Yasheng She
Yasheng She
Postdoctoral Fellow in East Asian Cinema and Media Studies
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- Ph.D. in Film & Digital Media with a designated emphasis in Computational Media, University of California, Santa Cruz. 2024
- M.A. in Communication, Culture, & Technology, Georgetown University, 2017
- B.A. in Japanese Language and Literature & Psychology, The George Washington University, 2014
Courses
- FLEN 331 Japanese Anime
- Chinese
- Japanese
- English
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Chancellor's Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2023 – 2024
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Florence French Financial Aid Fund for Art, 2023
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Corday GROW Fellowship-PhD Fellowship, 2023
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Dean's Fellowship for Contributions to Student Success, 2021 – 2022
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The Social Science Research Council's Dissertation Proposal Development Program, 2020
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UCSC Sammy Award for work on Arts Student Success, 2020
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Graduate International Regents Fellowship, 2019
Yasheng She is a Postdoctoral Fellow at The Habib Institute for Asian Studies. Yasheng explores how public memories of historical events give culturally recognizable texture to (post)apocalyptic imaginations. Yasheng's work on gender, race, games, and visual culture can be found in peer-reviewed journals and edited collections.
- Media Studies
- Japanese Visual Culture
- Game Studies
- Cultural Studies
- Critical Theory
- Gender & Queer Studies
- Asian & Asian American Studies
Book Chapters
- She, Yasheng. “Designing the Global Body: Japan’s Postwar Modernity in Death Stranding.” In Made in Asia/America, edited by Tara Fickle and Christopher B. Patterson. Duke University Press, 2023.
- ———. “The Death of Aerith: Traumatic Femininity and Japan’s Postwar Modernity.” In The World of Final Fantasy VII: Essays on the Game and Its Legacy, edited by Jason C. Cash and Craig T. Olsen. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2023.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- She, Yasheng. “A Cure for Woundless Pain: Consumption of Innocence in Japanese Idol Culture.” Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 33, no. 1 (October 8, 2021). https://doi.org/10.1075/japc.00072.she.
- ———. “Melancholic Vortex and Postwar Pacifism in NieR: Automata.” REPLAYING JAPAN 2 (March 2020): 147–55. https://doi.org/10.34382/00013371.
- ———. “What Is Lost Moving from ‘Shanzhai’ to Global: On the Video Game Genshin Impact (2020).” ACAS, September 29, 2022. https://acas.world/2022/09/29/what-is-lost-moving-from-shanzhai-to-global-on-the-video-game-genshin-impact-2020/.
- She, Yasheng. “Finding the Post-Postwar Japan in Death Stranding’s Sublime Ruins.” In DiGRA ’23 – Proceedings of the 2023 DiGRA International Conference, 2023. https://dl.digra.org/index.php/dl/article/view/1910.
- ———. “Working Through Weightlessness in Postwar Japanese Tactical Wargames.” In DiGRA ’20 – Proceedings of the 2020 DiGRA International Conference: Play Everywhere, 2020. https://dl.digra.org/index.php/dl/article/view/1232.