Xinyi Ye’s Biography
Xinyi is a graduate student of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at University of Pennsylvania focusing on Chinese art history. Her current research interests include: material culture exchanges between late imperial China and Western Europe, history and theory of archaeology and museum anthropology, and East Asian music.
She graduated from The University of Hong Kong (First Class Honours) with double majors in Art History and Music and a minor in French and studied art history at University of St Andrews as an exchange student. Her research has been supported by HKU Undergraduate Research Fellowship. She has excavated Vedi Fortress (Armenia) in Ararat Plain Southeast Archaeological Project in 2022 and 2023 and explored interdisciplinary digital humanities technologies in archaeological fieldwork. She is interested in exploring visual and performing arts as both cultural heritage and living practices in global contexts
At Penn, she is currently the chair of the Penn East Asian Studies Graduate Student Research Colloquium (GSRC) and the EALC department’s representative at Penn’s Graduate Student Government of the School of Arts & Sciences(Sasgov). She also serves as the Graduate Guide at the Penn Museum and the Gallery Ambassador at The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.