About Ailin Zhou

I am a second-year PhD student in Film & Digital Media at 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.
Ailin Zhou is a PhD student in Film and Digital Media at University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research interests include transnational socialist film and media, Chinese film history, Asian diasporic visual culture, contemporary art, and feminist and queer theories.

NBN Episodes hosted by Ailin:

Ethel Tungohan, "Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building, and Communities of Care" (U Illinois Press, 2023)

November 7, 2024

Care Activism

Ethel Tungohan
Hosted by Ailin Zhou

Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building, and Communities of Care (U Illinois Press, 2023) challenges the stereotype of downtrodden …

Alessandra Seggi, "Youth and Suicide in American Cinema: Context, Causes, and Consequences" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

September 29, 2024

Youth and Suicide in American Cinema

Alessandra Seggi
Hosted by Ailin Zhou

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…

Nora Stone, "How Documentaries Went Mainstream: A History, 1960-2022" (Oxford UP, 2023)

August 8, 2024

How Documentaries Went Mainstream

Nora Stone
Hosted by Ailin Zhou

How Documentaries Went Mainstream: A History, 1960-2022 (Oxford University Press, 2023) provides a more comprehensive and meaningful periodization of …

Feng-Mei Heberer, "Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

July 2, 2024

Asians on Demand

Feng-Mei Heberer
Hosted by Ailin Zhou

Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) explores a multilingual archive of contemporary queer…

Elena Kochetkova, "The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology" (MIT Press, 2024)

June 5, 2024

The Green Power of Socialism

Elena Kochetkova
Hosted by Ailin Zhou

In The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology (MIT Press, 2024), Elena Kochetkova examines the…

Ban Wang, "At Home in Nature: Technology, Labor, and Critical Ecology in Modern China" (Duke UP, 2022)

May 15, 2024

At Home in Nature

Ban Wang
Hosted by Ailin Zhou

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…