Ann Lyuwenyu Zhang
PhD Candidate
Dissertation
Title: Keeping Other Memories: Inside Unofficial Chinese Moving Image Archives
Supervisor: Zhen Zhang
Situated between historiography and cultural studies, my dissertation records and elucidates the cultures of various scales of unofficial Chinese moving image archives. It theorizes the archive as an important yet overlooked nexus point that functions as a site of memory-making activities generating cultural discourses in contemporary China.
Bio
Ann Lyuwenyu Zhang is a PhD candidate in the department of Cinema Studies at New York University. She received her MA from the University of Southern California and her BA from Emerson College. Lyuwenyu’s primary research interests center around film archives, early cinema, film preservation, and East Asian studies. She is also interested in the intersection of Deaf culture and media studies. She has published book reviews in The Moving Image and Film Quarterly.