Delphi May
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| 2016-present: |
University of Exeter Hispanic & Chinese cinema (MPhil with planned upgrade to PhD) |
| 2015-2016: |
The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London One year taught Masters degree in Chinese Studies, encompassing the following modules: • Dissertation in the Culture, Languages & Society of China. Title: Growing Pains: trials of unrequited love, unclosed love, and silenced homosexuality in Butterfly and Love Me, If You Can • Modern Chinese Film & Theatre (Convenor: Dr Rossella Ferrari). Essays included: -"What is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?" An examination of the emotional and aesthetic value of objects in The Red Detachment of Women - Chased by the betwixt and between: an examination of local and (poly)local displacement in Wong Kar Wai's Chungking Express and Happy Together • Modern Film from Taiwan and the Chinese Diaspora (Convenor: Dr Xiaoning Lu). Essays included: - The plight of the marginalised: a consideration of how Terrorizers exhibits the gothic concepts of the outsider and liminality via recurring closed spaces - Eroticising the 'middlebrow': a case for a 'middlebrow' Taiwanese cinema presented in Help Me Eros and The Wayward Cloud • Culture and Society of China (Convenors: Dr Kevin Latham & Dr Jakob Klein). Essays included: - Changing conceptualisations of the 'ideal wife' - The rise of the 'individual' in China • Chinese Language Special Course 3 (Convenor: Dr Song Lianyi). Assessments included: - December & April oral examinations - Fortnightly assessed oral material - December & March in-class written examinations - 3000 words (approx) translation project |
| 2011-2015: |
University of Exeter (Spanish with English and Mandarin Chinese) Prominent modules included: • Gender Studies (Convenor: Professor Nuria Capdevila-Argüelles) • Modernism & Modernity • Film Under Franco (now 'Images of Dissent') (Convenor: Professor Sally Faulkner) • Autobiographical Writing (Convenor: Professor Nuria Capdevila-Argüelles) • British Screens (Convenor: Dr Phil Wickham) • Optional dissertation. Title: "An examination of the figurative use of shrines in the works of Almodóvar, and their relations to liminality, memory, and catharsis." Supervised by Professor Nuria Capdevila-Argüelles |
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| 2017-present: |
Latin America Studies Association (LASA) |
