academic

education

PhD Pre-Candidate in Communication and Media
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
2023 – Present

Master of Arts, Communication and Culture
Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada
2020 – 2022

Bachelor of Arts, Honours English with distinction
Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada
2013 – 2017

presentations

(Forthcoming) Girl-instrument: Posthumanism, producers, and Japanese pop music. Conference presentation at International Association for the Study of Popular Music-Canada. University of Saskatchewan, Regina, Canada.

Machinations of Art: Understanding East Asian Female Pop Music within Western Authenticity. Conference presentation at Pop Conference, Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York, United States.

Instrumentalizing Girlhood: Vocal Representations of Youth and Femininity in East Asian Popular Music. Conference presentation at Intersections Cross-Sections, Ryerson University and York University, Toronto, Ontario.

Interrogating Authenticity: Understanding East Asian Female Pop Music in the Western Cultural Sphere. Invited talk at the English Department of Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario.

Social and Cultural Change at Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare & Company. Symposium presentation at Curating Social Change: Graduate Symposium on Exhibition, Curation and Literature Culture, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario.

Queering Patriarchy: Diva Worship, Orientation, and ‘Straight’ Lines. Conference presentation at Digital (Im)materialities, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec.

Aesthetics Tied to Identity: Adichie’s osmosis of punctuation and postcolonial concerns. Poster session presented at Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Toronto, Ontario.

6IN. Digital presentation for the Fabuludus Arcade open event at Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Toronto, Ontario.

Aesthetics Tied to Identity: Adichie’s osmosis of punctuation and postcolonial concerns.Paper presented orally at ARTeries Undergraduate Conference, Toronto, Ontario.

awards and distinctions

Canada Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral, Social Science and Humanities Research Council (2023-Present)
Fulbright Canada Student Award (2023-2024)
Canada Graduate Scholarship-Masters, Social Science and Humanities Research Council (2021-2022)
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2020)
English Discovery Grant, Ryerson University (2017)
Faculty of Arts Student Projects Grant, Ryerson University (2017)
Kiki Maniatakos Memorial Scholarship, Ryerson University (2016)
Academic Achievement Award, Ryerson University (2016, 2017)
Dean’s List, Ryerson University (2014-2017)
Entrance Scholarship, Ryerson University (2013-2016)