Ph.D. in Performance Studies, Northwestern University.

M.A. in Film Studies and Screenwriting, Beijing Film Academy, China.

M.A. in Theatre and Drama Studies, University of London, U.K.

B.A. in English, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Kin-Yan Szeto is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance and Faculty Fellow for Diversity at Appalachian State University. Previously, she taught performance studies at Northwestern University and film studies at the University of California, Irvine. Szeto’s teaching and research interests include film, theatre, and performance studies; comparative literature; Chinese film and culture; non-western theatre; post-colonial and global studies; and gender and ethnicity in transnational perspective.

Szeto has integrated interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies in her teaching and research, for instance, an article that examines the intersection of dance, body and globalization in Asian and western contexts, another that explores the subversive and political implications of popular music in Jia Zhangke’s films, and her ground-breaking cross-cultural production of a translated Chinese play, Pining...in Peach Blossom Land, on the ASU campus. Szeto’s articles on film, performance and literary studies have appeared in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Visual Anthropology, Jump Cut, Contemporary Cinema (Beijing), and Film Bi-weekly (Hong Kong), and have been anthologized in Women’s Art and Healing (Taipei) and Cinema and Illusion (Beijing). Szeto has chaired panels and presented papers at national and international conferences. She is pleased to be promoting ASU’s diversity efforts at the local, regional and international levels. Szeto’s upcoming book examines martial arts films from the perspective of the directors and artists who have translated forms and values across national boundaries.