PhD Student
Xinyue Wang is a PhD student in media studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She holds an MFA in film from the Beijing Film Academy and a BA in English from the University of Science and Technology Beijing.
Her research interests encompass two aspects. She focuses on the intersection of critical media industry studies, trauma studies, and feminist film studies, with a special emphasis on both the on-screen and off-screen contexts of female-authored genre film and television, particularly in horror, crime, and science fiction genres. Aside from that, her research interest lies in the connection between haptics technology, immersive narrative media, and female pleasure through feminist STS, affect theory, and feminist media studies. Her work is forthcoming in Screen Bodies (Vol. 9.1).