Tim Shao-Hung Teng

Tim Shao-Hung Teng is a doctoral candidate in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, where he holds a Presidential Fellowship. His research focuses on the ecological properties of Chinese-language cinema and media from the late nineteenth through the twentieth century, with broader interests in animation studies, infrastructure studies, media theory, queer theory, and the legacies of poststructuralist theory in the age of digitization and global climate change. He is at work writing a dissertation titled “Earthbound Mediation: Geological Entanglements in the Extractive Zone,” which studies the enmeshment of media technologies with practices of salt, coal, oil, and metal extraction from hinterland China to archipelagic Taiwan. His work has appeared in positions: asia critique, Screen, New Review of Film and Television Studies, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, Taiwan Insight, and is forthcoming in the edited volume Chinese Animation: Multiplicities in Motion. Teng received an MA in Film and Media Studies from Columbia University and an MA and a BA in Foreign Languages and Literatures from National Taiwan University. His curatorial experiences include internship in the Department of Film at MoMA in NYC as well as ongoing collaboration with Harvard Film Archive on East Asian film programs.