Wei Lin Tan

Wei Lin studies Japanese literature, film, and media across the long 20th century. Their primary interests are currently oriented towards two thematic clusters: 1) tracking the unevenness of transmedial circulations and their influence on gendered embodiment and subjectivity; and 2) extreme aesthetics in relation to form and affect. Completing an undergraduate thesis on the tension between authorship and text in Mishima Yukio, Wei Lin received their B.A. in Japanese studies from the National University of Singapore before finishing an MA thesis on the figurations of muscular masculinity between the student movements, manga, and film in 1960s Japan in Harvard University's Regional Studies in East Asia MA program. They are currently exploring the "bad taste boom" in Japan's 90s in relation to cyberpunk and body horror film, as well as noise music. Intersecting interests include media theory (Anglophone, German, and Japanese), queer theory, affect theory, and critical approaches to extremist thought.