Services Make a Difference
I love to see living, working, and thinking across border as an enduring opportunity to observe and serve; to learn from and work with; and to co-create transformative experiences with students, colleagues, mentors, collaborators, and friends, among many others, especially those underrepresented and marginalized. All the communal services have stretched and challenged my ways of thinking, exposing me to people’s diverse and even conflicting ideas that I would not have otherwise encountered—some of which have found their way into and stimulated both my scholarship and teaching.
Selected Services
Committees and Campus Services
Moderator, “The Nomadic Artist in the Chinese Diasporas” Virtual Conference, co-organized by Department of Art History and Archaeology, UMD and The Judith Neilson Chair of Contemporary Art, University of New South Wales, Sydney, April 25, 2024.
Moderator, “Techno-Futures: Collaborations in Performance, Technology, and Creative Scholarship,” An International Symposium about Technology in Contemporary East Asian Performance”, School of Dance, Theatre, and Performance Studies; School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, UMD, March 7-9, 2024.
Collegiate Council, College of Arts and Humanities, University of Maryland College Park, (2023- ).
Committee Member, SLLC Faculty Salary & Merit Committee, University of Maryland College Park, (2024-2026).
Committee Member, FMS course curriculum committee, course curriculum development for the Film and Media Studies program, University of Oklahoma (2021 - 2022).
Committee Member, Film & Media Studies Students Awards Committee, University of Oklahoma (2021 - 2022).
Participant, General Education Assessment Committee, University of Oklahoma, (February 2022 - May 2022).
Reviewing Activities for Journals and Presses
Manuscript Reviewer for:
MIT Press
Journal of Environmental Media
Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images
Mortality: A Journal in the interdisciplinary study of death and dying
Reviewing Activities for Conferences/Associations
Organizer/Reviewer, for Landscaping Taiwan Conference, Taiwan Studies Program, UW 2020.
Committee Member, for the Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award committee, SCMS, 2024–2026.
Community Engaged Practice
Speaker, “How Cinema Judges Us/Women,” Youxing Bookstore, Chengdu, July 26, 2024.
Speaker, “When Women Laugh: Discussions about Sexual Violence and Evidence from the Perspective from Film and Media Studies,” White + Black Documentary Film Lab, Chengdu, July 25, 2024.
Speaker, “How to Plant Oneself: Survivors’ Communal Gathering,” Hong Kong, June 2024.
Co-discussant, “Yisheng yisi: Temporality, Motherhood, Documentary” Post-screening discussion with Zhuoyi Wang, Hong Kong, June 2024.
Faculty Advisor and Speaker, Students’ Living Library, the United World at University of Oklahoma, October 2021.
Speaker, “She Said, He Sued: A Self-ethnographic Account of #MeToo Experiences in China,” North America Feminism Winter Camp, January 16, 2021.
Discussant, “Northeast China in Film History,” “Listening to Cinema,” “Global Leftist Films,” “How Would We Imagine the Pain of Others,” the CineCulture discussion series, held through Clubhouse, Spring 2020.
Interpreter, “Holding Your Hands in the Darkness: A Conversation with the Author of Black Box, Shiori Ito (Japanese journalist and filmmaker),” as part of The Power of Women: Shiori Ito’s Book Tour in China event series, Chengdu, China, July 22, 2019.
Co-organizer, Dissent Images Graduate Research Cluster, UW Seattle, 2019-20.
Speaker for Seattle Taiwanese American Film Festival Opening Panel (with Yomi Braester and Ellen Chang), Seattle International Film Festival, UW Taiwan Studies Program, Seattle, 2018.
Review Committee, Deep Focus Best Film Criticism Award, Dec-Feb 2018.
Co-organizer, Inter-Asian Historiophoty Graduate Research Cluster, UW, 2017-18.
Facilitator, “Redefining the Sinophone Cinema Sphere,” UW Seattle, October 2017.
“Playing with Cinema,” invited talk at “The Dreamers’ Summer Gathering for Films” Deep Focus Cinephilia Workshop, Beijing, August 26, 2017.
Interpreter (with Darren Byler), Reading and Discussion Workshop with Four Prominent Chinese Poets and Artists(part of “Ekphrastic Connections: Word/Image Conference”) Seattle, Oct. 2016.
Facilitator, “New Media in the Sinophone Sphere” Workshop sponsored by the Chiang Ching-kuo Inter-University Center for Sinology, UW, May 2016.
Co-organizer, Moving Images Graduate Research Cluster, UW Seattle, 2015-16.
Facilitator, “The Current State of Chinese/Sinophone Cinema Studies” Workshop, UW Seattle, June 2015.
Facilitator, Workshop on Chinese Independent Documentary with Yomi Braester and Wu Wenguang, UW Seattle, November 2014.
