I have included a selection of my papers and *creative coursework at Harvard, specifically the ones which are individual work, of substantial length, and graded A. Happy reading!

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Spring 2019

AI 47 – Forbidden Romance in Modern China – David Der-wei Wang

• *(Paper 1) “A Girl Called Chastity”: my fictional retelling of Ding Ling’s When I Was in Xia Village
• *(Paper 2) A screenplay adaptation of Yu Hua’s Classical Romance
• *(Final Paper) “Classic Romance” 《经典爱情》: a creative retelling of Yu Hua’s Classical Romance and Wang Xiaobo’s The Golden Age

Hist-Lit 97 Sophomore Tutorial – Cultures of U.S. Imperialism – Ellen Song & Mark Sanchez

• (Sophomore Essay) Reimagining Chineseness: Class, Capitalism, and Mobility in Crazy Rich Asians

Philosophy 136 – Phenomenology of Lived Experience – Samantha Matherne

• (Midterm 1) Husserl on Why Phenomenology is Not Psychology
• (Midterm 2) Merleau-Ponty and the Case of Schneider
• (Final Paper) Beauvoir & Fanon: On Othering

Philosophy 33 – Ethical Issues in Social, Cultural, and Artistic Representation – Emilio Mora

• (Short Essay) On Matthes’ Moral Injunctions against Cultural Appropriation
• (Final Paper) Subject Appropriation in Fiction

Fall 2018

English 188gf – Global Fictions – Kelly Rich

• (Paper 1) Close Reading of Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions
• *(Paper 2) Creative Translation of Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (p. 124-5) into The Idiom of Arundhati Roy
• (Paper 3) Literary Repair in My Year of Meats vs. The Book of Salt 
• (Final Paper) Reimagining Communities: Hospitality in The Reluctant Fundamentalist vs. The Three-Body Problem

Hist-Lit 90DI – Speculative Fictions – Ellen Song

• (Paper 1) The Immigrant: Navigating Temporality and Class in How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
• (Paper 2) Kelly’s Trauma in Your Face in Mine
• *(Final Story) The Plato Act

English Clr – ­Intro to Screenwriting: Workshop – Musa Syeed

• *(Final Screenplay) Unwind Me

Philosophy 129 – Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason – Samantha Matherne

• (Midterm 1) What is Space?
• (Midterm 2) Step Two of the B Deduction
• (Final Paper) Transcendental Idealism

Spring 2018

Hum 10b – A Humanities Colloquium

• Nietzsche’s Orientalist Appropriation of Buddhism in On the Genealogy of Morals
• *“The Silent Song”: a fictional retelling of Bai Ju-yi’s Song of Lasting Sorrow

English 90cnc – The Genealogies of Global Imagination – Homi Bhabha

• *(Final Paper) Ashore (with preface) | renamed in a blog post as The Writer

SW 49 – The Worlds of Business in Modern China – William Kirby

• Book Review of Richard McGregor’s The Party

Fall 2017

Hum 10a – A Humanities Colloquium

• Oedipus at Crossroads in Sophocles’ Oedipus The King

English Cfmr – Fiction Writing: Workshop – Claire Messud

• *(Final Story) April, I Arrive on the Shores of Your Love