Kevin Conrad, Jr. Schoenberger

Dr Schoenberger graduated in 2013 with a PhD in pre-modern Chinese literature from Yale University. Since then, he has worked as a researcher and teacher at Harvard University and The University of the South. His research focuses on musical and prosodic aspects of traditional Chinese poetry and performance from a cognitive perspective. He has published peer-reviewed articles on related topics in English and Chinese and is currently completing a manuscript on musicality in late imperial Chinese drama.
Dr Schoenberger has also participated in a number of collaborative and interdisciplinary efforts. Funded by the American Council of Learned Societies and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, he is currently writing a book on the life and work of a late-Ming artist, Xu Wei in collaboration with other senior scholars of literature, history and art history. He has also presented his work in English and Chinese at international conferences and workshops at the University of California, Los Angeles and Suzhou University.
Methodologically, Dr Schoenberger focuses on using new techniques of cognitive science and digital humanities to offer quantitative evidence for arguments about Chinese poetry and drama’s aesthetic effects.