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Yomi Braester (born 1964) is a scholar of cinema, new media, and literature, known especially for his work on Chinese cinema and media and their connection to urbanism. He is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle and the co-editor of the Journal of Chinese Cinemas (with Weihong Bao).

Academic career
Before coming to the University of Washington in 2000, Braester was a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Chinese Studies, UC-Berkeley (1997-98)taught in the Program for Comparative Literature, University of Georgia in Athens (1998-2000), where he served as director of the Chinese Language Program.

Braester was the founding director of the summer program in Chinese cinema history and criticism at BFA (2006-2011).

Major publications
Braester is the author of Witness Against History (Stanford UP, 2003) and Painting the City Red (Duke UP, 2010), winner of the Joseph Levenson Book Prize (post-1900 category).

Braester is the co-editor of [ebooks.hkupress.org/product/cinema-at-citys-edge|Cinema at the City's Edge] (2010) He has also published articles in numerous essay collections and in scholarly journals as Cinema Journal, Screen, Modern China, and China Quarterly.

Awards and recognitions
He has been invited to give seminars at the Beijing Film Academy, Renmin University, Shanghai University, and more.

also Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Beijing Film Academy.

Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities

the Joseph Levenson Book Prize (post-1900 category)

Guggenheim

ACCL

Braester served as President of the Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature, YEARS In 2013, Braester received a Guggenheim Fellowship (in Film, Video, and Radio studies). Byron W. and Alice L. Woodlock Professor in the Humanities

1 Education 2 Career 3 Books and articles 4 References 5 External links

Education
Braester received a BA and an MA in East Asian Studies from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, an MA in History of Art from Yale University, and a PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University.

JCC His work has been translated into Chinese and Hebrew.

Books and articles

Witness Against History: Painting the City Red CCE

References

http://www.uw/edu

External links

Faculty Page at the University of Washington Comparative Literature, Cinema and Media Levenson reference Guggenheim fellowship citation ACCL Journal of Chinese Cinemas