Qingyang Freya Zhou

Qingyang Freya Zhou (she/her) is a PhD candidate in German and Film Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation, Divisive Kinship: Korean German Film and Literature in the Long Cold War, examines the intertwined histories of national division in East/West Germany and North/South Korea through visual and literary media, with emphasis on socialist internationalism and gender studies. She has been a Junior Fellow at Seoul National University’s Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies and a Dissertation Research Fellow at the Freie Universität's Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies. She currently serves as the Book Review Editorial Assistant for the German Studies Review.

Link to personal website:https://qingyangfreyazhou.com/

Selected Publications:

Edited Volume
Charting Asian German Film History: Imagination, Collaboration, and Diasporic Representation. Camden House, 2025. https://boydellandbrewer.com/book/charting-asian-german-film-history-9781640141780/.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• “‘A Temporality of Imminent, Never-Consummated Arrival’: Contemporary German Documentaries on North Korea.” German Studies Review 46, no. 2 (2023): 285–305. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/897328. 
• “Queering the Screen: Spectral Figures and German-Taiwanese Encounters in Monika Treut’s Ghosted.” Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 58, no. 3 (2022): 251–70. https://utppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3138/seminar.58.3.2. 

Book Chapters

• “Precarious Kinship, Conflicting Memories, and Ambivalent Affects of Belonging in Cho Sung-hyung’s Korean-German Documentaries.” In Charting Asian German Film History, 227–48.
• “A Façade of Solidarity: East Germany’s Attempted Dialogue with China in The Compass Rose (1957).” In East Asian-German Cinema: The Transnational Screen, 1919 to the Present, ed. Joanne Miyang Cho. Routledge, 2021.https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003157540-8/.