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...
Hwei Ru Ong received his MPhil in Buddhist Studies from the University of Oxford, where he worked on a critical edition of medieval Chinese Buddhist texts about Indian royalty. He is interested in reading commentarial literature (presently, that of the...
Mari Kishi is a queer film and media scholar from Japan. They received their BA in Law from Kyoto University and their MA in Film and Media Studies from New Sorbonne University (Paris 3), where they wrote their thesis on the star persona of Japanese...
William Julian’s work concerns the changes in perceptions and portrayals of the northwest (西北) during the Republican Period. He seeks to locate these sources not only within broader Chinese discourses on borderlands, but also within their global context...
Charlotte is a PhD student in History and EALC, focusing on the social and environmental history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Japan. Her dissertation project looks at the development of capitalism in Japan from the perspective of the nomadic...
Sujin Elisa Han is a PhD candidate in History and East Asian Languages. She is currently working on her dissertation, which traces the history of the pharmaceutical market in South Korea to examine changing conceptions and aesthetics of health. Sujin has...
Guttorm Norberg Gundersen received his MPhil in East Asian Culture and History from the University of Oslo in his native country of Norway in 2017, where he wrote about Māra in Tiantai Zhiyi’s instructions on meditation. He is interested in traditions of...
SangJae Lee studied Korean history in Seoul National University, with a focus on intellectual history of Chosŏn dynasty. His interest lies from the mid-nineteenth century to early twentieth century, the period which usually being defined as ‘transitional...
