Cui Zhou

Biography

Cui Zhou is a visiting assistant professor of Chinese. Her research areas include modern Chinese literature, film, and popular culture. She specializes in the study of the representation of Chinese ethnic minorities in films and minorities’ participation in the film field. Her articles on topics such as Chinese and Asian films can be seen in peer-reviewed journals and scholarly books. She is currently working on transforming her dissertation “Cinematic Mappings of Chinese Ethnic Minorities: Discourse Dynamics in National and Translocal Film Production, Consumption, and Circulation, 1949-1999,” which explores the cinematic negotiations with ethnic minorities in China and the overseas Sinophone world, into a book project. She teaches courses on Chinese language, literature, film, and ethnic minority culture.