Belinda Q. He

Before joining the FMS faculty at the University of Oklahoma, Belinda Q. He (pronouns: she/her/hers) works as a CCS postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley. Dr. Hé's work lies at the intersection of film/media studies, art history, and legal humanities, exploring the role of film, photography, and video in policing, punishing, and justice making, with a focus on image circulation of and as violence over space, through time, and across scale. She pays specific attention to the history of East Asian and global cinema, exhibitions, and participatory media, associated with atrocity, witnessing, and trauma. Her in-progress book project Expose and Punish: Trial by Moving Images in China and Beyond has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) & Library of Congress, Asia Art Archive, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, and Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, among others. 

She appreciates a pedagogical approach to mapping the co-existence of media cultures intertwined through material practices, apparatuses, and recurring ideas. Her teaching revolves around global media history (film genres, surveillance, cinephilia, ephemeral media, nontheatrical cinema, etc) and emergent media cultures, at the overlaps between film analysis, archival work, and digital curation. She has got involved in experimental film production (e.g., videographic criticism and VR documentary) and curatorial work for film festivals, archives, and DH projects. Previously, she co-organized interdisciplinary research groups (Inter-Asian Historiophotyand Dissent Images Research Clusters) in Seattle and served as the committee member of UW Taiwan Studies’ workshop Land/scaping Taiwan. As a guest editor, she is currently co-editing a special issue on cinephilia for the Journal of Chinese Cinemas.