School of Humanities and Sciences
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Russell Patrick Burge
Ph.D. Student in History, admitted Autumn 2013
BioField: East Asia
Research Interests: Development and social change in South Korea; decolonization and the Korean War; urban history; colonial and postcolonial memory
B.A. in Art History, Minor in Political Science, UCLA
A.M. in Regional Studies East Asia, Harvard University
Russell Burge is a PhD candidate in the History Department at Stanford University focusing on the history of modern Korea. His dissertation examines social change and economic development in South Korea during the Park Chung Hee period (1961-1979), at the height of the Cold War. His other interests include the history of decolonization in East Asia, the Korean War, and the global proliferation of rock music.
Russell's master's thesis in Harvard's Regional Studies East Asia program focused on historical memory and the museumification of Sǒdaemun Prison, a detention facility that was famously used by various regimes throughout Korea's twentieth century. This thesis was awarded the Harvard RSEA program's Joseph Fletcher Memorial Award in 2013. -
Jeffery Chen
Ph.D. Student in History, admitted Autumn 2018
Student Employee, Hoover InstitutionBioI am a Ph.D. candidate in history at Stanford University. I completed my first graduate degree, an MSt. in British and European History, at the University of Oxford. Broadly, my research focusses on cross-cultural encounters between Qing China and eighteenth-century Europe and on the commercial networks linking the two regions.
Outside of academia, I enjoy composing, playing piano and chamber music, and creative writing. -
Gabriel Ellis
Ph.D. Student in Music, admitted Autumn 2017
BioGabriel Ellis is a musicology PhD student at Stanford University. His current research focuses on intersections between music, technology, and identity in contemporary popular (and unpopular) genres. He has presented research at the Midwest Chapter Meeting of the American Musicological Association and at the Music and Visual Cultures International Conference in Maynooth, Ireland.
Before coming to Stanford, Gabriel earned a Bachelor of Arts in Music at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. He moonlights infrequently as a countertenor. -
Linda Galvane
Ph.D. Student in Japanese, admitted Autumn 2012
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe aim of my dissertation is to elucidate the significance of scatological representations in modern and contemporary Japanese literature, tracing their lineage in both canonical and non-canonical works from the 1930s until the post-bubble era. I focus on representations of scatology that are specifically related to sexuality -- which have been disregarded as a narrow and meaningless subset of perverse desire – as they appear in the aesthetic realm.
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Melissa Hosek
Ph.D. Student in Chinese, admitted Autumn 2015
BioMelissa Hosek is a PhD student specializing in modern Chinese literature. Her research interests include science fiction, aesthetics, nationalism, environmental humanities, and the digital humanities.
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Mei Li Inouye
Ph.D. Student in Chinese, admitted Autumn 2013
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsHer interests include modern and contemporary Chinese literature, film, dance, theater, and visual culture. Her research explores transnational exchanges and appropriations, genre and media boundary crossings and transformations, and the mediating and critical role of memory in modern and post-socialist Chinese literature and film.
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Yue Jiang
Master of Arts Student in Chinese, admitted Autumn 2017
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsLegal History of Late Imperial China
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Johannes Michael Junge Ruhland
Ph.D. Student in French, admitted Autumn 2018
BioJohannes took a BA in French and Latin Languages and Literatures at the University of Geneva and earned his MA in French Literature and Culture at King’s College London as the 2017-2018 Sévigné Studentship recipient. He joined the department of French and Italian at Stanford in 2018 to complete his doctoral studies.
Johannes is interested in poetics, philology, and metacommentary, with a particular focus on questions of ‘truth’ and ‘fiction’. He has worked on the effects of irony on generic consensus in Old French Arthurian verse romance, Diderot’s use of mystification for a formative project (J. Landy), manuscript evidence of authorship representation in Old Occitan chansonniers, and Jameson’s and Auerbach’s interpretive strategies. In his MA dissertation, he studied the poetics of truth in MS London, BL Add. 15268 (Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César), examining the manuscript’s textual politics and reconsidering the philological tools with which variance is discussed. The notion and the stakes of collectivity have become central to his concerns.
Johannes' PhD thesis will deal with the critical narrative of the emergence of fiction in 12th-century Old French romance and offer a theoretical and manuscript-based re-evaluation.
For a list of publications, please visit https://stanford.academia.edu/JohannesJungeRuhland
Keywords: Collectivity, formative fiction, hermeneutics, historicism, irony, new approaches to manuscript variance, non-intended readership, philology, poetics. -
Maciej Kurzynski
Ph.D. Student in Chinese, admitted Autumn 2017
BioMaciej Kurzynski is a Ph.D. student majoring in Chinese. He received a Bachelor’s degree in History of Art from the University of Warsaw, Poland, and a Master’s degree in Literary Theory from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. His current research focuses on the relationship between aesthetic theory, literature, and freedom in modern China.
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Whitney Legge
Master of Fine Arts Student, Documentary Film and Video
BioWhitney Legge grew up in a small town on the coast of Maine and after graduating high school relocated to Guatemala to develop photography programs for at-risk youths. In 2008, Whitney was accepted to the San Francisco Art Institute where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Photography and honored with the John Collier Humanitarian Award. After graduation Whitney helped organize and lead DocuPhoto a public lecture series with acclaimed documentary photographers and filmmakers. She works for The Asia Foundation producing documentary short films. Whitney’s personal photography and films explores themes of family, identity, and social issues such as immigration and poverty.
