Anna Dai

Field: Japanese Literature
Advisor: Tomi Suzuki, Haruo Shirane
Email: kd2657@columbia.edu

Anna is a doctoral candidate in modern Japanese literature and media studies. Her dissertation, titled “Verdant Thought: Vegetal Form and the Ecological Vision in Japanese Literary Modernity, 1900s-1920s”, examines how literary texts, plant-centered phenomenology, visual media, and ecological theory intersect as interwoven forces in the emergence of modern Japanese literature. She received her M.A. in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art (London), with a focus on the Aesthetic Movement, and her B.A. from UCLA.