LI Xiaomeng

个人简历3

Xiaomeng Li, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication

Shanghai International Studies University

Email: 2020031@shisu.edu.cn 

EDUCATION

Ph.D.,Mass Communication, Scripps College of Communication, Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA

M.A. New Arts Journalism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA (2011-2013)

B.A. Mass Communications with Honors, Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA, USA (2007-2011)

B.A. Fine Arts with Honors (Photography Concentration), Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA, USA (2007-2011)

PUBLICATIONS

·       Li, X. (2023 Forthcoming). “I feel like a ‘cyber-gypsy’”: BL fanfiction writers in China’s changing landscape of fandom culture. The Journal of Popular Culture. 56(2).

·       Li, X. (2022). “Yea I’m a f* Tomboy”: “girl crush,” postfeminism, and the reimagining of K-pop femininity. Social Semiotics. (Online first)

·       Ng, E.& Li, X. (2022). Brand nohomonationalism: guofeng (“National Style”) framings of boys’ love television series in China. Asian Studies Review. (Online first)

·       Li, X. (2021). Constructing the ultimate “leftover women”: Chinese media’s representation of female PhDs in the postsocialist era. Feminist Media Studies. (Online first)

·       Li, X. (2020). How powerful is the female gaze? The implication of using male celebrities for promoting female cosmetics in China. GlobalMedia and China. 5(1), 55-68.

·       Ng, E. & Li, X. (2020). A queer ‘socialist brotherhood’: the Guardian web series, boys’ love fandom, and the Mainland Chinese state. Feminist Media Studies.20(4), 479-495.

·       Li, X. (2017). Political opportunity, new media, and environmental movement—case studies of Xiamen and Maoming anti-PX protest. American Review of China Studies (ARCS). 18(2), 23-42.

·       Li, X. (2017). The entanglement of signs: examining the political turn of Internet memes in China. Conference Proceedings: “Global Realities: Precarious Survival and Belonging” ISSN: 2187-4751

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

·       Li, X. (2022). Space conquers time, hope conquers fear, present conquers past—A comparative study of the Mao Zedong Mausoleum and the Lincoln Memorial (空间超越时间，希望超越恐惧，现在超越过去——毛主席纪念堂与林肯纪念堂的比较研究), Communication & China: Fudan Forum (传播与中国·复旦论坛)。

·       Li, X. (2021). Constructing Desire: “Femvertising” and Postsocialist China’s Transformation of Female Empowerment, The 107th NCA Annual Convention.

·       Li, X. (2021.11). Implications of the international dissemination of Japanese smartphone app games for the enhancement of Chinese pop culture and soft power—Take Love Live! School Idol Festival as an example(日本智能手机APP游戏的国际传播对中国流行文化软实力提升的启示——以《Love Live! School Idol Festival》为例),Digital Cities: Localized Innovations in Communication Research—Communication & China: Fudan Forum (数字城市：传播研究的本土化创新——传播与中国·复旦论坛)。

·       Li, X.(2021.5). Love and Producer vs. The Producer: A Case Study of Female Game Players’ Negotiation with Their Representation, “100 Years of Chinese Film & Screen: Past, Present, and Futures” at Ningbo Nottingham University.

·       Li, X. & Ng, E. (2020) Queerbaiting and queer excess in contemporary China: examining producer, viewer, and state practices around the Guardian web series, The 2020 MLA Annual Convention, Seattle, WA.

·       Li, X. (2019) How powerful is the female gaze? The implication of using male celebrities for promoting female cosmetics, International Communication Association Annual Convention (ICA), Washington, D. C.

·       Li, X. (2018) National heroes at stake: A comparative study of the mausoleum of Mao Zedong and the Lincoln Memorial, The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies, Kobe, Japan.

·       Li, X. (2018) Changing destiny or commercializing singlehood—A critical discourse analysis of SK-II’s Advertisement on “Leftover Women,” Broadcast Education Association Annual Convention (BEA), Las Vegas, NV.

·       Zhang, C. & Li, X. (2017) Ghost in the shell: Mapping the orientalized city through the heroine cyborg’s journey, National Communication Association Annual Convention (NCA), Dallas, TX.

·       Li, X. (2017) The entanglement of signs: Examining the political turn of Internet memes in China, The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies, Kobe, Japan.

·       Li, X. (2017) Political opportunity, new media, and environmental movement—Case studies of Xiamen and Maoming anti-PX protest, International Communication Association, San Diego, CA.

·       Li, X. (2017) Less confrontational but still revolutionary—Proposing “Third Cinema with Chinese Characteristics,” Popular Cultural Association National Conference (PCA), San Diego, CA.

·       Li, X. (2016) Higher education as failure? Unmarried female PhDs in Chinese Media Representation, Global Fusion Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA.

AWARDS AND HONORS

·       Shanghai Pujiang Project Award Recipient (2021—present)

·       The Claude Kantner Graduate Fellowship, Ohio University (2019-2020)

·       Outstanding Research Paper by the Diversity & Inclusion Committee, Broadcast Education Association Annual Convention (BEA), Las Vegas, NV (April 2018)

·       Top Paper Award (Debut Paper Competition 1^st Place) in Gender & Sexuality Division, Broadcast Education Association Annual Convention (BEA), Las Vegas, NV (April 2018)

·       The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) Scholarship, Kobe, Japan (June 2017)

·       Wilson College Fine Art Prize, Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA (May 2011)

·       Wilson College Grace Tyson Schlichter Award in Communications, Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA (May 2011)

·       Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities & Colleges (May 2011)

·       Senior capstone photography solo exhibition “The Sadness Will Last Forever” in downtown Chambersburg and Wilson College Bogigian Gallery (2011)