Jianqing Chen

Jianqing Chen is an Assistant Professor jointly appointed in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALC) and the Department of Film and Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. She is also a Center for the Humanities Faculty Fellow (FL24) and on leave for Spring 2025. Her research focuses on transnational Chinese film/media, digital media, post-socialism, global capitalism, media-environment intersections, and feminist theory. She holds a PhD in Film and Media with a Critical Theory emphasis from UC Berkeley (2021).

Education: PhD, Film and Media with Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory, UC Berkeley, 2021.

Her current book project examines touchscreen media's global dissemination and its transformation of user-spectator subjectivity in post-socialist China, emphasizing tactile interactions and digital infrastructures. Research also spans intermedial dynamics between literature and visual culture, streaming media, and rural revitalization in China. Office: Busch Hall 227. Mailing address: Washington University, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130.