Cohort Year:
2016
Research Interests:
Cinema and media studies as related to philosophical thoughts; gender issues; affects theory
Biography
Leah Li is a media scholar and filmmaker whose Ph.D. dissertation dives into the tangled histories of science, medicine, and moving images in modern China. Blending media theory, film studies, and the history of science, her work investigates how animation and visualization craft biopolitical imaginaries. She teaches on cinema, technology, and the ways we come to see—and govern—life.
Teaching Experience
- Introduction to Film, Lecturer - Spring 2022
- Japanese Animation, CA - Winter 2021
- History of International Cinema, Part III: 1960 - Present, CA - Spring 2020
- Documentary Production II, CA - Winter 2020
- Film and the Moving Image, CA - Spring 2019