Biography
I’m a PhD student in the combined program of Film/Media Studies and Comparative Literature at Yale. With a focus on philosophy/theories of cinema and literature, my research covers areas such as art cinema, East Asian cinema and media, Science Fiction cinema, moving images of animals, and related literary narrative traditions. In terms of methodology, I have special interests in aesthetics and the tradition of phenomenology (esp. Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, Sartre, Derrida, and Marion). I am also involved in studies in narrative theories, semiotics and embodied cognitive sciences. The central topics of my research have been: animal, technology, post-humanism, and “world”.
Research Interests
Asian Languages and Literatures; Critical Theory and Philosophy; English and Anglophone Literature; Fiction; Film; Literary Theory; Modernism; Translation
Publications
Chaorong’s recent publications can be found in https://yale.academia.edu/ChaorongHua:
“The Address of Enunciation: Point-of-View and Sharing,” New Review of Film and Television Studies (forthcoming).
“Cinematic Fengto-Technics: The Genesis of Indigenous Film Aesthetics and the Modernity Pitfall in the ‘Diffusionist Thesis’,” Journal of Beijing Film Academy no. 2 (2026): 35-45. (https://shorturl.at/rufgA)
“The Posthuman Bazin?” Discourse 43, no.3 (2021): 447-63. (https://muse.jhu.edu/article/810819)
“Lapian: The Disseminated Professionalism and the Co-constituted World,” Journal of Chinese Cinemas 15 no. 2-3 (2021): 139-47. (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17508061.2021.1989842)