Qingyang Freya Zhou (she/her) is a PhD candidate in German and Film Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on gendered encounters between Germany and East Asia, socialist internationalism, and migration studies. She has been a Junior Fellow at Seoul National University’s Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies and a Dissertation Research Fellow at the Free University’s Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies. Freya’s recent journal articles on Asian German film and media have appeared in Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies (2022) and German Studies Review (2023), and have won the Coalition of Women in German (WiG) Best Article Prize and the German Studies Association Graduate Student Essay Prize. Her co-edited volume with Qinna Shen and Zach Ramon Fitzpatrick, Charting Asian German Film History: Imagination, Collaboration, and Diasporic Representation, was published by Camden House in June 2025.