Graduate Associate
echou[at]yorku.ca
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Sociology, 91亚色
Research Keywords:
Race and racialization; social inequality; identity and representation; cultural studies and popular culture; global Asian diaspora
Research Region(s):
Asia, Canada
Research Diaspora(s):
Asian Diaspora
Elena Chou is a PhD candidate (ABD) in the Department of Sociology at 91亚色, sessional lecturer and researcher. Her areas of research interest focus on race and racialization as they intersect with other forms of social inequality, identity and representation, cultural studies and popular culture, and the global Asian diaspora. Her dissertation examines how race continues to play an important role in producing and shaping the media and public cultural discourses which define Canadian culture within the context of multiculturalism, through an examination of the ways in which Asian Canadians and Asian-ness are discursively constructed and represented as abject and/or 鈥淥ther鈥 in Canadian media and culture. She has published in the areas of Chinese immigrant women in Canada, critical pedagogy and popular music.