Janet Louie

Ph.D. Candidate in East Asian Arts/Film/Cultural Studies
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janet_louie@g.harvard.edu

Janet Louie is a Ph.D. candidate in East Asian Languages and Civilizations with a focus on Film and Media Studies at Harvard University. Her interests lie in transnational approaches to East Asia particularly as they apply to intersections of race, gender, and sexuality. Her dissertation “Transpacific Sounds: A Study of Border-Crossing in Music and Sounds between Hong Kong, Japan, and Asian America” examines the interplay between Asian/Asian American immigration and popular culture flows during the Cold War era. 

In 2018, Janet earned an A.M. in Regional Studies East Asia from Harvard with a thesis on homoerotic adaptations of Western films and TV in Japanese and Taiwanese fan-made comics. Prior, she received her B.A. from UC Berkeley with a double major in Chinese and Japanese as well as a minor in Architecture History in 2015.

Janet is also invested in work utilizing alternative archives and the preservation of Asian American media. She has worked in film curation and preservation at UCLA's Film & Television Archive.