Theatre Arts & Performance Studies

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is an associate professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. Professor Chun does research in new media, comparative media studies, Asian-American culture, and critical theory. She has studied both Systems Design Engineering and English Literature, which she combines and mutates in her current work on digital media. She is author of _Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics_ (MIT, 2006), and co-editor (with Thomas Keenan) of _New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader (Routledge, 2005). She has been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard and a Wriston Fellow at Brown. AY 2006-2007, she is a visiting scholar and visiting associate professor in the History of Science Department at Harvard forx. She is currently working on a monograph entitled _Programmed Visions: Software, DNA, Race_ (forthcoming MIT, 2008).