GUEST LECTURES

“Animation and Transmediality ,” Guest lecture for “Readings in Contemporary Chinese Literature: Transmedia Practices” (Yiwen Wang), University of California San Diego, April 21, 2021.

“Animal Media ,” Guest Lecture for “Introduction to East Asian Media Studies” (Yuriko Furuhata), McGill University, February 2020.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Monster Hunt and the Affective Human-Monster Communication,” in panel “Media Ecologies in Anthropocene: East Asian Perspectives,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, March 19, 2021.

“Assembling the History of Difference: Independent Animation in Postsocialist China,” The Inaugural Conference of the Association for Chinese Animation Studies, March 15, 2021.

“Monster Hunt and the Affective Human-Monster Communication,” SCMS Talks at the Digital Media Workshop, University of Chicago, March 1, 2021.

“Technologies of Sounds, Waves, and Socialist Sovereignty: Listening to Enemy Radio in Mao’s China.” Democracy and Digital Media, Comparative Media Studies MIT, Massachusetts, May 17-18, 2019.

“How to Eat a Monster: The Production of Animated Special Effects in Monster Hunt (2015).” Media Production as Media Theory Workshop, Concordia University, Montreal, 1-2 February 2019.

“Clandestine Listening to Enemy Radio (Ditai) in Socialist China.” Radio Asia Pasifika: Cultural Broadcasting in the Asia-Pacific Region, Nottingham University, Nottingham, 19-20 October 2018.

“Traveling Monkey King in the Maoist Era.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 17-20 March 2016.

“From Local to Translocal: Story of McDull.” Masterclass on East Asian Cinemas, Centre for Cultural Studies, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 27-28 November 2015.

“From Local to Translocal: An Anthropomorphic Story of McDull.” Traveling Text/Image/Media: The Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature Conference, Shanghai, 18-20 June 2015.