current-phd-students

Angelo Wong

Angelo Wong

Field: Japanese Literature
Adviser: Tomi Suzuki
Angelo focuses on the intermixing of western and Chinese influences with Japanese literary tradition in the fiction of the Meiji period. His starting point is the works of Izumi Kyōka and Higuchi Ichiyō for the way they depict modern society while displaying heavy influences from classical Japanese literature. Before joining Columbia, he received a BA in English literature and in Japanese at the University of Hong Kong.

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Selina Wang

 

Selina Wang 王和

Field: Japanese Literature
Advisor: David Lurie and Haruo Shirane
Email: hw2687@columbia.edu

Selina is a PhD student in premodern Japanese literature. She focuses on the literary construction and development of humor in premodern East Asia, specifically how people invent and record humor through Literary Sinitic, kana systems, or a mixture of both. She treats humor as a creative crossover point between high and low culture, power hierarchies, and boundaries between wit and emotions. She is also interested in literary theory and the epistemological relationship between writing system and language in East Asia and is pursuing a graduate certificate in the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.

Selina received a B.A. in Comparative Literature and Society and Philosophy from Columbia University (2022), where she completed a senior thesis focusing on how humor transcended temporal and sociopolitical realities in Shishuo xinyu and Makura no sōshi.

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Jiaqi Wang

Jiaqi Wang

Field: Premodern Chinese Literature
Advisor: Wei Shang
Email: jw3983@columbia.edu

Jiaqi Wang is a PhD student of premodern Chinese literature. She is primarily interested in late imperial Chinese fiction, intellectual history, and cultural history. Her current project focuses on the popular publications, literary writings, and theatrical performances during the Ming-Qing transition to examine the dynamic relationships among media and investigate the political and historical significance of literary writings during the dynastic transition. Before joining the EALAC PhD program, Jiaqi received her B.A. in Chinese literature (2017) and M.A. in classical Chinese literature (2020) from Peking University, and M.A. in East Asian studies from Columbia University (2022). An abridged version of her M.A. thesis (2020) has been published in Chinese as “Shilun Honglou Meng de wenzhang jiegou (On the Compositional Transitions and Narrative Structure of The Story of the Stone)” in Honglou Meng xuekan (Studies on “A Dream of Red Mansions”), 2022(04).

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