Andy Rodekohr

B.A. University of Georgia, 1999 (Comparative Literature)
M.A. Columbia University, 2004 (Modern Chinese Literature)
Ph.D. Harvard University, 2012 (Modern Chinese Literature)

Andy joined the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures in 2012. His research focuses primarily on Chinese-language literature, film, and other popular media. His current book project, tentatively titled Crowd Spectacular: Conjuring the Masses in Modern China, foregrounds the imagination, representation, and circulation of crowd images in China as a mode of cultural production pivotal to the ideological construction of the political masses. Andy’s other research interests include the development of cinematic new waves in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China, the musical, cultural and technological legacies of the pop singer Teresa Teng, and the globalization of Chinese martial arts through