Qingyang Freya Zhou (she/her) is a Research Assistant Professor in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. She received her PhD in German, with a Designated Emphasis in Film Studies, from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2026. Her first monograph in progress, Divisive Kinship: The Long Cold War in Korean German Film and Literature, examines literary and cinematic representations of national division across East/West Germany and North/South Korea from 1900 to the present. Freya has published two award-winning journal articles on Asian diasporic cinema in Seminar and German Studies Review and co-edited the anthology Charting Asian German Film History (Camden House, 2025).