Hilary Anne Yarger

Personal Website: https://www.hilaryyarger.com/

Education

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Master of Arts Program in the Humanities (MAPH), June 2023

Master of Arts Thesis Entitled, "Hazy Devotion: A Visual Album in Electronic Music, East Asian Instruments, and Sensory Experience"

• Created a twenty-minute visual album of sample-free electronic music and video

• Combined traditional East Asian electronic instruments with contemporary vaporwave/slushwave electronic music

• Described aims of project and researched the use of electronic versions of traditional instruments

• Video Link: https://youtu.be/WE8RvoH6W54

• Awarded to present Thesis Proposal at the Arts and Politics of East Asia (APEA) Workshop

Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT

Middlebury Language Schools Chinese Summer Program, August 2022

Mandarin Chinese Level III

• Eight-week intensive summer language program with language pledge (only speaking Chinese)

• Studied Advanced Mandarin Chinese I

• Final paper and oral report “自闭症学生的教育” (“Education for Autistic Students”)

Bard College at Simon's Rock, Great Barrington, MA

Bachelor of Arts, Summa Cum Laude (3.811), May 2021

Electronic Media and the Arts, Asian Studies

Senior Thesis Entitled, "Emptiness: The Interpretation of Ma 間, Mu 無, and Ensō 円相 in Japanese Aesthetics"

• Researched and wrote about linguistic characteristics of the terms ma 間, mu 無, and ensō 円相

• Created a digital arts installation incorporating elements of emptiness and consisting of traditional Japanese art forms: calligraphy, court music, ikebana, and zen gardens

• Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DfWt5uyvpI

• Campus Exhibition and Installation, Livingston Hall Student Union Alumni Performance Center, Bard College at Simon’s Rock

• Award Recipient, “Arts and Society” by Open Society University Network (OSUN) with presentation at global student panel

• Senior Thesis Presenter, Bard Network Board of Overseers Meeting

Teaching, Media, and Communications Experience

Engagement and Outreach Coordinator, Language Resource Center, Cornell University, 2023

• Manage language course tutoring by interfacing with students and language tutors

• Create, edit, and publish social media content for the LRC's events using Canva, Adobe, and iMovie software applications

• Assist students and visitors to the LRC by answering questions at the front desk

Communications Assistant, Institute on the Formation of Knowledge, University of Chicago, 2023

• Serve as a digital liaison between the Institute and the public, assisting within a team and helping plan marketing campaigns and website updates to promote Institute events

• Create, edit, and publish video content using Adobe, iMovie, and Canva software applications

Chinese Tutor, Bard College at Simon's Rock, 2019-2021

Professor: Yinxue Zhao, Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese

• Conducted individual, group, and weekly tutoring and exam review sessions for students enrolled in Chinese Language and Context

• Practice lesson dialogues, grammar, pronunciation, and tones

Latin Tutor, Bard College at Simon's Rock, 2018-2019

Professor: Christopher Callanan, PhD, Professor of Classics

• Conduct individual, group, and weekly tutoring and exam review sessions for students enrolled in Accelerated Beginning Latin

• Reviewed homework assignments, verb tenses, word cases, and translations

Recreation Assistant, Interlochen Center for the Arts Camp, Summer 2019

• Designed and supervised recreational activities at world-renown music and arts educational center in Michigan for motivated campers aged 8-13

Music, Skills, and Languages

• Music: Japanese koto student, online instruction by Masayo Ishigure, Columbia University Music Performance Program (2020-2021); clarinet, jazz ensemble and chamber orchestra

• Skills: Electronic Music (Logic Pro X, SuperCollider, Audacity, Aria Maestosa), Digital Media Arts (Procreate, Unity, Blender, Premiere, iMovie), Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom), Google (Docs, Slides, Sheets, Forms)

• Languages: Educated in Chinese (advanced), Japanese (beginning), Latin (intermediate), Spanish (intermediate)

Performances, Presentations, Research

• Music: Participated in a virtual Benkyōkai Koto Concert 2020

• Simon’s Rock Theater/Film: Sorry, Wrong Number (Chief Operator and Hospital Receptionist) 2021, When the Sun Rises (student senior thesis play, Madeline) 2021, Up in Smoke (student senior thesis film, sound/tech crew) 2020, Antigone (Ismene) 2020, Twelfth Night (Sir Andrew Aguecheek) 2019, Be More Chill (Michael Mell) 2019, It Melts Away So Quickly (student film, voice acting) 2018

• Presentations: Presented Master of Arts Thesis Proposal at the Arts and Politics of East Asia (APEA) Workshop, 2022; presented senior thesis with the international Open Society University Network (OSUN) global student panel discussion for Arts and Society, 2021; presented senior thesis at the Board of Overseers Meeting, Bard Network, 2021

• University of Chicago Research Papers: “Understanding Ancient Chinese Musical Instruments Through Music in the Age of Confucius” 2022, “Historical Interpretation in the Western Zhou Period” 2022, “Character Gaze as Communication” (in “White Dog and the Swings” by Mo Yan) 2021

• Simon’s Rock Workshops: Researched and presented “Autism and Disability During the Global Pandemic” 2020 and “Autism Awareness and Acceptance on the College Campus” 2018 at the Council for Equity and Inclusion’s Symposia on Social Justice, Resilience and Refuge

• Simon’s Rock Research Papers: “Onna-girai 女嫌い: Loving Men and Hating Women” 2021, “Translations in Dao De Jing” 2020, “The Timely Art of Ikebana” 2020, “The Zither Instrument of East Asia” 2019, “Incomparable Complexity” (Vergil’s Aeneid) 2018, “The Appreciation for Trees” (Art History) 2018, “From Socrates to Lia Lee: Questions Lead to Answers” 2017

 Campus Leadership Experience

• Chinese Faculty Search Committee Upper-College Student Representative, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, 2021

Participated as a Search Committee member, student representative, in the hiring process of a faculty candidate in Chinese Language and Culture courses through reviewing applications, participating in sample classes, and interviewing applicants

• Autism Support Group, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, 2018-2021

Founder and Facilitator supporting the social, sensory, and academic experiences of college students with Autism Spectrum Disorder

• College Yearbook Editor, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, 2019-2021

Managed the committee, designed, and edited the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 yearbooks

• Intramural Cross Country, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, 2019-2020

Team Captain

• Llama Running Club, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, 2018-2020

Founder and President

 Scholarships, Honors, Awards

• Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Scholarship, Academic Year 2022-2023

• Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Scholarship, Summer 2022

• Division of Humanities Scholarship, 2021

• Languages and Literatures Senior Award, 2021

• Simon’s Rock Merit Scholarship, 2017-2021

• Rodney Christopher Scholarship for Study Abroad, 2020

• Galen Crotty Gibson Scholarship for student “deeply involved in theater,” 2019-2020

• Simon’s Rock Athletic Department Award for Intramural Cross Country and Running Club

 Interests

• Electronic, vaporwave, and traditional Asian music

• Kawaii, anime, Japanese streetwear fashion

• Tai Chi, Chinese crafts

• Joggling (juggling while jogging)

• Knitting, fibers, yarn