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Yun Emily Wang

Assistant Professor of Music
Music

Overview


Yun Emily Wang is an ethnographer of sound and music. Working at the nexus of sound studies, Asian American/Canadian and diaspora studies, and intersectional queer and feminist thought, Emily is broadly interested in how the politics of difference orient people’s experience of sound.

Emily’s current book project is an ethnography of everyday sounding and listening practices among Chinese-speaking immigrants living and feeling the cunning of Canadian multiculturalism. With case studies on queer diaspora, geriatric care facilities, and the gendered geography of intimacy, this book ultimately argues for the political potential of “mishearing” in minoritarian life. They are additionally working on two projects related to silence and quietude, and sonic registers of appetite and desire.

Emily plays the erhu, but only with a critical distance. She also experiments with a viola plugged into looping pedals.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Assistant Professor of Music · 2020 - Present Music, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Assistant Professor in the Program of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies · 2021 - Present Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Education, Training & Certifications


University of Toronto (Canada) · 2018 Ph.D.
New York University · 2012 M.A.
University of North Carolina, Greensboro · 2010 M.Mus.
University of Rochester · 2007 B.A.