Luwei Wang

Visiting Lecturer of Chinese Literature, Language, and Culture

Primary Academic Program: Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures

Academic Expertise: Classical Studies

Biography: Luwei Wang is a scholar of modern and contemporary Chinese literature and culture, visual studies, and media studies. She specializes in contemporary Chinese visual culture, with particular attention to the intersections of digital media, documentary and art practices, and theorizations of visuality. She is currently working on her book project titled Compound Eyes: Critical Modes of Seeing in Twenty-first Century Chinese Independent Documentary and Art, which explores how practitioners of independent documentary and experimental art in China use digital media to critically reimagine modes of seeing by appropriating machinic vision to confront fractured realities, challenge dominant epistemologies, and open new possibilities for ethical engagement. Her articles are forthcoming in Camera Obscura and the edited volume of Speculative Fiction from the Sinophone.



BA, Dalian University of Foreign Languages; MA, Washington University in St. Louis; MA, PhD, University of Wisconsin Madison.