Alina Scotti

Alina Scotti is a PhD Candidate in East Asian Arts, Film, and Cultural Studies, where she specializes in the history of media, technology, and visual culture in modern China. Her dissertation examines changes in visual and textual modes of representation in Chinese print media in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The project illuminates shifts in perceptions of printing as a mechanism for cultural connection during the transition from woodblock to industrial, mechanized print technologies. Prior to Harvard, she received a MSt in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Oxford and an A.B. with honors in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Art History from the University of Chicago.