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While all Laidlaw Scholars will be presenting their research at the Columbia Undergraduate Research Symposium in the fall, what are the more immediate expectations that you have for your research? Are you writing a paper? Will your research be part of a larger scientific study? Do you hope to produce an annotated bibliography that you reflect on down the line? Is your research now the first phase of a project you’ll continue to work on throughout the year, and/or next summer? Now that we are nearing the one month mark of the program, please write about your expectations for your research.
- I see my project extending far beyond the given time frame or written expectations from the program. As I've begun exploring the world of Taiwanese literature, indigenous storytelling, and ecocriticism, I was beyond surprised at the number of sources and text available. While I immediately expect for my research product in the coming months to be a paper analysis of a specific fictional work, I can see myself producing other papers branching off into philosophical analyses of camphor trees in the context of Taiwanese history, while also reading more deeply into individual authors.
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Why does your research matter? Explain the significance of the question you are investigating, and why you are interested in it.
- My research matters to me particularly because it explores climate narratives, and challenges predominant categorizations and definitions of climate change as something "scientific" and catastrophic beyond repair. Rather than distancing ourselves from the climate and treating it as a separate entity, ecocriticism inherently challenges this approach by treating the relationship between humans and nature as equal. Being able to reframe the climate crisis in a deeper context while exploring various approaches (Western, Confucian, indigenous) to understanding the role of nature has been particularly inspiring to me.
Student, Columbia University in the City of New York
Hi! My name is Celine and I'm an undergraduate at Columbia University studying Economics-Political Science and Hispanic Studies. In addition to these topics, I also enjoy learnings about China-Taiwan history and politics.
A big part of my interests and passions also lie in journalism. I work as a student journalist at the Columbia Daily Spectator, where reporting on university news. I love studying the things I do because the allow me to tell stories and learn about people from across the world, just as journalism allows me to do here at Columbia.
In my free time, I also love cooking, baking, running, listening to music–maybe occasionally singing some karaoke–and spending time with my friends.
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