About Me
Ann Lyuwenyu Zhang is a first-year PhD student in the department of Cinema Studies at New York University. Originally from China, she received her BA in Media Studies from Emerson College, and her MA in Cinema and Media Studies from the University of Southern California. Lyuwenyu’s primary research interests center around early cinema, film preservation and archiving, Chinese cinema, and East Asian studies. She has presented at the 2022 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference and the 2022 NECS Annual Conference. She also published book reviews in The Moving Image and The Velvet Light Trap. Her other interests include film history, photography, and nitrate film preservation.
Born and raised in Tianjin, China, Ann has always had a passion in visual and media arts and she has been making photos since she was 12. She has developed a great interest in early film history and photography and is very passionate about anything analog and wants to study further on this subject.