Xin Peng

Xin Peng is an Assistant Professor at the University of Cambridge. She holds a Ph.D. candidacy in Cinema and Media Studies from the University of Washington, Seattle, with a focus on racial and orientalist influences on media technologies in interwar American cinema. Her educational background includes an M.A. in Humanities (Cinema and Media Studies) from the University of Chicago (2016) and a B.A. in Cultural Studies from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2015).

Her research interests span critical theory, global/transnational studies, media historiography, and the intersections of race, ethnicity, and performance in media. Peng's work explores how colonial and racial frameworks shaped technological developments, particularly in early 20th-century cinema.

• Awards: 2020 Transnational Cinemas Award, 2021 Hartsock Prize, Macfarlane Scholarship, and Joff Hanauer Fellowship.
• Fellowships: 2021-22 Society of Scholars Fellow at the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities.

Her publications appear in Screen, Camera Obscura, the Women Film Pioneers Project, and New Review of Film and Television Studies. Her research emphasizes decolonizing media historiography and feminist critiques of technological narratives.