College of Humanities People
Anne Henochowicz, Chinese Lit. Ph.D.
Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures: http://deall.osu.edu/
Office Information
398 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: henochowicz.1@osu.edu
Phone: 614-292-5816
398 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: henochowicz.1@osu.edu
Phone: 614-292-5816
Education:
M.A. in Chinese Literature, The Ohio State University, 2009
M.Phil. in Ethnomusicology, University of Cambridge, 2007
B.A. summa cum laude in Chinese, University of Pennsylvania, 2006
Princeton in Beijing, summer 2005: Level 4
Phi Beta Kappa ~ Phi Kappa Phi
General Background:
I am interested in Mongol-Han Chinese cultural exchange and dialogue, particularly through music. I am currently studying the band Hanggai and its punk/folk/world music approach to Mongolian music and identity.
My advisor is Mark Bender.
ABOUT ME (CHINESE) Voice of America interview
videos
PAPERS and PUBLICATIONS
"Evolving Antiquity: Guqin Ideology and National Sentiment." College Music Symposium 49-50 (Forthcoming Fall 2010).
"Mongolian American Family and Community" and six other entries on Mongolian American folklife. Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press, forthcoming 2010.
"Blue Heaven, Parched Land: Mongolian Folksong and the Chinese State." Graduate Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies, 6:1 (Mar. 2008), 37-50. download
"The Beautiful Grasslands: Folksong, Imagination and Identity in Urban Inner Mongolia." MPhil dissertation. Dissertation, accompanying field recordings, and field report located in the Pendlebury Library, Cambridge University. A second copy of the dissertation is in the library of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit, also at Cambridge.
"Beyond Words: How Xu Bing's Book from the Sky Disproves Chinese Character Myths." The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Journal 2006.
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
"'For the Land of All Mongols': Gada Meiren the Bandit, Hero, and Proto-Revolutionary."
- Feb. 19, 2010: Folklore, History, and Memory: Ireland and Beyond, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
"Rocking the Steppe: Traditions Old and New in the Mongolian World."
- Oct. 30-31, 2009: Crossroads in Asian Music & Poetry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
“Punk and Pan-Mongolism: Musical Expressions of Mongol Identity in Urban China.”
- Jul. 21-24, 2009: Postgraduate Research Summer School, Oslo, Norway
"The Gift of the Song: Traditional and Modern Practices in Inner Mongolia, China."
- Mar. 27, 2009: Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
"Sing It Like It Is: Ironic Social Commentary in Western and Asian Karaoke."
- Oct. 24, 2008: American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Louisville, KY
- May 16, 2008: Translation/Transformation, The Folklore and Ethnomusicology Student Associations at The Ohio State and Indiana Universities, Columbus, OH
"Singing Pan-Mongolia: Grassland Song in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, P.R.C."
- Apr. 3, 2008: Chinoperl Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA
"Evolving Antiquity: Guqin Ideology and National Sentiment."
- Nov. 17, 2007: College Music Society 50th National Conference, Salt Lake City, UT
- Jun. 15, 2007: Social Science Research Council-Mellon Mays Graduate Student Summer Conference, New York, NY
- Mar. 31, 2007: China-India Development and Relations Symposium, New York, NY
“Nomadic Memory: Folksong and Mongolian Identity in Contemporary Urban China.”
- Apr. 25, 2007: China Research Day, East Asia Institute, Cambridge University, Cambridge, U.K.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
FLAS, The Ohio State University, 2008-2009
- Awarded for the advanced study of Chinese language and culture.
University Fellowship, The Ohio State University, 2007-2008
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, 2005-2006
Adele Austin Rickett Memorial Prize, University of Pennsylvania, 2004-2005
- Awarded for most outstanding undergraduate paper on Chinese literature.
- Title submitted: "Love’s End: The Transcendence of Sentimentality in Honglou meng."
ORGANIZATIONS AND SERVICE
Graduate Students of East Asian Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University, 2008-2009: president
Interdisciplinary China Forum, Cambridge University, 2006-2007: committee secretary
Chinese Music Society, University of Pennsylvania, 2004-2006: co-founder, singer, promotions
Member of: Association for Asian Studies, American Center for Mongolian Studies, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi
LANGUAGES
English, native
Mandarin, fluent
French, fluent
Classical Chinese, reading knowledge
Spanish, reading knowledge
Mongolian, beginner
Folklore
