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Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

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Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (born 1969) is an author, theorist of digital media, and Professor and Chair of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, United States.[1][2] She has been a member of Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study, a fellow at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Wriston Fellow at Brown University[3].

Life

Chun holds degrees from the University of Waterloo and Princeton University, where she studied Systems Design Engineering and English Literature.[1] She is a 2016 Guggenheim fellow.[4]

Publications

  • New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader (with Thomas Keenan, 2005)
  • Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (2008)
  • Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (2013)
  • Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (2016)

Chun has also co-edited a special issue of American Literature on New Media and American Literature and a special issue of Camera Obscura on Race and/as Technology.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "Chun, Wendy". Vivo.brown.edu. doi:10.1215/10407391-3145937. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
  2. ^ "Wendy Hui Kyong Chun". mitpress.mit.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
  3. ^ a b "Triple Canopy – To Be Is to Be Updated by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun & Brian Droitcour". Triple Canopy. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
  4. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - Wendy Hui Kyong Chun".