Karen Fang
Professor
- Phone: (713) 743-2949
- Email: kfang@uh.edu
- Office: 236B
- Website:
Biography
Karen Fang is a film scholar and cultural critic who writes and speaks for museums and film festivals around the world. Originally trained as a Romanticist with a focus on imperial history, Prof. Fang is particularly interested in the confluence of eastern and western culture. She has written about the mutual influences of , dystopian echoes of , nineteenth century British writing about exotic objects, and Asian American representation in art and popular culture. She is also founder and chair of the Media and Moving Image initiative, including an annual Student Prize Competition which recognizes this campus’s many kinds of media studies-related work. For The Engines of Our Ingenuity, a popular nationally distributed public radio series about science and innovation, . Her latest book is a .
Education
- MA/PhD, Johns Hopkins University, 1998, 2002
- BA, University of Pennsylvania, 1994
Research Interests
Film and media studies, visual culture, nonfiction narrative, global, imperial and postcolonial culture
Teaching
- ENGL 3301 Introduction to Literary Studies
- ENGL 3359 Hong Kong Cinema
- ENGL 4373 Forms of Film Authorship (Film, Text, and Politics)
- ENGL 4397 Biography and Creativity (Selected Topics in Literature and Film)
- ENGL 7396 Theories of the Moving Image
- ENGL 8386 Surveillance and Orientalism
- ENGL 8393 Writing for Publication
Selected Publications
(Rutgers University Press, 2024)
(Stanford University Press, 2017)
(University of Virginia Press, 2010)
“.” Nikkei Asia, March 2023
“?” Los Angeles Review of Books, October 2020
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