Belinda Qian He
Belinda Qian He (she/her/hers) is an assistant professor in East Asian and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She received her Ph.D. in cinema and media studies (CMS) from the University of Washington, Seattle. Before joining the ARHU-SLLC faculty at UMD, she worked as a Center for Chinese Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and taught film and media studies as a lecturer at the University of Oklahoma. Her work lies at the intersection of film/media studies, art history, and legal humanities, exploring the role of film, photography, and video in policing, punishing, and justice making.
In the Archive, in the Screening Room
Exploring how archives think, how images move and work, as well as how people make sense of justice through cinema.
Through the Lens, through the Testing Ground
Teaching. Thinking by doing.
Beyond the Academia
Writing. Curation. Activism. Public Scholarship. Collaborative Production.
