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Dr Xin Peng is an Assistant Professor in Film and Screen Studies at the University of Cambridge, affiliated with the Cambridge Film & Screen research group and the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics. Her work uniquely bridges American film history, media technologies, and racial formation studies.
- PhD in Film Studies (University of Washington, Seattle)
- MA in Cinema Studies (University of Chicago)
- BA in Comparative Literature (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Xin Peng's research interrogates the intersections of media technologies and racial politics, particularly in 20th-century American cinema. She explores topics like early sound technology and racialized labor in Hollywood, Technicolor aesthetics and Orientalism, and transnational film historiography. Her current manuscript investigates San Francisco’s Chinatown telephone exchange (1894-1949) and its overlooked women operators as media actors.
Her publications in top journals like Camera Obscura, Screen, and Journal of Cinema and Media Studies reveal patterns in how racial capitalism shaped Hollywood’s technological transitions and star systems. Notably, her 2024 essay on the Chinatown telephone exchange won the Race and Histories of Technology Prize from the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT).
- Race and Histories of Technology Prize (SHOT, 2024)
Peng has held editorial roles at Early Popular Visual Culture (Book Reviews Editor) and Feminist Media Histories (Managing Editor). Her methodological approach combines archival research, media archaeology, and critical race theory to reconstruct marginalized narratives in film history.
