Samantha Ting

PhD Candidate
Illinois Distinguished Fellow
Graduate Teaching Assistant

Research Interests

Memory studies; Holocaust representations; film and cinema studies; modernism; German-Jewish studies; post-WW2 Germany and Japan; Okinawan, Taiwanese, and Yiddish literatures; identity and nationhood; authoritarian regimes; speculative fiction. 

Languages: English, Japanese, Taiwanese, Mandarin, German, Yiddish

Additional Campus Affiliations

The Program in Jewish Culture & Society

The Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies