Professor Wendy Hui Kyong Chun 

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Professor of Modern Culture and Media

Brown University

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Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She has studied both Systems Design Engineering and English Literature, which she combines and mutates in her current work on digital media. She is author of Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (MIT 2006),  Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (MIT 2011), and Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (MIT 2016).  She is co-editor (with Tara McPherson and Patrick Jagoda) of a special issue of American Literature entitled New Media and American Literature, co-editor (with Lynne Joyrich) of a special issue of Camera Obscura entitled Race and/as Technology and co-editor (with Anna Fisher and Thomas Keenan) of New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader, 2nd edition (Routledge 2016). 

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Dr. Karen Fang

 

Associate Professor in the Department of English

University of Houston

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 Karen Fang is the author of the forthcoming book Arresting Cinema: Surveillance in Hong Kong Film (Stanford, January 2017).  A scholar of literature as well as film, Fang has also published studies of British Romantic literature (Romantic Writing and the Empire of Signs: Periodical Culture and Post-Napoleonic Authorship, University of Virginia Press, 2010) and celebrated Hong Kong action auteur John Woo (John Woo's "A Better Tomorrow", Hong Kong University Press, 2004). Her newest research project combines both fields to explore surveillance and orientalism, from the nineteenth century to the present.

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To pre-order the forthcoming book on surveillance and Hong Kong cinema Arresting Cinema by Karen Fang, follow this link to SUP's site.

 

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