Ruochen Bo

PhD Student

Working Dissertation

Title

Aesthetic and Ethical Entanglements in Edward Yang’s Cinema

Supervisors

Brian Price

Biography

Ruochen Bo is a Ph.D. Candidate in Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto. She received her B.A. in Liberal Arts from St. John's College, NM, and holds an M.A. in Comparative Literature. Her dissertation examines Edward Yang’s cinematic corpus in relation to philosophical concerns regarding aesthetic and ethical education. In 2022-2023, she is a Hou Family Predoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

Awards

Education

MA, University of New Mexico
BA, St. John's College

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