Wendy F. Hsu . wendyhsu@virginia.edu + + ++++++ +download PDF version

Education
PhD Candidate, Comparative and Critical Studies in McIntire Department of Music, University of Virginia.

MA East Asian Studies, University of Virginia, 2004 .MA Thesis, “Misreading the Random: A Translational Reading of the Japanese Anime Cowboy Bebop.”

BA Music, School of the Arts. Virginia Commonwealth University, magna cum laude, 2001

BA Religious Studies, College of Humanities & Sciences, Virginia Commonwealth University, magna cum laude, 2001

Publications
academic
Hsu, Wendy and Sargent, Carey. "Rocking Out Between the Local and the Global: Transnational Independent Music Industry in Taiwan", Amalgam, September 2008 [download PDF].

"Review: Queering the Popular Pitch edited by Sheila Whiteley and Jennifer Rycenga," Journal of Popular Music Studies, (September 2008) [download PDF].

"Review: Sensational Knowledge: Embodying Culture through Japanese Dance by Tomie Hahn", Women and Music, (September 2008). [download PDF].

"Queering and Reading Plato in Hedwig and the Angry Inch", Queer Pop Culture, ed. Peele, Thomas. Palgrave-Macmillan, May 2007 [download PDF].

"Review: Alvin Lucier Festival @ UVa", Journal SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music), Summer 2007.

"Review: Wired for Sound: Engineering and Technologies in Sonic Cultures", Journal SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music), Vol. 18, No. 2, Fall 2005.

“Between Narrative and Expressive, Fantasy and Melodrama in Bombay Film,” Virginia Review of Asian Studies, vol. 5 (2003) [download PDF].

non-academic
"Loving His Black TShirts, Metal and the World Through Music: Interviewing Craig Pfunder", RVA Magazine, Vol.4, No. 2, May 2008. [Download PDF ]

Mosuela, Joanne. "Nose to the Inkstone: An Introduction to Asian American Literature", InkStone, April 2008. [article containing interview of me]

"Imagining Peace with Yoko Ono", RVA Magazine,Vol.3, No. 8, November 2007. Also published on Ono's official website [http://imaginepeace.com/RVAmagazineDec07.html].

Co-translator, "Wu Style Taiji: A History from China to the United States," Kungfu: Wushu-Qigong Magazine, January 2000.

Presentations, Lectures, and Performances
academic conference
"Resisting Multiculturalism: Racial and Gender Politics of Indie Rock in Asian America", International Association of the Study of Popular Music - International Meeting, University of Liverpool, UK, July 12-17, 2009.

"Rocking Out and Genre-Bending: Asian American Musicians in Indie Rock". Society of American Music (SAM) Meeting, Denver, CO., March 18-22, 2009.

"Taiwanese America Meets Taiwan Through Transnational Indie Rock Performance." Society of Ethnomusicology (SEM) Meeting, University of Weslyan, October 24-28, 2008.

"'I'm a Star, Get It': Yoko Ono Subverts Rock Masculinity," International Association of the Study of Popular Music US-chapter meeting (IASPM-US), April 26-28, 2007.

“William Hung: Performing the Asian Model Minority,” Association of Asian American Studies (AAAS), Atlanta, GA, March 24, 2006.

"Misreading the Random: Translational Reading of the Japanese Anime Cowboy Bebop", Performance Studies International (PSi), Brown University, March 1, 2005.

invited guest lecture
"Between Indie Rock and Asian America," Evelyn Danzig Haas Visiting Artist , Wheaton College, September 18, 2008.

“Music and Transnationalism,” SOC356: Culture and Power, Carey Sargent, University of Virginia, December 4, 2007.

“Asian Musicians in Western Classical Concert Music,” MUSI101: Introduction to Musical Literature, Allison Robbin, University of Virginia, December 3, 2007.

"Asian Femininity and Popular Music in America," MUSI Asian American Music, Tomie Hahn, Harvard University, April 25, 2007.

"Asian Faith and Living," Riverside Presbyterian Church Sunday School, Richmond, VA, November 18, 2001.

Guest Lecturer, Original Music and Artistic Statement, Van Gogh and God, Commonwealth Society, Virginia Commonwealth University, April 17, 2001

Work Experience
academic teaching
Graduate Instructor, Department of Studies of Women and Gender, University of Virginia:
SWAG144 Gender and Race in Popular Music, fall 2008, 2009 [syllabus].

Graduate Instructor, McIntire Department of Music, University of Virginia:
MUSI208 Popular Music and Transnationalism, summer 2009 [syllabus].
MUSI426 Music in Asian American, spring 2009 [syllabus]
MUSI208 Race and Ethnicity in Popular Music, summer 2008 [syllabus].
MUSI209D Music in Asian America, summer 2007 [syllabus].

Graduate Teaching Assistant, McIntire Department of Music, University of Virginia, [courses assist-taught include MUSI211 Music in Everyday Life, MUSI207 Roots Music of America, MUSI212 History of Jazz, MUSI101 Introduction to Musical Literature], Fall 2004-present.

Teaching Assistant, The Asian/Pacific American Experience in the US (Asian & Middle Eastern Languages 302), Professor Daisy Rodriguez, UVA, Spring 2004

Teaching Assistant, Zen Buddhism (Religious studies 412/Philosophy 412), Professor Clifford Edwards, VCU, 2001-2002

other related academic positions
Founder/Coordinator, Creative Communion, VCU Religious Studies Department, April 26, 2002; Guest Artist, April 25, 2003

Founder/Moderator, "Afternoon Tea Talk on Asian Thought and Culture," VCU Religious Studies Department, 2001-2002

English Instructor, Harvardland School of English and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, Summer 2001

performance
Founding member, Pinko Communoids (electro-acoustic improvisation trio), April 2006-present. Featured in [selected]:
Feminist Theory & Music 10 (FT&M10), 2009, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, NC
Womb Bloc Music Festival 2007, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Sonic Circuits International Experimental Music Festival 2007, Washington DC
Technosonics Electronic Music Festival VII 2007, Charlottesville VA
Noise in the system 2006, 2007, 2008, Charlottesville VA
MegaHz Experimental and Noise Festival, 2008, Charlottesville VA

Founding member, HzCollective: Virginia Experimental Music Collective, August 2007-present.

Pianist/Composer The Hsuet, a piano-cell duo, 1996-present

Volunteer Musician, Riverside Newport Nursing Home, Newport News, VA, 1996-present; Beth Sholom Nursing Home, Richmond, VA, 1996

Keyboardist, Richmond-based ska group, 1998-1999

Violist, Quartet Royalle, a classical string group, 1996-2000

web
Web Design/Master, Villa Conceio (www.villaconceio.com), 2005-presnt.

Web Designer/Master, Sam Forrest Furniture Design Studio (www.samforreststudio.com), 2004-present

Graduate Assistant-Webmaster, UVA Lorna Sundberg International Center (www.virginia.edu/iso/ic), 2002-present

Volunteer Co-Webmaster, UVA LGBT Resource Center (www.uvalgbtrc.org),
Fall 2003-present

Internet Assistant, VCU Student Commons & Activities, (www.students.vcu.edu/commons), 1997-2000

audio-visual production
Film Scorer/Sound Producer, Barking Age: an Animation, MFA Thesis Project, Luan Ling Chiang, Pratt Institute. Fall 2003-present

Program Coordinator, UVa Lorna Sundberg International Center Sunday at the Center: Monthly Showcase of Intercultural Arts, 2003-present

Co-Producer/Composer, The Tale of Genji: a Claymation, student production, co-produced by Katja Schubl. Fall 2003

Film Score Composer/Performer, Long Art, 77 min. documentary film, dir. David Williams; 2003. Virginia Film Festival, October 24, 2003 James River Film Festival, scheduled for 2004

Composer/Performer/Audio Producer, City Series: Street & Home, 6 min. video installation by Chia-chi Charlie Chang, VCU MFA Graduation Exhibit, April 2003; VCU Student Film Festival, April 2003; Urban Light Works International 2002, Richmond, VA, December

Guest Taiji Demonstrator-Lecturer/Interpreter, Health Fair, Asian American Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, PA, March 17, 2002

Composer/Performer, Vincent, Dance Choreographer, Rachel Crawford, Senior Dance Concert, VCU, February 19-21, 2001

interpreting/translating (Mandarin Chinese-English)
Interpretor, The Hudson Scrolls, Hsien-Hen Lu, [Mandarin version, Taipei, Taiwan: INK Publishing, 2007], August 2005-present.

Company Interpreter-Correspondent, SP Imports, Inc., September-December 2002

Volunteer Interpreter, "Language Bank" Patient-Interpreting Service, Medical College of Virginia Hospital, 2000-2001

Organization Interpreter, Richmond Wu Style Taiji Association, 1997-2001

Personal Interpreter of Dr. Li Li Qun, Taiji teacher from Shanghai - Secretary General of the Wu Jian Quan Taiji Association, 1997-2000

other
Volunteer Medical Assistant/Receptionist, Fan Free Clinic, Richmond, VA,
2000-2001

Member, VCU Women's Tennis Team, 1996-1997, 2001

Senator/Webmaster, VCU Student Government Association, Publicity Committee,1997-1999

Tennis Instructor, Centre Court Tennis Center, Newport News, VA; 1992-1996
Private Piano Instructor, Summer 1998

Medical Assistant, Ning Po Chinese Medical Clinic, Taipei, Taiwan, summer 1997

Awards + Honors
Graduate Fellowship in Digital Humanities, UVa Scholars Lab, spring 2010.
Ellen Weedon East Asia Travel Grant, summer 2008
UVa Presidential Fellowship (full university graduate fellowship), 2004-2008
Huskey Graduate Student Travel Grant, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007.
Magna Cum Laude, VCU, 2001
University Honors, VCU, 2001
Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society 2001
Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society 2001
VCU Undergraduate Research Grant 1999-2000
Golden Key National Honor Society 1998
Phi Eta Sigma Freshman National Honor Society 1997
Office of Minority Student Affairs Certificate of Achievement 1996-2001
VCU College of Humanities and Sciences Top 1% Class Award 1996-97
Scholar Athlete of Colonial Athletic Association 1996-97
VCU Presidential Scholarship (full university scholarship) 1996-2000

Languages
Mandarin Chinese, native fluency
Japanese, reading profficiency
German, good reading ability