Yu-Ying "Lauren" Hu
huy@indiana.edu
Admitted: 2006

BA 2002 - National Taiwan University
Major(s) - Foreign Language and Literature
MA 2005 - National Taiwan University
Major(s) - Foreign Language and Literature

Yu-Ying Hu is a fourth year Ph. D. student in Gender Studies. She is an international student coming from Taiwan. Her research interest includes Transnational Feminism, Cultural Globalization, Ethnography of Gender and Sexualities, Rhetoric on Gender and Sexuality in Media, Queer Politics and Theory, and Interdisciplinary Research Methods. She holds a BA and MA degree from National Taiwan University with a major in English Literature. Her MA thesis is focused on queer theories and politics, female masculinity and butch-femme aesthetics. She is now starting a dissertation project focused on examining the way in which the conceptualization of gender and sexuality in Taiwanese society has been shaped and reshaped by Taiwan's political modernization and cultural globalization. She will conduct her field work on a Taiwanese local lesbian community, which is distinguished by its members' gender roles and has prospered and caught great public attention in recent years, thus being a crucial site where ideologies concerning gender and sexuality are revealed. She will investigate mass media as a major means that initiates and mediates global-local encounters in Taiwanese culture and society.