Yomi Braester 		Yomi Braester
 
 
 

University of Washington, Seattle  

BYRON W. AND ALICE L. LOCKWOOD PROFESSOR IN THE HUMANITIES
            DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE, CINEMA AND MEDIA
            (PROFESSOR, 2009; ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, 2003; ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, 2000)

DIRECTOR
            SUMMER PROGRAM IN CHINESE FILM AND CRITICISM AT BFA
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR
            DEPARTMENT OF ASIAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE
MEMBER OF THE CHINA STUDIES PROGRAM
MEMBER OF THE GRADUATE PROGRAM IN THEORY AND CRITICISM

BOOK REVIEW EDITOR ON FILM AND MEDIA,
            MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE AND CULTURE
EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER
            MODERN LANGUAGES QUARTERLY
ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER
            JOURNAL OF CHINESE CINEMAS
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER
            "TRANSASIA: SCREEN CULTURES," HONG KONG UNIVERSITY PRESS
EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER
            "LITERARY CONJUGATIONS," UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
PRESIDENT
            THE ASSOCIATION OF CHINESE AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE (2006-8)
 


University of Georgia, Athens

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, 1998-2000
DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

DIRECTOR, CHINESE LANGUAGE PROGRAM
RESIDENT DIRECTOR,  UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF GEORGIA SUMMER STUDY IN NANJING, CHINA, 2000


University of California, Berkeley

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES, 1997/98


Yale University

Ph.D., 1998
PROGRAM IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE, 1992-1997
Dissertation: Writing Terror: Crises of Testimony in Modern Chinese Literature and Film
 
M.A., 1992
HISTORY OF ART, 1991/2



STUDENT at the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies, Taipei, 1994/5

EXCHANGE SCHOLAR at Columbia University, Spring 1994.

EXCHANGE SCHOLAR at Harvard University, Fall 1993.



Hebrew University in Jerusalem 

M.A., 1991
EAST ASIAN STUDIES, 1987-91
M.A. Thesis: Chinese Theories of Painting, 1912-1937, and Contemporary Intellectual Trends
B.A., 1985
EAST ASIAN STUDIES, 1982-85
Major: East Asian Studies (Chinese). Minors: East Asian Studies (Japanese); Arabic; Philosophy of Science
 


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