Joshua Neves

Joshua Neves is an Associate Professor of Cinema at Concordia University, Canada Research Chair, and Director of the Global Emergent Media (GEM) Lab. He previously taught at Brown University and was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto. His research focuses on global and digital media, particularly in China/Asia, cultural and political theory, media urbanism, and digital ethnography. He holds a PhD in Film and Media Studies from UC Santa Barbara.

His academic work spans edited volumes such as Asian Video Cultures (2017) and Underglobalization: Beijing’s Media Urbanism (2020). Current projects explore media and the fourth industrial revolution, video/art in internet television, and technological intimacy.

Research interests include overdevelopment, piracy, and the intersections of media with postcolonial and postsocialist networks. He teaches courses like 'Cinemas of Under/Overdevelopment' and 'Technology and Intimacy.' Office hours are Wednesdays 1–3pm (Winter 2025).