Weixian Pan

Weixian Pan, Assistant Professor, Department of Film and Media, Queen's University

Weixian Pan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media at Queen’s University. She holds a PhD in Film and Moving Image Studies from Concordia University, Montreal. Before joining Queen’s University, she was Assistant Professor of Interactive Media Arts at NYU Shanghai from 2019-2023. Her research interests center on the politics of visuality, critical media infrastructure, and environmental media. Her current book project, Frontier Vision: The Geopolitics of Seeing China’s Borderlands, examines how China’s geopolitical aspirations have been hyper-mediated and entangled with the logic of frontier-making between the mid-twentieth century and the present. This book project was also supported by the Luce/ACLS Early Career Fellowships in China Studies (2024-2025) from the American Council of Learned Societies.

Her work appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Television and New Media, Culture Machine, Asiascape: Digital Asia, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, and Journal of Environmental Media. In the past, she has led curatorial projects such as “Elemental Relations: Thinking Ecologically through Artist Film and Video” (2021) and co-organizes workshops such as “Strata of the Asia Pacific: Mediating the Geologic and Aquatic Environment” that fosters interdisciplinary conversations across scholars and artists.

Recent publication:

• “Energy and Media,” Special Journal Issue co-edit with Yandong Li (University of Washington). Journal of Chinese Cinema, forthcoming Fall 2025.

• “Crash Landing on the Philippines: Transnational Korean Dramas and Internet Infrastructure Desires.” Television and New Media, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1177/15274764241242403

Institutional page:  https://www.queensu.ca/filmandmedia/people-search/weixian-pan
Twitter profile: @hannah_panpo