Nicole Yung Liao

PhD Student
nicole.liao@mail.utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Fields of Study

  • Modern/Contemporary
  • East Asian
  • European
  • Aesthetics
  • Photography
  • Post-colonialism/Decolonization

Areas of Interest

  • Nineteenth century visual culture
  • History and theory of photography
  • Cinema
  • History of colour
  • Science and technology
  • New materialism
  • Affect theory
  • Intermediality

Working Dissertation

Supervisors

Jordan Bear

Biography

Honours, Awards and Grants

  • 2022–23 Canada Graduate Scholarship - Master’s Award, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Presentations

Cinematic Perception and the Undoing of Subjectivity: Yokomitsu Riichi’s Shanghai, 8th Annual Wolleson Memorial: “Matrix of Mobility: Networks of Objects and Exchange” Symposium, Department of Art History, University of Toronto, March 4, 2021.

Cohort

  • 2022-2023