Sophie is a PhD student interested in fashion, gender, sexuality, theater, print culture, and material culture in early modern Japan. She received her MA in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her BA in English and East Asian Studies from Davidson College. Her research is focused on understanding how clothing was an integral part of constructing one's identity in seventeenth and eighteenth century Japan, and how to read meaning into various kinds of motifs and garments.
MA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
BA, Davidson College
queer studies, gender, sexuality, performance, theater material culture, fashion, print culture, book history, global early modern, early modern Japanese history, cultural history
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Graduate Student Research Colloquium