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Susan Su earned a BA in International Affairs from Lewis & Clark College, an MA in Asian Studies from U.C., Berkeley, and a PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago. Broadly, her research focuses on infrastructural developmentalism in Western China and its linkages with cultural governance, digital media, and Tibetan literature and culture. Her PhD dissertation, entitled "Infrastructural Promises: Developmentalism and the Rewriting of Tibetan Culture in China," examines state discourses surrounding the construction of media infrastructure, the cooption of cultural heritage in the national project of development, and Tibetan elites' contestations over the role of culture in development.
Research interests: media and culture in contemporary China, minority literatures, internet studies, digital media, cultural heritage, language and translation, diaspora