Media and the Moving Image

Karen Fang is a film scholar and cultural critic who writes and speaks for museums and film festivals around the world. Originally trained as a Romanticist with a focus on imperial history, Prof. Fang is particularly interested in the confluence of eastern and western culture. She has written about the mutual influences of Hong Kong and Hollywood cinema, dystopian echoes of Orwellian and Huxley in contemporary Chinese fiction, nineteenth century British writing about exotic objects, and Asian American representation in art and popular culture. She is also founder and chair of the Media and Moving Image initiative, including an annual Student Prize Competition which recognizes this campus’s many kinds of media studies-related work. For The Engines of Our Ingenuity, a popular nationally distributed public radio series about science and innovation, Prof. Fang’s stories always focus on the visual arts. Her latest book is a biography of Chinese American immigrant artist and Disney Legend, Tyrus Wong.