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Hui Yao

Hui Yao

Hui Yao

Ph.D. Student

yao.456@osu.edu

398 Hagerty Hall
1775 College Road
Columbus OH 43210

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Areas of Expertise

  • Modern Chinese literature
  • Chinese film
  • Chinese theater

Education

  • B.A., Shanghai International Studies University, China, 2013
  • M.A., University of Pennsylvania, 2015

Hui Yao is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures. Her dissertation focuses on Republican-era director Fei Mu (1906-1951), a significant, yet understudied filmmaker and spoken drama director, whose cultural activities exemplify a translingual, cross-cultural, and inter-medial trend in 1930s and 1940s Shanghai. Her committee members include Professors Kirk Denton, Patricia Sieber, and Meow Hui Goh.

Hui is interested in modern Chinese literature, wartime cinema, the interplay between cinema, traditional theater, and spoken drama, and literary translation practices. She has presented several papers at conferences for the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), AAS-in-Asia, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA), and Chinese Oral and Performing Literature (CHINOPERL). Her reflections on and practice of sanqu song translation can be found in “In Search of Pure Sound: Sanqu Songs, Genre Aesthetics, and Translation Tactics,” a multi-author essay that appeared in the Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (8: 1 2021): 163–202. She has also contributed a “Visual Resources” list to How to Read Chinese Drama: A Guided Anthology (Columbia University Press, 2021), edited by Professor Patricia Sieber and Professor Regina S. Llamas.

In the past few years, Hui has taught Chinese language courses from level one to level five, including serving as the Chinese coordinator at the Individualized Instruction Learning Center (IILC) in the 2017-18 academic year. She has also taught East Asian Humanities, a high-enrollment gateway course to the culture, history, and language in East Asia.

Hui is currently working as a Graduate Administrative Associate in the Translation and Interpreting (T&I) Program at the Center of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (CLLC). In collaboration with Professor Patricia Sieber and Professor Clarissa Surek-Clark, she will facilitate several initiatives to enhance communication among the T&I research, practice, and learning communities.