Aubrey Tang
Lecturer; Directing, Editing, Film Studies
Film and Media Arts, Lawrence and Kristina Dodge College of Film and Media Arts
Office Location: Marion Knott Studios 266
Email: autang@chapman.edu
Biography
Aubrey completed her Ph.D. dissertation, "Hong Kong Experience: Johnnie To's Cinema
and the Phenomenology of the Senses," at UC Irvine. Her research interests include
film theory, phenomenology of perception, as well as Chinese and Sinophone cinemas.
Before enrolling in her graduate programs, she was a published short-story author,
a columnist, a translator, a radio host, and a wedding singer in Hong Kong and the
United States. Her academic publications cover the topics of disability, sensations,
perception, authenticity, postcolonial theory, Chinese nationalism, and Hong Kong
politics. She completed seventeen graduate-level courses on world literature, Chinese
and Sinophone literatures, postcolonial Anglophone/African literature, critical theory,
film theory, art theory, film philosophy, European cinemas, and Chinese and Sinophone
cinemas. She has taught composition and film studies at undergraduate and graduate
levels. While revising her book chapters on the blind Cantonese operatic musician
Duwun/Dou Wun and Johnnie To's _Blind Detective_(2013), as well as her book manuscript,
a phenomenological study of Johnnie To's cinema, she teaches popular culture and film
aesthetics at Chapman University. Raised by her blind grandmother in Hong Kong, she
finds her passion in phenomenology.