Lam Wong Yiu Wah Chair Professor of Visual Studies
Prof YEH Yueh-yu Emilie
Dean, Faculty of Arts
Director, Centre for Film and Creative Industries
Professor Emilie Yeh is a scholar of Chinese and Asian cinema studies. She has published nine books and over 60 academic articles, some of which have been translated into other languages, including Japanese, Spanish, Hungarian, and Chinese.
Prior to joining Lingnan, she was the Director of the Academy of Film (2014–2016) and Director of the Centre for Media and Communication Research (2007–2014) at Hong Kong Baptist University. Between 2005 and 2014, she was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, Tsinghua University (Taiwan), Academia Sinica, and National Taiwan University, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Carsey-Wolf Center of the University of California, Santa Barbara. She won two outstanding scholarly performance awards from the School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University, and has been awarded research grants from the Research Grants Council, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, and from funding agencies in Australia and the United States.
Professor Yeh holds editorial memberships at several international and regional journals. She served as a member on various panels of the Research Grants Council; specifically, the 2014 Research Assessment Exercise, Joint Research Schemes, and recently, the General Research Fund under the Humanities and Social Sciences Panel. She was a jury member of the Golden Horse Film Awards (Taiwan) twice, the Asian Television Awards (Singapore), the Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards, and the Hong Kong Fresh New Wave Film Competition. She was also a consultant for the Motion Picture Association of America.
At Hong Kong Baptist University, she led the Academy of Film into a new phase of scholarly and creative achievement. She developed the animation and media arts programme, co-founded studio i – an initiative to foster young film talent – and set up the Centre for Moving Image Research. At Lingnan, she served as the producer of Lingnan 5.0 – a short film omnibus for the University’s 50th anniversary in 2018. She also designed and implemented the BA curriculum in Animation and Digital Arts in 2019, and led a team to establish a new MA in Creative and Media Industries in 2020. Both of these programmes focus on creative culture and the economies of Hong Kong and the Asia Pacific region. At both institutions, she hosted more than two dozen filmmakers from around the world. Professor Yeh is contributing to Hong Kong’s creative and media sectors in its most dynamic phase.
In 2015, Professor Yeh received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Taiwan’s National Sun Yat-sen University. Recently, she has been invited to be a Resident Visiting Scholar at the European Institute for Chinese Studies, Paris.
Research interests: early film history; media industries; East Asian cinema; Chinese Wenyi pictures
Research output: https://scholars.ln.edu.hk/en/persons/yueh-yu-yeh/publications/
Prior to joining Lingnan, she was the Director of the Academy of Film (2014–2016) and Director of the Centre for Media and Communication Research (2007–2014) at Hong Kong Baptist University. Between 2005 and 2014, she was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, Tsinghua University (Taiwan), Academia Sinica, and National Taiwan University, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Carsey-Wolf Center of the University of California, Santa Barbara. She won two outstanding scholarly performance awards from the School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University, and has been awarded research grants from the Research Grants Council, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, and from funding agencies in Australia and the United States.
Professor Yeh holds editorial memberships at several international and regional journals. She served as a member on various panels of the Research Grants Council; specifically, the 2014 Research Assessment Exercise, Joint Research Schemes, and recently, the General Research Fund under the Humanities and Social Sciences Panel. She was a jury member of the Golden Horse Film Awards (Taiwan) twice, the Asian Television Awards (Singapore), the Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards, and the Hong Kong Fresh New Wave Film Competition. She was also a consultant for the Motion Picture Association of America.
At Hong Kong Baptist University, she led the Academy of Film into a new phase of scholarly and creative achievement. She developed the animation and media arts programme, co-founded studio i – an initiative to foster young film talent – and set up the Centre for Moving Image Research. At Lingnan, she served as the producer of Lingnan 5.0 – a short film omnibus for the University’s 50th anniversary in 2018. She also designed and implemented the BA curriculum in Animation and Digital Arts in 2019, and led a team to establish a new MA in Creative and Media Industries in 2020. Both of these programmes focus on creative culture and the economies of Hong Kong and the Asia Pacific region. At both institutions, she hosted more than two dozen filmmakers from around the world. Professor Yeh is contributing to Hong Kong’s creative and media sectors in its most dynamic phase.
In 2015, Professor Yeh received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Taiwan’s National Sun Yat-sen University. Recently, she has been invited to be a Resident Visiting Scholar at the European Institute for Chinese Studies, Paris.
Research interests: early film history; media industries; East Asian cinema; Chinese Wenyi pictures
Research output: https://scholars.ln.edu.hk/en/persons/yueh-yu-yeh/publications/