Adamz
PhD Candidate, Asian Cultures & Languages
Education: B.S. Geography, Brigham Young University; M.A. Geography, University of Kansas
Interests: Korean Studies; Migration and Diaspora Studies; Geographies of Territorialization and Nationalism; Tourism and Museology
Katheryn Bolton
Graduate student
Education: MA in Sociology, Ewha Womans University
Interests: Korean diaspora, return migration, hierarchical nationhood, ethnic enclaves, expatriate communities, identity formation, Hallyu and cultural globalization
Michelle Chen
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Languages in Sinophone cinemas, Sinophone cultures and literatures
Ssu-Chieh Fan
Graduate student
Education: M.A. in Translation and Interpretation, National Taiwan University
Interests: Cultural production in contemporary East Asia, with an emphasis on the intersections between Sinophone literature, film, and globalization.
Enrique Guerrero
Graduate student
Education: Masters of Arts in Asian Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: China studies, Global media, policy, and Tech.
Jean Young Kim
PhD Candidate, Asian Cultures & Languages
Education: M.A. in Geography Education, Seoul National University
Interests: infertility/subfertility, hope, neoliberal governmentality, biopolitics, Assisted Reproductive Technologies(ARTs), politics of reproduction, (ultra) low fertility in East Asia, everyday geographies
Michael Kuehl
PhD Student in Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Contemporary Japanese literature, Translation, Literary analysis, Trauma studies, Psychoanalytic theory, Gender studies, Mourning and Suicide.
Catherine Lajara
Graduate student
Education: M.A.,Asian Studies- Korean, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Korean Language; Suicide in South Korea: the causes, the population it affects, resolution; gender issues in South Korean Media
Jia Liu
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Education: PhD, Asian Studies
Interests: Modern Chinese literature, mass media and cultural institution.
Jeffery McElroy
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Literary and cultural studies, with an emphasis on modern Chinese cinema, globalization, and post-colonial studies.
Jenny Myung
Graduate student
Education: B.A., International Relations and Global Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Yunfei Shang
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Japanese cinema, Chinese language cinemas, East Asia film and media industry, visual culture studies
Lauren Slusher
Master's student, Asian Studies and Global Policy Studies
Education: BBA in Business Honors and Management pre-law, Texas A&M University
Interests: I’m interested in working for the United States Foreign Commercial Service to promote trade between the United States and Asia, with an emphasis on trade promotion with the People’s Republic of China
Shu-Wen Tang
PhD candidate
Education: B.A. in Political Science, National Taiwan University, M.A. in Taiwanese Literature, National Chengchi University
Interests: Literary and cultural studies, with an emphasis on Taiwan and Post-Socialist China
XIAOTING WANG
Graduate student
Education: Bachelor, Peking University
Interests: Chinese film and literature
Caleb Williams
Master's student, Asian Studies
Education: B.A., Chinese Language and Literature, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Chinese Folklore Studies
Department of History
Shery Chanis
Graduate student
Education: M.A. (History), University of South Florida
Interests: Early Modern China (Ming Dynasty), South China, Guangdong, cartography, global history
Jian Gao 高堅
Graduate student
Education: BA, MA, MA, ABD, UA / UT
Interests: Modern Mexican History, Chinese Diaspora, Transnational / Immigration History, Latin American History, Asian American Studies, Latin America in a Globalizing World, U.S. West,
Fei Guo
Graduate student
Interests: Modern and contemporary China, state-building, economic history, ethnicity under Chinese context, East Asia, python, NLP, and ML.
Department of Radio-Television-Film
Hyun Jung Stephany Noh
Ph.D. candidate
Interests: My research interests mainly focus on the continuity and changes of media production and distribution as the media environment is quickly shifting towards internet streaming. I investigate the cultural implications of the transnational phenomenon by researching the context of television programs, their global audiences, and the industry practices that are forming the global media of today. My current dissertation project is on the development of South Korea's SVOD market in reaction to Netflix.
Jing Wang
Graduate student
Education: B.A. in Photojournalism and M.A. in Radio and Television Arts, Communication University of China, in Beijing
Interests: My dissertation project is on the transnational circulation of Chinese Independent Documentaries from 1990s to 2017. This research situates at the intersections of Chinese film studies, media globalization, media industry studies, film festival studies and documentary studies.
Department of Religious Studies
Quan Gan 甘佺
Graduate student
Education: BBA Economics Hong Kong Baptist University, MA Medieval and Renaissance Studies University College of Londonv
Interests: rituals and places of commemoration funerary rites and monuments relics and ascetics the interaction between regional cult-making and trans-regional state-making sacred kingship monasticism
