Adam Gregus is a Ph.D. candidate and research assistant in Japanese Studies at the University of Trier. He holds a B.A. (2014) in Theatre, Film, and Media Studies and an M.A. (2014) in Japanese Studies from the University of Vienna. His current research focuses on Hayashi Fumiko, specifically on her wartime writing during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945). He can be reached at [email protected].
Katharina Helm is a Ph.D. candidate and research assistant in the Department of East Asian Studies (Japanese Studies) at the University of Vienna. She holds a B.A. (2012) and an M.A. (2015) in Japanese Studies from the University of Vienna. Her current research focuses on gender studies, film analysis, and women’s representations in online media. She can be reached at [email protected].
Thomas Immervoll is a lecturer in the Department of East Asian Studies (Chinese Studies) at the University of Vienna. He holds a B.A. (2006) in Chinese Studies and an M.A. in Political Science (2009) from the University of Vienna. His research interests include climate change policy, environmental movements, and political debates in China. He can be reached at [email protected].
Julia Peitl holds a B.A. (2009) in Japanese Studies and an M.A. (2015) in East Asian Economy and Society from the University of Vienna. During her studies she spent one year at the Yokohama City University in Japan and six months at Monash University in Australia. She is a young professional in multilateral disarmament and non-proliferation matters and currently works for the Austrian Federal Ministry of Europe, Integration, and Foreign Affairs. She can be reached at [email protected]
Marlen Rein holds a B.A. (2012) in Political Sciences from Tallinn University and an M.A. (2014) in East Asian Economy and Society from the University of Vienna. In the course of her studies she spent one semester at the University of Cantabria in Spain studying European Business and Economics, and currently works as a freelance journalist in Tallinn. She can be reached at [email protected].
Carsten Schäfer is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Studies (Chinese Studies) at the University of Vienna. He studied at the University of Freiburg, Tongji University (Shànghǎi), and the University of Vienna. He holds a B.A. (2009) and an M.A. (2010) in Chinese Studies from the University of Vienna. From 2011 to 2015 he was a research assistant at the University of Vienna. His research interests include overseas Chinese studies, Greater China studies, Chinese film, and the history and historiography of the People’s Republic of China. He can be reached at [email protected].
Prudence Willats is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of Vienna. She holds a B.A. (2008) in History from Oxford University, UK and an M.A. (2013) in Global Studies from the Erasmus Mundus Global Studies (EMGS) consortium of universities, during which she studied at the universities of Vienna, Leipzig, and Fudan, Shànghǎi. Her doctoral research explores state-society relations in the People’s Republic of China through the medium of discourse analysis, with a specific focus on environmental and development discourses amongst Hàn and non-Hàn groups in Yúnnán province, southwest China. She can be reached at [email protected].
Stefan Würrer is a research assistant at the Centre for Gender Studies at the International Christian University, Tōkyō. He received his B.A. (2011) in Japanese Studies from the University of Vienna and holds an M.A. (2015) in Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies from the University of Tōkyō, where he is currently enrolled as a Ph.D. candidate. His areas of interest include queer and feminist theory, modern and contemporary Japanese literature and art, as well as intermediality and history of thought. His current research focuses on tropes of negativity, (anti-)futurism and separatism within female/feminist writing, and female/feminist art in post-WWII Japan. He can be reached at [email protected].