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Sarah Lam

Sarah is originally from Southern California where she earned her BA in Critical Gender Studies from UC San Diego. During her BA she produced a thesis on topics of Japan, gender, motherhood, and personhood. Being mixed-race, she finds great interest in the intersection of Japanese and Western culture. Her research interests exist in the realms of gender, sexuality, feminist, and mixed-race studies between Japan and America. In the future Sarah hopes to continue working with these topics in a PhD program.

Contact: smaple@uoregon.edu

 


Sophia Lewis

Sophia received her BA in English Literature from Western Washington University in 2020. During her undergrad, she also studied at Chukyo University in Nagoya, Japan and received a minor in Japanese.
Her research is focused on 20th century Japanese literature, particularly the works of authors such as Natsume Sōseki and Kawabata Yasunari that deal with topics of modernity, identity, and angst. Her academic interests also include Japanese Buddhism, continental philosophy, European avant-garde literature, gender studies, and critical theory.”

Contact: slewis9@uoregon.edu


Shengying Mei

Shengying Mei received her B.A. in Chinese Literature and Language from Fudan University, Shanghai, China. At the University of Glasgow, she pursued her passion in Comparative Literature. Last summer, she went to Taiwan Fu-Jen Catholic University to learn Latin.

She finds great passion in ancient Chinese philology, philosophy and Western Philosophy theories, especially in the branch of philosophy of language. Her goal in academic research involves being part of a dialogue or finding possibilities to construct a dialogue where eastern culture and western culture meet in the modern time.

Contact:  shengyin@uoregon.edu


Kourtney Scrivani

Kourtney earned her bachelor’s degree in both Japanese and Anthropology at the University of Oregon. In her B.A., she studied Japanese culture and language, and studied abroad at Senshu University. Her research interests are fandoms deriving from Japanese pop culture, and how the globalization of Japanese media led to these ever-expanding fandoms. She has a passion for anime, manga and conventions, and has volunteered for large anime conventions for many years.

Kourtney hopes to use this lifelong passion to fuel her research. Aside from her studies, she enjoys movies, reading, and creative writing.  She is currently working as a Graduate Employee for the East Asian Languages and Literature Department.

Contact: kscrivan@uoregon.edu


Shuxi Wu

Shuxi Wu

Shuxi is from Guangzhou, China and obtained her BA in anthropology, Asian studies, economics and global studies at the University of Oregon. Her research interests are digital platform and infrastructure studies, critical internet and algorithm studies, and the Chinese cyberspace.

Contact: shuxiw@uoregon.edu

 

 

 

 


Jiayi Yan

“Hi, I am Jiayi Yan. As a graduate student in East Asian Studies, my main research focus is Chinese philosophy, especially ancient Chinese philosophy. At the same time, for the purpose of comprehensive understanding of Chinese philosophy, I am also deeply interested in Modern Neo-Confucianism, as well as many philosophers such as Wang Yangming.

My profession plan is to study for a Ph.D. on Chinese philosophy, and then get access to a university to engage in philosophical research and teaching. I really like to communicate with people interested in philosophy!”

Contact: jyan8@uoregon.edu


Tianheng Zhang

Tianheng writes: “Hello, my name is Tianheng Zhang. I received a B.A. in history from University of Minnesota and now I am a graduate student in Asian Studies. My main research focus is international relationship among Eastern countries in Cold War era, especially the cultural influences to younger generations in China, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation afterward during early 1990s till now. I am also interested in the ideologies and attitudes among scholars in the United States toward to Asian topics.

I will make use of all the passions and knowledge to the future study. Hopefully I could pursue the career in a related area after graduate. Aside from my studies, I enjoy road trip, sports shooting, historical reenactment and antique collecting.”

Contact: tzhang8@uoregon.edu