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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
modern and contemporary Chinese media & cultural studies
documentary studies
Chinese cinemas
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
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- Staff
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