Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (born 1969) is an author, theorist of digital media, and Professor and Chair of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, United States. She has been a member of Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study, a fellow at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Wriston Fellow at Brown University.

Life

Chun holds degrees from the University of Waterloo and Princeton University, where she studied Systems Design Engineering and English Literature. She is a 2016 Guggenheim fellow.

Publications

• New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader (with Thomas Keenan, 2005)
• Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (2008)
• Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (2013)
• Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (2016)

Chun has also co-edited a special issue of American Literature on New Media and American Literature and a special issue of Camera Obscura on Race and/as Technology.