Ruochen Bo

 Education

• Ph.D. in Cinema Studies, University of Toronto, 2024
• M.A. in Comparative Literature, University of New Mexico, NM
• B.A. in Liberal Arts, St. John’s College, NM

Academic Positions

• 2024-25, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Department of Film Studies
  • Assistant Professor
• Spring 2024, Columbia University, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
  • Visiting Ph.D. Scholar
• 2022-23, Harvard University, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
  • Hou Family Predoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Global New Wave Cinemas, Film-Philosophy, History of Philosophy (Aesthetics, Ethics), Philosophy of Emotions, Modernism and Postmodernism, Tragedy and Comedy

Courses Taught

• COMD 322 Film Theory & Criticism
• COMD 534 Screen Studies and Criticism

Selected Publications & Works

Articles:

• “Magical Emotions: Jean-Paul Sartre and The Headless Woman,” Film-Philosophy, forthcoming
• “A Restored Perspective: Edward Yang’s A Confucian Confusion and Mahjong,” Film  Quarterly, Vol 77, Issue 4, Summer 2024, 41-51. https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2024.77.4.41
• “From Automatism to Autonomy,” Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies, Vol.10, 2022, pp. 98-127. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18192/cjcs.vi10.6615

Reviews and Essays:

• “Book Review: Kalliopi Nikolopoulou, Hunting for Justice: The Cosmology of Dike in Aeschylus’s Oresteia. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2025. 264 pp”, forthcoming. 
• “Toward a Cosmopolitan Listening.” American Book Review 45, no. 3 (2024): 56-60.” https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/abr.2024.a950869.
• “A Tale of Vengeance and Love, Signifying Much More: Stone Turtle (2022),” Asian Ethnicity,  vol. 24, 2023, Issue 4, pp. 639-641 (film review). DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2023.2187344

Ongoing Projects

• Aesthetic and Ethical Entanglements in Edward Yang’s Cinema
• Nativism, Modernism, and Realism: Tseng Chuang-hsiang and Huang Chun-ming