Hsu
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- Last name
- Hsu
- Position
- PhD Candidate
- Website
- http://beingwendyhsu.info
- Brief Bio
Hello, I'm Wendy Hsu, PhD candidate in the music department, and a former graduate fellow of Digital Humanities at the Scholars' Lab at the University of Virginia. I'm working on a project combining web-scraping and mapping technologies for my dissertation on the Asian American experiences in indie rock music. More generally, I'm interested in developing digital methods that extend and reconceptualize ethnographic processes. I look forward to participating in the dynamic HASTAC Scholars community!
- Full Bio
Wendy Hsu is a PhD Candidate in the Critical and Comparative Studies in Music program at the University of Virginia. She is currently working on her dissertation, an ethnography that explores the social and musical life of Asian American musicians actively performing in independent (indie) rock music scenes. This dissertation investigates processes of identity articulation and community formation in the post-Civil-Rights, post-9/11 United States.
In research, she is interested in developing digital methods that extend and reconceptualize ethnographic processes in contemporary contexts. With the support from the Graduate Fellowship in the Digital Humanities offered by the UVa Scholars’ Lab, she implemented methods of digital fieldwork, applying web-scraping techniques to map the social networks of the musicians in her dissertation research. This visualization process has helped highlight the transnational musical exchanges between the United States and the various sub-regions of Asia. She has presented this work at The Pop Conference at the Experience Music Project in Seattle and at the International Association of the Study of Popular Music meeting in Hong Kong. In teaching at UVa, she incorporates digital interactive components such as blogging, video stream, and digital media (audio/video) production to encourage kinesthetic learning and foster a critical perspective on contemporary media among students.
This year, she works as a graduate research assistant for Sciences, Humanities & Arts Network of Technological Initiatives (SHANTI) at UVa. In her spare time, she enjoys playing music with her bands, organizing community arts events in Charlottesville, VA.
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