Xinyi Ye

Xinyi Ye is a graduate student of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at University of Pennsylvania. Her current research interest is on gender in Chinese craftsmanship (material culture) and performing arts. At the same time, she maintains wide interests in art and cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible, in global and cross-cultural contexts. At Penn, she serves as the Graduate Guide at the Penn Museum and the Gallery Ambassador at The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA).

She graduated from The University of Hong Kong (First Class Honours) with double majors in Art History and Music and a minor in French and studied art history at University of St Andrews as an exchange student. She has excavated Vedi Fortress (Armenia) in Ararat Plain Southeast Archaeological Project in 2022 and 2023 and explored digital humanities technologies in archaeological fieldwork.

She also has broad interests in researching and performing world music. She has completed HKU Undergraduate Student Research Fellowship on Chinese Yue opera in the 1950s and has been a member of Penn Samba Ensemble, HKU Chamber Singers (Hong Kong), and St Andrews Chorus (Scotland).

* Xinyi is available as a contact to prospective graduate students, especially MA applicants specializing in Chinese art history.