Ellen Y. Chang | Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media

Graduate Student

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Fields of Interest

Aesthetics Art History Asian American Critical Theory Digital Humanities East Asian Film/Cinema New Media Sound Studies Visual Arts Visual Culture

Biography

Doctoral Candidate, Cinema & Media, University of Washington

M.A. in Cinema Studies, New York University

M.A. in Cinema Studies, Ohio University

B.A. in English, National Central University, Taiwan

Ellen Chang is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media at the UW, and is writing a dissertation on the transactional encounter between contemporary Taiwanese video art/installation, cinema, and popular culture as processes of aesthetic decolonization. Her recent work on sound and audio walks sees this relationship as borne out of Taiwan’s complex historical relationship with China. As a simultaneous film scholar and art curator/practitioner, she is moving towards more engaged, sensitive, and practical understandings of how multimedia art reflects the (re-)occurring themes of everyday politics across international geographies. Her project, “Untitled Vignettes: Multisensory Encounter, Audiovisual Symphony, and the Contemporary Multimedia Art of Taiwan,” received the 2019 Digital Humanities Summer Fellowship from the UW Simpson Center for the Humanities. She is currently the committee member of the UW Taiwan Studies’ 2020 workshop, Land/scaping Taiwan (Non-)Humans, Environment, and Moments of Encounter, and the managing editor for Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal.