Doctoral Student in Asian Languages and Cultures
About
I study contemporary Chinese-language film, television, and literature, with a focus on textual engagements with multilingualism and its impact on how a sense of place is transmitted among people. My work focuses on Hong Kong, but I am also interested in comparisons with Taiwan, mainland China, and other parts of East Asia. I also look at how reception of media shifts across time and borders; my 2021 Film Quarterly article, “Pixels, Police and Batons: Hong Kong Cinema, Digital Media, the 2019 Protests, and Beyond,” examines the impact of online videos from the 2019 Hong Kong protests on the longstanding cops-and-robbers genre.
I am a proponent of making the learning of Sinitic languages more accessible, especially when it comes to less commonly taught varieties. I co-host the podcast Chatty Cantonese with Raymond Pai (University of British Columbia), which features interviews with students, teachers, and researchers of Cantonese, and through my website CantoBlog, I try to connect prospective learners of Cantonese with various study tools.
Languages (other than English):
- Mandarin
- Cantonese
- Taiwanese Hokkien
- Korean
- Japanese
- German
