MA Program (She/Her)
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
Sinophone literature, Cinema and Media (China, Hong Kong and Taiwan), Japan, Trans-Pacific studies, Asian American studies, Cultural Studies, Postcolonialism, Critical theory
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
- 2025 Best MA 2000 Paper Prize University of Toronto
- 2024 History Department Equity Diversity Grant University of Toronto
- 2024 School of Graduate Studies Conference Grant University of Toronto
- 2023 Canadian Graduate Scholarship Master's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
- 2023 Golden Mini Bear Award Small File Media Festival
- 2022 Honours Summer Research Award University of British Columbia
- 2022 Honours Travel Grant University of British Columbia
Education
MA, University of Toronto
BA, University of British Columbia (Honours History)
Cohort
- 2023-2024