PhD, University of Southern California
MA, Freie Universität Berlin
RPG Coordinator
Feng-Mei Heberer is a scholar of contemporary film and media, focusing on gender, labor, and migration, with an emphasis on Asian diasporas. She is the author of Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism (University of Minnesota Press, 2023). Her writing has also appeared in Camera Obscura, Television & New Media, and NECSUS, among others. Alongside her scholarly work, she is active in film curation and community arts and culture organizing.
Heberer joins HKU from New York University, where she taught in the Department of Cinema Studies. Prior to that, she was a Mellon postdoctoral fellow in Global Studies and Languages at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned her MA at the Free University of Berlin. Her training also took her to France and China, where she studied film on fellowships from the German National Academic Foundation.
Research Interests
• nonfiction and experimental film
• digitality
• industry and production studies
• film festivals and grassroots organizing
• migration and diaspora
• feminist, gender and sexuality studies