Menglan Chen

陳夢嵐

2024-25 Graduate Student Associate; Ph.D. Candidate in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University

Topics:

Film and Media, History, Science and Technology

生物

Menglan Chen (陳夢嵐) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. Her dissertation investigates how photography redefined what was visible, sensible, and knowable in modern China. Menglan’s research explores modern and contemporary imaging technologies and techniques at the intersection of aesthetic, technical, and epistemic operations.

Research Interests: History of photography; Media studies; Modern and contemporary Chinese art and cinema; Science and technology studies