Emma Kwok

Written while pursuing a master's degree at Memorial University of Newfoundland:

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• When Ahma Met Ahye: What Personal Experience Narratives Do (Nov 2021): Meanings which emerge when my family members and I tell and retell the story of how my grandparents met and married.
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• Savouring Family and Heritage through Joong (Nov 2021): My family's experiences with joong, bamboo-wrapped sticky rice, and the roles the dish might serve among us.
   

• Nuanced Names: When Traditions and Groups Converge Within One Family (Dec 2021): The connections between Dorothy Noyes' Group (2003), Henry Glassie's Tradition (2003), and how five members of my family gained and perceive their Chinese and English names.

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• Kubo and the Two Strings (2016): The Intertextual Perpetuation of Orientalism and Colonialism (Apr 2022): How Kubo and the Two Strings, a stop-motion animated film, is designed to feel both authentically folkloric and Japanese (and why this matters).

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• Myths and Pillows: Two Versions of Pillow Fighting, Analyzed Using Barthes’ Semiological Approach to Myth
  (Apr 2022): What makes the aura of the Pillow Fight Championships unconvincing in comparison to a gamified version of the sport represented on the Korean variety show, Running Man.
   

• My Experience with Alliance for California Traditional Arts (Aug 2022): A reflection on the benefits of using a living document model for folk and traditional arts reports.
   

• Things Continued, Things New, and Things Learned: Exploring the Nonprofit Arts and Culture Sphere with ACTA (Dec 2022): Contextualizing my work at ACTA within recent approaches to equitable funding for folk and traditional arts.
   

• Public Spaces and Events: Spatial Imaginaries at The Rooms (Apr 2023): How public spaces and events at The Rooms, Newfoundland and Labrador's provincial cultural institution, can further spatial justice in St. John's.
   

• It's a food! It's a drink! It's a... Space-Time Machine! (Apr 2023): Examining how a food can transport feelings of community, belongingness, and home across time and space.