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Runchao Liu

Assistant Professor

runchao.liu@du.edu

Mass Communications Building, 2490 S. Gaylord St. Denver, CO 80210

What I do

Runchao Liu is an assistant professor in the Department of Media, Film, and Journalism Studies at the University of Denver. Bridging critical media studies, cultural studies, and Asian and Asian American Studies, Liu's research examines the cultural politics of popular music, sound, and listening for how they intersect with social justice, identity, and creative activism through intersectional, comparative, and transnational frameworks. Her publications address topics such as musical orientalism, Asian American voices in rock and punk, postfeminist sensibilities, transnationality of Chinese popular music, affect and identity, intercultural complexity, and critical pedagogies of popular music. You may find their writings in Cinéma & Cie, Critical Asian Studies, M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, and edited collections such as The Cultural Politics of Femvertising: Selling Empowerment (Palgrave Macmillan), Critical Race Media Literacy (Routledge), Sound Affects (Bloomsbury), Bloomersbury Handbook of Music and Art (Bloomersbury), and Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies (Intellect).

Degree(s)

  • Ph.D., Critical Media Studies/Cultural Studies, University of Minnesota, 2021
  • MA, Communication Studies, Shanghai International Studies University, 2016
  • BA, English Language and Literature, Hebei University, 2013