Janet Louie is a Ph.D. candidate in East Asian Languages and Civilizations with a focus on Film and Media Studies and secondary field in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
Her interests lie in transnational approaches to East Asia particularly as they apply to intersections of race, gender, and sexuality. Her dissertation “Transpacific Sounds: A Study of Border-Crossing in Music and Sounds between Hong Kong, Japan, and Asian America” examines the interplay between Asian/Asian American immigration and popular culture flows during the Cold War era.
Janet earned an A.M. in Regional Studies East Asia from Harvard University and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with majors in Chinese and Japanese Language and Literature with a minor in the History of the Built Environment. She is currently an archivist for the Sing Lee Print Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.