FHM Researchers - Dr ZHANG Zimu
FHM Researchers - Dr ZHANG Zimu
Assistant Professor
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies (LCS)
Research Area(s):
- Cultural Studies
- Environmental Humanities
- Film Studies
I am an environmental humanities scholar working on visual culture, eco-cinema, and ecofeminist arts. I also practice filmmaking and curation. I welcome prospective students with research interests in the above-mentioned areas to get in touch with me to discuss their research proposals and supervision opportunities.
Selected Publications:
Zimu Zhang (forthcoming), “Village Film and Place-based Film Archive: Towards an Ecological and Archival Chinese Independent Documentary.” In Chinese Independent Cinema: Past, Present, and a Questionable Future, edited by Chris Berry, Luke Robinson, Sabrina Qiong Yu, and Lydia Dan Wu, Amsterdam University Press, forthcoming.
Zimu Zhang (forthcoming), Amphibiousness and Migrant Ecology, an Eco-feminist Mediation of the China Pearl River Delta from the novel Chao Xi Tu, Environmental Humanities.
Zimu Zhang (2023). Artistic Sousveillance in the Societal Surveillant Assemblage - on Dragonfly Eyes and Eye Contact. Journal of Visual Art Practice, 2(1), 9-27.
Zimu Zhang (2021). “Social Media Art Practices as Prefigurative Politics: Echoes from China.” In Engaging Social Media in China: Platforms, Publics, and Production", edited by Guobin Yang, Wei Wang (179-200). Michigan, US: Michigan State University Press.
Fellowships and Grants:
- 2024, Start-up Grant Research, “Mapping Contemporary Ecological Moving Image Practices in the Pearl River Delta Region (PRD)”
- 2023, VisitANTS in Critical Studies of Biodiversity and the Anthropocene Research Fellowship (University of Oulu, Finland)
- 2022, Landhaus Fellowship, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (Joint initiative of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich & the Deutsches Museum)
- 2022, Audiovisual Essay Proposal Grant, Asian Film Archive (Singapore)