Dr Yuchen Yang
@dr-yang.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Sociology at University of Birmingham | UChicago PhD '24 | UC Berkeley BA '17 | interactionist scholar of gender, sexualities, culture, semiotics, and childhood | friend of EMCA who stumbled into linguistic anthropology
But on a side note, the Smith/Hoang pairing comes from my answer to my Theory Prelim Exam 7 years ago, for which we were asked to pair a theorist we learned in our History of Social Theory class and put it into dialogue with a UChicago faculty whose work we also read in that class!
November 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
But on a side note, the Smith/Hoang pairing comes from my answer to my Theory Prelim Exam 7 years ago, for which we were asked to pair a theorist we learned in our History of Social Theory class and put it into dialogue with a UChicago faculty whose work we also read in that class!
It's probably not a coincident that all of the core readings are connected to Berkeley in some way . . .
November 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
It's probably not a coincident that all of the core readings are connected to Berkeley in some way . . .
Congratulations!!! 🎉🎉🎉
November 20, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Congratulations!!! 🎉🎉🎉
As a big fan of Japanese anime, I believe animation theory is one of the most exciting theories that emerged in the social sciences in the last two decades, although it can be traced back to Goffman. I've tried to engage with it in my article on gender-crossing cosplay: doi.org/10.1186/s407...
The art worlds of gender performance: cosplay, embodiment, and the collective accomplishment of gender - The Journal of Chinese Sociology
In recent years, cosplay has gained global visibility as a performing art in which fans dress up as fictional characters from anime, comics/manga, or games. Although scholars contend that cosplay exem...
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November 16, 2025 at 10:25 PM
As a big fan of Japanese anime, I believe animation theory is one of the most exciting theories that emerged in the social sciences in the last two decades, although it can be traced back to Goffman. I've tried to engage with it in my article on gender-crossing cosplay: doi.org/10.1186/s407...
And here's the link to this article: doi.org/10.1177/0735...
Gender Uptake: Theorizing the Semiotics of (Un)Doing Gender - Yuchen Yang, 2025
“Doing Gender” is often read as a theory of how people signify femininity/masculinity via expressive “performances.” This prevailing interpretation falls short ...
doi.org
November 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
And here's the link to this article: doi.org/10.1177/0735...