Fan Yang / University of Maryland - Baltimore County

Fan Yang is Assistant Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Her research and teaching interests include globalization and media, media in modern and contemporary China, and visual culture. Some of her scholarship can be found in Theory, Culture & Society (in press), positions: asia critique (forthcoming), antiTHESIS, Flow TV and Public. She joined UMBC in 2011 after obtaining her Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from George Mason University, where she was the recipient of a High Potential Fellowship. She also holds an MA from the Ohio State University and a BA from Fudan University, Shanghai.