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About Ailin Zhou
I am a PhD student in Film & Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Prior to my PhD, I earned an MA in Film & Media Studies from Columbia University and a BA from Peking University in China. My professional experience includes working with film festivals, art museums, and galleries in both China and the United States.NBN Episodes hosted by Ailin:
January 28, 2026
Technologies of Kinship
Delving into the complex interplay of race, kinship, and technology, Technologies of Kinship: Asian American Racialization and the Making of Family (N…
December 23, 2025
Settler Attachments and Asian Diasporic Film
Settler Attachments and Asian Diasporic Film (University of Minnesota Press, 2025) is an interdisciplinary examination of the stubborn attachment of A…
July 18, 2025
Social Media and Ordinary Life
Focusing on domestic workers, rural microentrepreneurs, disadvantaged young creatives, and young feminists, Social Media and Ordinary Life (NYU Press,…
May 15, 2025
Embodying Normalcy
Embodying Normalcy: Women’s Work in Neoliberal Times (Lexington Books, 2024) calls attention to how women in the United States do a type of unpaid wor…
April 11, 2025
Confessional Video Art and Subjectivity
Confessional Video Art and Subjectivity Private Experiences in Public Spaces (Bloomsbury, 2025) examines the development of the confessional subject i…
April 6, 2025
Seeking News, Making China
Contemporary developments in communications technologies have overturned key aspects of the global political system and transformed the media landscap…
March 1, 2025
Women's Transborder Cinema
Can we write women’s authorial roles into the history of industrial cinema in South Asia? How can we understand women’s creative authority and access …
February 24, 2025
Religion, Secularism, and Love As a Political Discourse in Modern China
What is the meaning of love in modern Chinese politics? Why has 愛 ai (love) been a crucial political discourse for secular nationalism for generation…
January 15, 2025
Staging Sovereignty
Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy (Columbia University Press, 2024) explores the relationship between theater and sovereignty in moder…
January 10, 2025
Interactive Cinema
Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation (University of Minnesota Press, 2024) engages with a multitude of unconventional appro…
November 7, 2024
Care Activism
Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building, and Communities of Care (U Illinois Press, 2023) challenges the stereotype of downtrodden …
September 29, 2024
Youth and Suicide in American Cinema
Listener note: This interview contains discussions of suicide. Resources for people in a crisis: If you or someone you know is in a crisis or is fe…
August 8, 2024
How Documentaries Went Mainstream
How Documentaries Went Mainstream: A History, 1960-2022 (Oxford University Press, 2023) provides a more comprehensive and meaningful periodization of …
July 2, 2024
Asians on Demand
Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) explores a multilingual archive of contemporary queer…
June 5, 2024
The Green Power of Socialism
In The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology (MIT Press, 2024), Elena Kochetkova examines the…
May 15, 2024
At Home in Nature
In his latest book At Home in Nature: Technology, Labor, and Critical Ecology in Modern China (Duke UP, 2022), Ban Wang uses an ecocritical lens to ex…