孔慶熒梁巧玲基金教授席 (藝文)

Professor Jean Ma is a scholar of film and media history and theory, with specialisations in Asian cinema, gender, sexuality, sound studies, and moving image art. Her books include Melancholy Drift: Marking Time in Chinese Cinema (University of Hong Kong Press); Sounding the Modern Woman: The Songstress in Chinese Cinema (Duke University Press); and Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography (coedited with Karen Redrobe, Duke University Press). Additionally, her writing has been published in the journals Camera Obscura, Criticism, Film Quarterly, Grey Room, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, and October, along with numerous edited volumes.

Her recent book At the Edges of Sleep: Moving Images and Somnolent Spectators was the recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Book Grant. The book was a finalist for the 2023 Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards and the 2023 Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Book Prize. For more of her writing, please visit: jeanma.xyz.

Professor Ma serves on the editorial board of Film Quarterly and the book series Critical Asian Cinemas at Amsterdam University Press. She is coeditor of the book series Music, Sound, and Media at the University of California Press. Her public service includes membership in the Humanities Panel of the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong and in the Postdoctoral Fellowship Selection Committee for The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art.

Professor Ma received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley and a PhD from the University of Chicago. Previously she taught at Bard College and Stanford University, where she was the Victoria and Roger Sant Professor in Art and the Denning Family Director of the Stanford Arts Institute.