Fan Yang is Professor of Media and Communication Studies and faculty affiliate in the Asian Studies Program and the Language, Literacy, and Culture Doctoral Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is the author of Disorienting Politics: Chimerican Media and Transpacific Entanglements (University of Michigan Press, 2024) and Faked in China: Nation Branding, Counterfeit Culture, and Globalization (Indiana University Press, 2016). An interdisciplinary scholar, Yang has published widely in Media/Cultural Studies, China Studies, Global Studies, and Urban Studies.