Resume/CV

For a complete copy of my resume/CV, contact me at: jl[at]janetlouie.com

selected Academic Publications & Presentations

“Transpacific Film Circulation and Immigration at Los Angeles Chinatown’s Sing Lee Theatre.” In Oxford Handbook of Chinese American Cinema. Edited by Po-Shek Fu, Brian Hu, and Man Fung Yip. (2026, forthcoming)

“Film Circulation and Exhibition in Los Angeles’ Chinese-Language Theaters: A Transpacific View,” panel Co-chair for “Transnational Chinese Cinema in American Chinatowns,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, April 3-6, 2025. (sponsored by the Asian/Pacific American Caucus)

“The Sansei Dance Scene: Performing for Asian America,” panelist for “Queer Resonance: Sonic Corporeality and Relational Resistance in Asian American Undergrounds,” Association for Asian American Studies, April 2-4, 2026. (sponsored by the Queer Studies Committee)

“Global Chinatowns” Special Issue. Dombroswki, Lisa and Janet Louie, eds. Global Storytelling: Film Exhibition in Global Diasporic Spaces 6.1.(2026, forthcoming)

“Femme and Angry: Documenting Transpacific Punk Lives,” panelist for “Surface Images: Queer and Trans Artifice and Asian Diasporic Corporeality,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, March 14-17, 2024. (sponsored by the Asian/Pacific American Caucus and the Queer and Trans Caucus)

Selected Awards/Honors

Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Dissertation Completion Fellowship — 2025-26

Asia Center Research Grant — 2025, 2021

Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Research Grant — 2024, 2021

Harvard Merit/Graduate Society Research Fellowship — 2023

Harvard Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities — 2021-22

Bok Center Certificate of Distinction and Excellence in Teaching — Fall 2021, Spring 2021

Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Research Grant — 2021, 2020