FILM / GENDER / MEDIA
RESEARCH & WRITING
My research moves across film, gender, media, and cultural context, often asking how meaning changes across audiences, histories, and forms.
2026Gaze, Gender & Cinema
Feminist Cinema Across Cultural Contexts & Chinese Reception
Comparative Research
A comparative study of feminist cinema in the United States, France, and Hong Kong, attentive to distinct feminist histories, film form, the gaze, cultural context, and reception in China.
SUPERVISIONMentored by Dr. Kathryn Syssoyeva, PhD (Stanford), theater and film scholar.
Film FormFemale GazeCultural ContextChinese Reception
VIEW PAPER↗RELATED FILM → HOW WOMEN LOOKSummer 2026Gaze, Gender & Cinema
Cinema as the Third Interpreter
Cornell PreCollege — Philosophy & Film
A philosophy-and-film project on interpretation, recognition, misrecognition, gender, ethics, and film form, developed through Gaslight, The Philadelphia Story, and Little Women.
SUPERVISIONMentored by Dr. Timothy M. Kwiatek, PhD (Cornell), philosopher specializing in ethics and moral psychology.
InterpretationRecognitionMisrecognitionEthicsFilm Form
VIEW PAPER↗Fall 2025Gender Across Cultures
Feminisms in East Asia, 1900–Present
Cambridge Future Scholar Programme
Research on modern East Asian feminism in relation to imperialism, nationalism, modernization, and the media commodification of femininity.
SUPERVISIONMentored by Dr. Alice Baldock, DPhil (Oxford), scholar of gender, dance, and modern Japan.
East Asian FeminismImperialismNationalismModernizationMedia
Spring 2026Gender Across Cultures
Why the Gender Ideological Gap Is Widening
Research Paper
A research paper on the widening gender ideological gap.
SUPERVISIONIndependent Research
GenderPolitical IdeologySocial Change
VIEW PAPER↗Platforms, Media & Socialization
Summer 2026Platforms, Media & Socialization
Too Young for the Feed
Research in Progress
Research in progress on how global platforms participate in teenagers’ sexual socialization.
SUPERVISIONIndependent Research
Global PlatformsTeenagersSexual SocializationGenderPlatform Culture
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