Jiayue (Cathy) Wang
Ph.D. Student/Teaching Assistant
Contact Information
Research and Creative Interests
- AR/VR
- Documentary and Nonfiction
- Interactive Media
- Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
Biography
Jiayue “Cathy” Wang is a Ph.D. student in Media Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington. Her research focuses on documentary and nonfiction media, film theory, environmental media, and the ethics and politics of representation, with particular interests in Chinese and transnational cinema.
Her current research examines documentary aesthetics and social witnessing, including the relationship between realism, structural violence, censorship, and environmental crisis in contemporary Chinese documentary. More broadly, she is interested in how cinematic form mediates political violence, ecological conditions, and embodied spectatorship across different cultural and geopolitical contexts.
Before joining Indiana University, Wang earned her M.F.A. in Film and Television Studies from Boston University and her B.F.A. in Film Studies and Drama from Queen Mary University of London. Her work has been recognized by Boston University’s Film and Television Studies Award for Innovative Scholarship, and her research has been accepted for presentation at Visible Evidence XXXII.
Conference Papers & Submissions
Wang, Jiayue. (2026, December). From Ideological Illusion to Embodied Engagement: Rethinking Apparatus Theory Through Leviathan (2012) and De humani corporis fabrica (2022). Paper accepted for presentation at the Visible Evidence XXXII Conference, São Paulo, Brazil.