Jing WangAssistant Professor
A media scholar and teacher, Dr. Jing Wang’s specialties include global media industries, Chinese cinema, documentary, and film festivals. Her work sheds light on the mediating power of transnational film circulation. By examining industrial practices of producing, distributing, and exhibiting media in various national contexts, she seeks to reveal the underlying economic, political, and cultural factors that enable the transnational flows of media forms such as Chinese films, cinemas of Bollywood and Nollywood, K-dramas and K-pop, along with their resulting cultural implications. She is currently working on a book project From Periphery to Center: Chinese Independent Documentary and the Mediating Power of Transnational Circulation.
Prior to earning her Ph.D. in Media Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and joining the Department of Film and Media at Emory University, Dr. Wang served as an associate professor in the Theater, Film, and Television School at the Communication University of China. Her academic work has been published in peer-reviewed English- and Chinese-language journals, including JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Transnational Screens, Film Quarterly, Asian Journal of Communication, Contemporary Cinema, and The Velvet Light Trap.
Jing Wang also gained relevant industrial experience working in documentary filmmaking for China Central Television between 2002 and 2010. Now, in addition to her academic career, she also works as an independent film producer who is committed to promoting independent Chinese films on the international stage.
ASSOCIATIONS
- Society for Cinema and Media Studies
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2022
- M.A., Communication University of China, 2006
- B.A., Communication University of China, 2003
