About
Background, education, and research interests.
My research draws on ethnography, cultural criticism, and archival work to examine how popular music circulates as both pleasure and politics. I am especially interested in queer listening publics, Mandarin-language pop histories, and the afterlives of Cold War media infrastructures in contemporary East Asia.
Alongside academic writing, I maintain notes on concerts, playlists, and the small archives of fan culture that rarely enter formal scholarly record.
Education
- 2023–presentPh.D. in Sociology, Graduate School of Sociology, Rikkyo University, Tokyo
- 2019–2023M.A. in Sociology, [Previous Institution]
- 2015–2019B.A. in Sociology, [Previous Institution]
Affiliations
- Graduate School of Sociology, Rikkyo University
- Association for Taiwan Literature (member)
Research interests
- Popular music & sound studies
- Queer theory & LGBTQ+ cultures
- Cross-Strait cultural politics
- Fandom & digital media
- East Asian media history