Joseph Lovell
Joseph Lovell
Specialization: Modern Chinese History, Media Studies & Sound Studies
Email:jml@ucsb.edu
Specialization: Modern Chinese History, Media Studies & Sound Studies
Email:jml@ucsb.edu
Research Interests
My dissertation examines how amplified sound technologies, such as the radio and loudspeaker, were combined with sound-based political consciousness work – “speaking bitterness,” small group meetings, and struggle sessions – to create a potent sonic politicization of everyday life in the People’s Republic of China during the Mao era.
Advisors
- Prof. Mayfair Yang (primary advisor)
- Prof. Xiaowei Zheng
- Prof. David Novak
Academic History
- M.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
- B.A., History, University of Manchester
Teaching Experience
- Spring 2018 – East Asian Religious Traditions
- Winter 2018 – East Asian Traditions: Pre-modern
- Fall 2017 – Zen Buddhism
- Spring 2016 – East Asian Traditions: Modern
- Winter 2016 – East Asian Traditions: Pre-modern
- Fall 2016 – Zen Buddhism
- Spring 2016 – East Asian Traditions: Modern
- Winter 2016 – Intro to Buddhism
- Fall 2015 – Zen Buddhism
Publications
- “The Party and the People: Shifting Sonic Politics in Tiananmen Square, post 1949.” (Book chapter, in Sound Communities in the Asia Pacific: Music, Media, and Technology, February 2021)
- “Decadent Echoes: Representations of Decay in Shen Congwen’s Sansan” Princeton Journal of East Asian Studies, 2014.
Awards
- Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Doctoral Fellowship, 2020
- Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Dissertation Fellowship, 2020
- Department Research Grant, 2019
- Department Summer Funding Grant, 2019
- Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grant, 2019
- Kathryn Davis Fellow for Peace, 2019
- International Doctoral Recruitment Fellowship (IDRF), 2015