Dr. Fan Yang

Professor · Tenured

Department of Media & Communication Studies Language, Literacy and Culture

College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

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About

Fan Yang is Professor in the Department of Media and Communication Studies and the Director of Asian Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).

Research interests

modern and contemporary Chinese media, globalization and China, transnationalism, (Asian) American studies

Teaching interests

media, communication and globalization, cultural studies, visual culture, urbanism and urban communication, eco-media

Education

  • Ph D, Cultural Studies — George Mason University (2011)
    Faked in China: Nation Branding, Counterfeit Culture, and the Postsocialist State in Globalization
  • MBA, Business Administration and Management — Strayer University (2005)
  • MA, Arts Policy and Administration — The Ohio State University (2003)
    Launching an Ethnic-Specific Cultural Organization: A Case Study of an Embryonic Nonprofit - The Weaving Pine
  • BA, International Business — Fudan University (2000)

Publications

Presentations

  • An Asian American Reckoning: A Conversation with Cathy Park Hong 2022 Humanities Forum with Cathy Park Hong · The Dresher Center for the Humanities · Reading of Creative Work/Performance Cathy Park Hong (Author & Presenter), Fan Yang (Moderator)
  • Staying True to Both Decolonizing Practice and China’s Epistemic Alterity? 2022 The Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting · The Asian Studies Association · Oral Presentation Louisa Schein (Author & Presenter), Fan Yang
  • Staying True to Both Decolonizing Practice and China’s Epistemic Alterity? 2021 The American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting · Society for East Asian Anthropology, American Anthropological Association · Oral Presentation Louisa Schein (Author & Presenter), Fan Yang

Grants and Contracts

  • Residential Faculty Research Fellowship 2020 Dresher Center for the Humanities · Fellowship
  • Special Research Assistantship/Initiative Support (SRAIS) 2015 UMBC · Grant · Funded
  • Summer Faculty Research Fellowship 2014 Dresher Center for the Humanities · Fellowship · Funded

Press topics

China in 21st-century American culture and politics, transnational media