Jing WangAssistant Professor
As a media scholar, Dr. Jing Wang specializes in global media industries, documentary, film festivals, and Chinese independent cinema. Her work sheds light on the mediating power of transnational film circulation, which operates through the structures and practices by which global media industries produce and distribute cultural content. Through this lens, she seeks to reveal the underlying economic, political, and cultural dynamics that have shaped and enabled transnational flows. Her current book project, From Periphery to Center: Chinese Independent Documentary and the Mediating Power of Transnational Circulation, examines how transborder circulation has simultaneously enhanced and diminished the cultural specificities of Chinese independent documentaries as they seek greater visibility on the global stage.
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. In Emory's Department of Film and Media, Dr. Wang teaches courses including Film 285: Global Media Industries, Film 250: International Film Festivals, Film 101: Introduction to Film, and Film 204: Documentary Film and Media History. 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. In addition, she has been a recipient of the URC-Halle Institute Global Research Award, Emory’s University Research Committee grant, and the Scholarly Writing and Publishing Fund Award.
Dr. Wang has 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 works as an independent film producer 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
