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.

Gaze, Gender & Cinema

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
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Summer 2026Gaze, Gender & Cinema

Cinema as the Third Interpreter

Cornell Philosophy and Film course pageCornell Philosophy and Film enrollment record

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
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Gender Across Cultures

Fall 2025Gender Across Cultures

Feminisms in East Asia, 1900–Present

Cambridge Future Scholar certificate for 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
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Platforms, Media & Socialization

Summer 2026Platforms, Media & Socialization

Too Young for the Feed

Harvard International Review Academic Writing Contest Gold Medal certificate

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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