About
Tinghao Zhou is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Michigan Society of Fellows and the Department of Film, Television, and Media at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. in Film and Media Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on the intersections of media theory, environmental humanities and justice, science and technology studies, and digital cultures in China and beyond. His current book project, At the Ends of Media, explores the material and political impacts of the global media economy on local communities, labor conditions, and ecologies. Tinghao's writings have been published in Media-N and Heliotrope and are forthcoming in Journal of Environmental Media and Waste Collection. His translations have appeared in Media+Environment. His research has been supported by the UCSB Chancellor's Fellowship, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI), among others. He currently serves as both Associate Editor and Review Editor for the peer-reviewed, open-access journal Media+Environment.
Field(s) of Study
- Environmental humanities (environmental media studies, discard studies, and environmental justice)
- Feminist science and technology studies (reproductive politics, chemical infrastructure, transcorporeality, technologies of governance)
- Sensory studies (smell studies, sensory ethnography, sensory media)
- Disability studies (occupational diseases, sensibility and debility, public health and politics)
- Critical infrastructure studies (media infrastructures, labor, dependency theory)
- Asian digital media and cultures (media globalization, pop cultures, populist politics)
