About Ailin Zhou

I am a first-year PhD student in Film & Digital Media at University of California, Santa Cruz. Prior to my PhD, I earned an MA 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 Chinese cinema, Asian diasporic visual culture, contemporary art, and feminist and queer theories.

NBN Episodes hosted by Ailin:

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…