We are very excited to welcome a new editor to “Gender and Sexuality Studies,” Yvon Wang. Our new editor will continue to bring you reviews of recently defended, unpublished dissertations in this dynamic field. If you are interested in having your dissertation reviewed, please fill out the Review Application Form. If you are interested in helping out in some other way, please contact info@dissertationreviews.org. Yvon Wang can be reached at yvon.wang@dissertationreviews.org.
Introducing Our Field Editor
Yvon Wang is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at Stanford University. Her major interests include Chinese history since 1600, sexuality studies, material culture, and world/comparative history. She received an AB in History, East Asian Studies, and Creative Writing at Princeton University and is currently at work on a dissertation about explicit sexual representation in Chinese print commodities at the turn of the twentieth century. A paper based on this research, “Whorish Representation: Pornography, Media, and Modernity in Fin-de-siècle Beijing,” has appeared in Modern China (August 2013).
Image: Karoly Laufenauer, (Lectures in the World of Nerve-Life). Budapest: Kiralyi Magyar Terme szettudomanyi Tarsulat, 1899. Wikimedia Commons.
