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Ting-An Lin
Postdoctoral Scholar, Philosophy
BioTing-An Lin is an Interdisciplinary Ethics Postdoctoral Fellow at the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, with a partnership affiliation with the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI).
Before joining Stanford, she earned her PhD in philosophy from Rutgers University, where she also received a Graduate Certificate in women's and gender studies.
Her research interests lie at the intersection of ethics, political philosophy, and feminist philosophy, with a particular focus on how new forms of technology (such as AI) shape social structures and impose constraints on different groups of people. -
Brittany (the Symsis) Linus
Undergraduate, African and African American Studies
Undergraduate, EnglishBioBrittany Linus is a Nigerian-American UI designer, digital humanities scholar, and pleasure-activist. She believes self-care—even in the smallest form of a smile—is activism. Currently, Linus is completing a a creative honors thesis in collaboration with the Department of African and African American Studies (DAAAS) and the Institute for the Diversity in the Arts (IDA).
Her thesis investigates how the digital phenomenon of Black modding, which is the deliberate integration of Black aesthetics in video games, is pleasure activism. Through her exploration, Black modding emerges as a liberatory act based in the reclamation of pleasure that oppression attempts to erase. By countering virtual Black erasure with using Black aesthetics that were blended and coded into existence for video gameplay, Black video game players become pleasure activists in self-determined ways with a common goal of feeling good. -
Bingxiao Liu
Ph.D. Student in Chinese, admitted Autumn 2020
BioBingxiao Liu is a Ph.D. student in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University. Her research interests include premodern Chinese literature, cultural and intellectual history; gender and sexuality; emotions, literary and political culture. Her research examines how emotions are invoked or invented to constitute interpersonal ties in 3rd - 6th century China. Working with official histories, commentaries, inscriptions, and literary works, her project explores the reconceptualization of identity and community in emotive terms and the signification of emotion as the legitimizing basis for a new social order in medieval China.
