Xinyi Zhao (趙心怡)

Xinyi Zhao is a doctoral candidate in Japanese cinema and media; she is also pursuing a graduate certificate through the Center for Comparative Media. Xinyi’s dissertation delves into the history of cinema in Manchuria through the lenses of race/ethnicity, media archaeology, and feminist historiography. This project has been supported by Japan Foundation Dissertation Fellowship and Donald Keene Research Grant in Japanese Studies. Her other scholarly works can be found in Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Dangdai Dianying (Contemporary Cinema), Humanities, Women Film Pioneers Project, and Routledge Companion to Queer Theory and Modernism (forthcoming). 

Prior to the PhD program, Xinyi received her M.A. in Film and Media Studies from Columbia University, M.A. in Chinese Studies from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Joint B.A. in Economics and Japanese from Shanghai International Studies University.