MA Program (She/Her/Hers)
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Cultural and Intellectual
- East Asia
- Empires, Colonialisms and Indigeneity
- Gender, Sex, and Sexualities
- Migration/Diaspora
Areas of Interest
Hong Kong Cinema, Chinese Cinema, East Asian Cinema, transnational cinema, cult cinema, gender and sexuality, cultural and intellectual history, pornography, post-pornography, porn studies, pop culture, cultural phenomena, celebrity phenomena, national identity, Chinese-Hong Kong relations
Biography
Bernice Chau (she/her) is a MA Candidate at the Department of History who focuses on Hong Kong and Chinese film history, in particular the proliferation of exploitation and pornographic cinema in Hong Kong from 1980s-1990s.
Awards
- 2023 Canadian Graduate Scholarship Master's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
- 2022 Honours Summer Research Award University of British Columbia
- 2022 Honours Travel Grant University of British Columbia
Education
BA, University of British Columbia (Honours History)