Harvey Loh is a Ph.D. student of German with a Designated Emphasis in Classics and Classical Receptions. Growing up in multicultural and multilingual Malaysia for the first formative seventeen years of his life has bestowed upon him with fluency in five languages—Hokkien (his mother tongue), Malay (the national language), English (Malaysia was part of the British Empire), Mandarin (taught at school), and Cantonese (the language of popular Chinese period dramas). He took Japanese, French, and German courses at Sierra College and tutored those languages as a PASS peer tutor (student tutor) in the Sierra College Tutoring Center. While double majoring in both Japanese and German at UC Davis as an undergraduate student from 2021 to 2024, he established and ran two language learning clubs at UC Davis, namely The Learned Society for Classical Japanese Research at UC Davis and The German Fantasy Association at UC Davis. His mother tongue—Hokkien (福建話)—shares many cognate historical Middle Chinese pronunciations of Chinese characters from the Jin 晉 (266–420) and Tang 唐 (618–907) dynasties with Japanese, and this has allowed him to excel in the Japanese courses at UC Davis. His Chinese proficiency bestowed upon him the linguistic skills needed to excel in the German courses at UC Davis because German is morphologically and syntactically similar to both contemporary Chinese and Classical Chinese. Harvey is in love with German and feels that German is the most “Chinese” European language, and Chinese the most “German” East Asian language. In addition, his fluency in Malay allows him to enjoy and appreciate both Latin and Greek as many of the Sanskrit loanwords in Malay are cognates of Latin and Greek words because Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit are conservative descendants of Proto-Indo-European. He received the highest honors for his Japanese senior honors thesis project entitled “An English Translation with Annotations of Volume Eight of Tachibana Morikuni’s Ehon Tsūhōshi—A Picture Book: A Record of Universal Treasures” in 2024 in which he translated a multitextual Edo period Kanbun-Kobun (漢文-古文: "Classical Chinese-Classical Japanese") treatise on Chinese landscape painting into English. Moreover, he is currently taking both Greek and Latin courses alongside his German graduate courses and enjoys medieval literature from both the East and the West.

Harvey wishes to recognize and honor Adhithi Anjali (graduated) and Brandon Blecman (the current Vice President)—the original founders of the club's Discord server—for their passionate initial endeavors towards laying the foundations for the club.