Nicholas Fernacz
Pronouns He / Him / His
Email fernacz@usc.edu
Biography
Nicholas P. Fernacz is a fourth year Ph.D. candidate in the Department. His research concerns the sonic dimension(s) of cultural products from Taiwan, and his peer-reviewed writing on the subject appears in Journal of Chinese Cinemas. He has given presentations at Harvard, Bryn Mawr College, University of Oregon, and University of Hawai’i at Hilo where he was awarded the Jeffrey G. Barlow Graduate Student Prize in Chinese Studies from Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (a regional body of the Association for Asian Studies).
He has been invited to lecture at the Institute of Visual Studies at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taipei, Taiwan.
Primary Advisor: Dr. Jenny Chio
Education
- Chinese National Taiwan University, 2024
- Chinese Tsinghua University, 2022
- MA University of Pennsylvania, 2022
- BA University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2019
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Journal Article
- (2024). The Skywalk is Gone!: Infrastructural Sound and Everyday Invisibility in Tsai Ming-liang’s Cinema of Slowness. Journal of Chinese Cinemas.