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Huanruo Wang

Assistant Professor

20242024

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Huanruo Wang (王涣若) joined the Department of Media and Communications as an assistant professor in 2024. She received her doctoral degree in Chinese film and media studies from Harvard University in 2023. Huanruo's research interests lie in modern and contemporary Chinese media cultures, especially varied reality-based media forms and practices such as DV documentary, reality TV, and livestreaming. She has conducted fieldwork in media industries diversely as assistant director, editor and production assistant in different documentary-related projects.  

Research interests

film and media cultures of modern and contemporary China

documentary studies

livestreaming and platformized labor

media ethnography

literary studies

Experience

Assistant Professor, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 2024

Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, 2019-2021

Awards and honours

GSAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Harvard, 2022-2023

Fairbank Center and Harvard China, Travel Funding Initiative, 2021

Bok Center Certificate for Distinction in Teaching, Harvard, Spring 2021 

Desmond and Whitney Shum Fellowship, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, 2019

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Fellowship, Harvard, 2016-2021

Harvard-Yenching Fellowship, 2014-2016

Education/Academic qualification

M.A. Comparative Literature, Fudan University, China

M.A. Regional Studies-East Asia, Harvard University, United States

Ph.D. East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, United States

B.A. Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing University, China

Person Types

  • Staff

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