Miao Wang

miaowang@uchicago.edu miaomartinwang@gmail.com

Education

Ph.D. Student, Cinema and Media Studies

2024 – present

University of Chicago

Dissertation: “[Title]: [Subtitle]”
Committee: [Member 1], [Member 2], [Member 3]
Field Exams: Politics of Computing, Materialisms, and Media Theories
Graduate Certificate in Digital Studies

M.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures

2023

Columbia University

B.A., English and World Literatures (Honor Program)

2021

Tsinghua University

Research Interests

History and politics of computing, cryptography and authentication, artificial intelligence, materialisms and materiality, science and technology studies, media history and theory, Chinese film and media.

Publications

“Formatting Chinese Cinema: Small-Gauge Film Projectors in the Socialist Era.”

forthcoming • The Moving Image

Honors & Grants

  • 2025 Essay Award, Nontheatrical Film & Media Scholarly Interest Group of Society for Cinema and Media Studies
  • 2020 Qing He Scholarship, School of Humanities, Tsinghua University
  • 2017–2020 Tsinghua College Honor Program Scholarship (four times)
  • 2018–2020 Student Research Training (SRT) Program Grant (three times)
  • 2019 International Conference Grant, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University

Presentations

“Humanness in Flux: CAPTCHAs, the War on Bots, and Digital Capitalism.”

Society for Cinema and Media Studies • Chicago, IL • March 26–29, 2026

“Defining Humanness in CAPTCHAs.”

Graduate Research Forum, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago • September 25, 2025

Languages

Mandarin Chinese (native) German (beginner) Python