I have included a selection of my papers and *creative coursework at Harvard and Hwa Chong, specifically the ones which are individual work and of substantial length. Happy reading!
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Spring 2020
English 191c – Constellations – Homi K. Bhabha
- (Midterm Paper) Slow Violence of The Refugee Life in The Childhood of Jesus
- (Final Paper) Nature, the Obeah, and Mythic Memory: Fragmenting Linear Time in Wide Sargasso Sea
Harvard Divinity School 2052 – Religion around Toni Morrison and Gabriel García Márquez: Their Writings and Lives – David L. Carrasco
Hist-Lit 98 Junior Tutorial – Catherine Nguyen
- (Junior Essay) Reimagining the (Post)Human in the Age of the Anthropocene: The Cyborg Figure in Frankenstein and The Windup Girl
CompLit 277 – Literature, Diaspora, and Global Trauma – Karen Thornber
- (Final Story) Third Space
Fall 2019
Hist-Lit 98 Junior Tutorial – Catherine Nguyen
- (Junior Paper) Through the Doors of Globalization to A Postnational Imaginary: Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West
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 K. 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
Fall 2017
Hum 10a – A Humanities Colloquium
English Cfmr – Fiction Writing: Workshop – Claire Messud
- *(Final Story) April, I Arrive on the Shores of Your Love
Great idea!!!! Makes me want to go dig up all my papers lol you make me feel so bad for just ignoring them once they have been graded
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exactly darling!!! please do heehee i want to read them (๑˃̵ᴗ˂̵)
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