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Liz Carter is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese and Japanese Media Studies at Vassar College since 2022. She holds a PhD in Asian Languages and Cultures from the University of California, Los Angeles (2020), and a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to academia, she worked as a journalist for Foreign Policy’s Tea Leaf Nation, focusing on Chinese internet culture, and authored a book on the subject. Her academic career includes teaching positions at Pepperdine University, Occidental College, and Western Washington University.
Her research interests span language ideology in PRC mass media, inclusive Mandarin pedagogy, and the intersection of law and media. Key areas include sociolinguistics of digital activism, legal discourse analysis in televised trials, and curriculum development for inclusive language education.
Her publications since 2013 explore topics such as PRC civil society dynamics, nonconfrontational digital activism, and multimodal analysis of media confessions. Recent work (2021) emphasizes empirical studies of political control mechanisms and inclusive education frameworks in Mandarin language instruction.
Her professional contributions also include media analysis of PRC internet culture and collaborative research on legal systems. She currently advises on media studies initiatives at Vassar and maintains active engagement with both academic and journalistic communities.
