Fan Yang (杨帆) is Professor in the Department of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). An interdisciplinary scholar, Yang works at the intersection of cultural studies, transnational media studies, globalization, postcolonialism/postsocialism, and contemporary China. She is a faculty affiliate in the Asian Studies program and the Ph.D. program in Language, Literacy, and Culture, and serves on the Global Studies Coordinating Committee.
Yang is the author of Disorienting Politics: Chimerican Media and Transpacific Entanglements (2024) and Faked in China: Nation Branding, Counterfeit Culture, and Globalization (2016). She is also at work on a new project, Shenzhen: A Media City of the Global South, which examines the first Special Economic Zone located in southern China (now envisioned as part of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay) as a media-infrastructural complex that straddles globalizations from “above” and “below.”
Yang’s scholarship on such topics as nation branding, internet censorship, food and media, “fiscal orientalism,” media and environment, and Shenzhen urbanism has appeared in Cultural Studies, Environmental Humanities, City, Culture & Society, Theory, Culture & Society, China Perspectives, New Media & Society, positions: asia critique, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Journal of Asian American Studies, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, antiTHESIS, among others. Yang obtained her Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from George Mason University, where she was the recipient of a High Potential Fellowship. She also holds an MA from the Ohio State University and a BA from Fudan University, Shanghai.