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Weihong Bao is Assistant Professor of Film & Media and East Asian Languages & Cultures at US Berkely. She works in the areas of film theory and history, media archaeology, and critical theory. Her teaching and research interests cover late nineteenth century visual and performance culture, Chinese language cinema of all periods and regions, historical screen and exhibition practice as well as transnational genre cinema, comparative media history and theory, and the intersection between film and media. She is the author of Fiery Films: The Emergence of an Affective Medium in China, 1915-1945 (University of Minnesota Press, 2015). Her writings appear in such journals as Camera Obscura, New German Critique, Nineteenth Century Theater and Film, Opera Quarterly, The Journal of Chinese Cinemas, The Journal of Modern Chinese Literature, American Anthropologist, and Yingshi wenhua as well as The Blackwell Companion to Chinese Cinema. She has held fellowships from UC Berkeley, Harvard University, and the Getty Research Institute. Most recently, she was a senior fellow at the Internationale Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM), Germany as well as a Macgeorge Fellow at the University of Melbourne. She serves on the editorial board for Feminist Media History and is co-editor for the "film theory in media history" book series published by Amsterdam University Press. She is currently working on a few research projects, including the geopolitics of film theory, the historical interaction between cinema and theater, and cultural constructions of secrecy as media theory and history. She taught at Ohio State University and Columbia University before joining UC Berkeley.