PhD Student
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Aesthetics
- Queer theory
- Post-colonialism/Decolonization
- Modern/Contemporary
- East Asian
- Diaspora
Areas of Interest
- Modern and contemporary Chinese art and visual culture
- Sinophone studies
- Modern and contemporary Asian North American art
- Contemporary East Asian and Southeast Asian art
- Theories of gender and sexuality
- Performance studies
Working Dissertation
Supervisors
Yi Gu
Biography
Selected Publications
- “Distance of Ambivalence in Persona Performance: How Tseng Kwong Chi Appropriates the Mao Suit.” Rutgers Art Review, vol. 40, 2024. Forthcoming.
- “Two Comparative Studies: Repositioning the Work of Antoni Starczewski.” University of the Arts Poznań: Zeszyty Artystyczne, no. 39, 2021.
- “Book Review: Maud Lavin, Yang Ling, and Zhao Jing Jamie, eds. 2017. Boy’s Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols: Queer Fan Cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Hong Kong University Press.” Concordia University: Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, 2020, pp. 132–136.
- “Robert Adams.” Material Meanings: Selections from the Constance R. Caplan Collection, edited by Matthew S. Witkovsky, Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University Press, 2020, pp. 30–33.
Honours, Awards and Grants
- Fall 2023 School of Graduate Studies Conference Grant, University of Toronto
- Fall 2023 Doctoral Research and Conference Travel Grant, Department of Art History, University of Toronto
- 2023–2024 Mark Gayn Graduate Scholarship, University of Toronto
- 2022–Present Connaught International Scholarship for Doctoral Students, University of Toronto
- 2022 Leonore V. Kinghorn Scholarship, University of Toronto
- 2017–19 New Artist Society Scholar, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Professional Affiliations
- 2023–Present Universities Art Association of Canada
Education
MA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019
BA, Colby College, 2016
Presentations
"Exhibition of 'Chinese Female Artists,' Permeating Sounds, and Transnational Cosmopolitanism: Wu Mali at Half of the Sky in Bonn, Germany," Sinophone Europe: Exploring Cultural Expressions and Identities, University of Florence, 13–14 December 2024.
“A Diasporic Artist’s Performance of Passing: Dissecting Tseng Kwong Chi’s Appropriation of the Mao Suit.” Translating Home: Views from the Diaspora, the 12th Annual Rutgers Art History Graduate Student Symposium, Rutgers University, 22 April 2022.
“Not Tongzhi: The Dialectic between Chinese Photographer Ren Hang and the “Chinese Homosexual.” Narratives of (Il)legibility in East Asia, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 5 May 2018.
“Not Tongzhi: The Dialectic between Chinese Photographer Ren Hang and the “Chinese Homosexual.” The Ohio University Graduate Student Art History Symposium, Ohio University, 5 April 2018.
Administrative Service
Film Talks Co-Organizer, The Fantastical and the Real: 2023 East Asian Film Talks, 2023
Speaker Series Co-Organizer, Domestic art galleries in Cuba, Russia, and China after 1989: a(n) (imagined) trans-socialist network, 2023
Co-Editor-in-Chief, The Wollesen: University of Toronto Art Journal, 2022–24
Symposium Co-Organizer, Contretemps: The 10th Annual Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium, University of Toronto, 2022–23
Symposium Co-Organizer and Panelist, Reminiscing/Reinventing Graduate Conference, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018
Co-Founding Board Member, Museum Student Advisory Board, Colby College Museum of Art, 2014–2016
Cohort
- 2022-2023