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Karen Fang

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Karen Fang is Professor in the Department of English, and founder and chair of the CLASS initiative in Media and the Moving Image. A scholar of literature as well as film, Karen Fang is interested in literary and visual narrative under conditions of global capitalism. Her books include Arresting Cinema: Surveillance in Hong Kong Film (Stanford University Press 2017); Romantic Writing and the Empire of Signs (University of Virginia Press 2010); and John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow (Hong Kong University Press 2004). She also is a regular contributor to the nationally distributed public radio series, The Engines of Our Ingenuity. A firm believer in art’s value for civic engagement, Fang is a frequent speaker and collaborator with museums and film festivals around the world. She is currently at work on a biography about Chinese immigrant artist and Disney Legend, Tyrus Wong.