Amiee Zhao

Professional Bio

I am a graduate assistant in the Department of English at Penn State, where I research topics in technology, labor, and the Asian diaspora while teaching ENGL15 for first-year students. Specifically, I am interested in the question of how emerging technologies - and also the disappearance of old technologies - mold the effect of labor and identity for the Asian diaspora moving across borders. My theoretical framework builds from works in science and technology studies, Marxist literature, genre studies, infrastructure studies, and Global Asias. In thinking about these questions and digging into theories, I also hope to devote my research to the activism work for Asian migrant laborers.

Previously, I earned a B.A. double majoring in English and Politics, Philosophy, Law from Emory University. There, the continental philosophy tradition helped me build the critical lens for reading culture, media, and technology. The magazine I started at Emory, Diverge, also allowed me to start transferring my skills in literary analysis and Cultural Studies to bringing together marginalized voices in English writing.