Assistant High School

Nick Yeh

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City: Claremont

State: CA

Zip: 91711

Country: USA

Phone: 909-***-****

Skill Level: Assistant

Salary Range: $40,000

Primary Skills/Experience:

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Educational Background:

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Job History / Details:

Education:

PhD, Cultural Studies (Literature and Film concentration), Claremont Graduate University, Claremont Colleges (suburban Los Angeles), May 12th, 2012

Doctoral Dissertation: How one Writes, Produces, Markets a Movie and how an Audience Reads the Movie ( on film criticism, critical look on the film financing and film marketing, and audience reception of two films about Hitler) (Abstract as an attachment)

*** Claremont Graduate University is ranked 46th among top 130 graduate schools in the humanities in the US by US News & World Report

Coursework Highlights

* Field Research (interview techniques and ethics)

* Oral History (theory and practice)

* Studies on Fascism

* Independent Study with Prof Alexandra Juhasz on film criticism and stardom (Prof Juhasz's film The Watermelon Woman won a Teddy at Berlin International Film Festival in 1996.)

* Independent Study with Prof Dana Ward on political rhetoric and campaign

* Self and Identity

Qualifying Exam

* English Literature / Literary Studies

Theories on biographies (textual analysis on a biography and psychological analysis on a biographer) (Prof Jay Martin was a senior professor at Yale University.)

* Media and Film Studies

Key texts on media studies, film criticism, audiences' approaches to and interpretations of movies, narrative film's representation / reconstruction of history, political communication (including Nazi propagandas)

* Psychology

Political Psychology, an individual's emotional attachment to and identification with ethnic and national groups, psychology of extremists (both radicals and conservatives), discourse analysis, studies on leadership styles and followers, criminal psychology (psychology of serial killers, adolescent gang members, school massacre, occult leaders and their followers, longitudinal case study on an American Neo-Nazi gang member, American prison system) (Prof Michael Hogg is a world-renowned scholar on group identity.)

Master of Arts, Mental Health Counseling Psychology, Boston College, May 2004

Graduation Case Presentation: Presenting a case conceptualization / course of treatment of how to treat a patient who was a bit similar to Dustin Hoffman's character in Rain Man

***Boston College is ranked 18th in the field of psychology/education among the top 170 graduate schools in the US by US News & World Report

Coursework Highlights

* Psychopathology (diagnosing and treating Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, etc)

* Personality Theories (2 semesters)

* Career Development / Career Counseling

* Consumer Society: Gender, Class and identity (with Prof Juliet Schor) (Prof Schor was a senior professor at Harvard University.)

Bachelor of Arts, English Literature, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan, June 2002

Graduation Thesis: Novella When Two Ends Meet (a Cinderella tale set in the modern time where the prince, who suffers from amnesia and tries to retrieve his past and his true love)

Training:

* Suicide Prevention Certificate (September ~ November 2004)

* Prepare-Future-Faculty Certificate (on college teaching) (September ~ December 2005)

* One-semester screenwriting workshop with Hollywood producer / director Mr. Tom Musca (September ~ December 2006)

* Working on set with Monsieur Michel Hugo (director of cinematography for 1960s' TV series Mission: Impossible and an Emmy Nominee) responsible for props and set dressing in Las Vegas (August 2007)

Experiences:

Academic / Research

* Research assistant, Psychology Department, Claremont McKenna College to Dr. Wei-Chin Hwang (developing psychological measures, collecting and arranging questionnaires and data, translating Dr. Hwang first book) (May 2007 ~ March 2009)

Teaching & Guidance

* Teach Chinese reading and speaking at Claremont McKenna College (March 2008 ~ March 2009)

* Advise undergraduate and Master's students on applications to graduate school (100% of these students got admitted, one admitted to two PhD programs ranked top 25 in the given discipline in the US with full scholarships for 5 years) (September 2008 ~ March 2009)

Clinical

* Intern psychotherapist, Quincy Community Center, Quincy, Massachusetts (treating adolescents diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder) (June ~ September 2003)

* Intern psychotherapist, Supported Employment Program, Brighton, Massachusetts (treating mentally challenged patients diagnosed with Agoraphobia) (October 2003 ~ May 2004)

Creative Writing

* Screenwriter under contract, Zahra Pictures, Anaheim, California (November 2009 ~ April 2011)

* In-house writer, World on Fire Entertainment, Burbank, California (November 2011 ~ present)

* Producer and writer for short romantic action espionage film Who Do You Love Better, Vera's Production, Santa Monica, California (June 2012 ~ present)

Selected Writing Projects:

* Radio drama Close Call (a group of kids discovering an illegal deal by accident and being hunted by the criminals) (July 1993)

* Short story "The Hellfire" (a group of college students working as secret agents during WWII) (July 1996)

* Short story "Swift to Hear, Slow to Speak" (students and teachers trying to fight against and get rid of the dictator-like principal at a "totalitarian" school, partially inspired by true events) (February 1997)

* Short story "Revenge in Need for Betrayal Indeed" (political struggle and conspiracy at the student newspaper office, a bit of a high school student version of Mission: Impossible) (June 1998)

* Radio drama The Eve (an investigation of a suicide case which unveils a forbidden love under the Nazi regime; a song written for the radio drama) (March 1999)

* Short story "Asunder" (a psychological look into a murder case in a traditional Chinese house where everyone, including the detective, ends up dying a peculiar death) (July 1999)

* Radio drama Another Christmas Eve (a platonic love between two child workers; a song written for the radio drama) (November 1999)

* Three short scripts (film noir / crime-espionage / action thriller) (January 2011)

* Two short scripts (action / film noir / crime) written for a production team (August 2011)

* Feature-length script Mission Terra Sol-3 (Sci-fi espionage feature about Martians' attempt to liberate Earthlings living under a totalitarian regime) (December 2011)

Conferences / Paper Presentations:

* an essay on Hitchcock's film Life Boat (1944)-- "Life Boat (1944): Playhouse of Politics, Morals and Laws" (at International Conference of Images, held in conjunction with St Sebastian International Film Festival) (September, 2011)

* an essay on translation in psychology "Translation in Psychology and Education: Some Challenges and Solutions to those Challenges" (at International Conference of the Humanities) (June, 2012, upcoming)

Publication:

* A film criticism article "Watching Joy Luck Club: Theorizing the Anachronism" published in the International Journal of the Humanities, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 311 - 319 (July 2010)

Honors:

Academic

* Hua-Nan Commercial Bank Scholarship (1998 ~ 2002)

* ITRI Scholarship (1998 ~ 2002)

* Dr. Chen-Yi Tsang Scholarship of Arts and Humanities (2000)

* Boston College Lynch School of Education Graduate Student Fellowship (2002 ~ 2004)

* Claremont Graduate University PhD Student Fellowship (2005 ~ 2007)

* Kozmetsky Trans-disciplinary / Inter-disciplinary Dissertation Scholarship(2009 ~ 2010)

* Claremont Graduate University Humanities Dissertation Scholarship (2010 ~ 2011)

Creative Writing

* Finalist, 1st Annual Lone Star Action Fest Screenplay Competition (July, 2011)

Dissertation Abstract

According to John Lukacs (key scholar on Hitler and Nazism), German people's views on Hitler and Nazism once got examined right after the fall the Third Reich in the 1950s but this subject has lost its appeal since then. How do Germans nowadays, specifically those young ones raised in the "New Germany" after the fall of the Berlin Wall, think of Hitler and their country's Nazi legacy

This dissertation is to explore how six young Germans growing up in the new "unified Germany" interpret two films' representations of Hitler and Nazism.

Chapter 1 is a typical textual analysis informed by theories and analytical techniques from literary and film studies, examining how two production companies' basic political positions are reflected through numerous filmic semiotics and elements used in the films.

Chapter 2 explores the financing of those two films, in particular how the financing might determine the two production companies' political stances.

Chapter 3 looks at how a group of young Germans approaches film texts in general and interprets two biographical films of Hitler (an Emmy's nominee Hitler: the Rise of Evil (2003) and an Oscar winner Der Untergang (2004).

Chapter 4 is the researcher's self-analysis, a critical look on his process of conducting the research project.

The basic argument is that filmmakers need to move away from a pure demonization of Hitler because now the audience is calling for a better-rounded depiction of Germany's former Fuehrer.

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