Doctoral Candidate in History
About
My dissertation, tentatively titled "Fascist Dreams, Private Interests: German Film in China, 1931-1945" looks at the German film industry's activities in China during the late Weimar and Third Reich. This transnational project brings German, German-Jewish, Chinese, and Japanese subjects into conversation, with a particular emphasis on bridging the historiographies of modern Germany and modern China. I am working under the supervision of Scott Spector, Pär Cassel, Johannes von Moltke, and Markus Nornes.
Before coming to UM, I worked at 艺术界 LEAP, China's contemporary art magazine, and was editor for the exhibition Cosmopolis #1.5. Before that, I completed my M.A. at the University of Toronto, working in the areas of modern German history and Holocaust studies under the supervision of Doris Bergen.
I apply my historical interests to film projects. In 2024, I completed After Nature, a short documentary on the Japanese postwar architecture movement known as Metabolism (supported by a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts).
Courses Taught
- WN 2023 | Modern East Asia (Asian/History 205)
- WN 2023 | Graduate Pedagogy I - Preparing to Teach (History 808)
- FA 2022 | War, Rebellion and Revolution in China (Asian/History 354)
- WN 2022 | Modern East Asia (Asian/History 205)
- FA 2021 | Europe in the Era of Total War (History 318)
