Wendy Hsu is an ethnographer, musician, and community arts organizer who engages with multimodal research and performance practices informed by music from continental to diasporic Asia. She has published on Taqwacore, Asian American indie rock, Yoko Ono,Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Bollywood, and digital ethnography. Her postdoctoral work engages with Nakashi (那卡西) street music-culture in postcolonial Taiwan and practices of music and mobility of Taipei’s urban underclass.

As an ACLS Public Fellow, Hsu currently serves as an Arts Manager with the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. She recently completed Mellon Digital Scholarship Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Center of Digital Learning + Research at Occidental College where she researched, taught, and experimented with digital pedagogy and ethnographic methodology.

Location

Los Angeles

Disciplines

• Digital Humanities
• Music and Musicology
• Area Studies
• Cultural Studies and Ethnic Studies

Affiliation

Occidental College, Center for Digital Learning + Research

Website

http://beingwendyhsu.info