Sabrina Qiong Yu 余琼

• Principal Investigator Professor of Film and Chinese Studies at Newcastle University

Sabrina Qiong YU, Professor of Film and Chinese Studies at Newcastle University, UK. Her research and publications focus on Chinese independent cinema, stardom and performance, gender and sexuality, and audience/reception studies. She is the author of Jet Li: Chinese Masculinity and Transnational Film Stardom (2012, 2015), the co-editor, with Guy Austin, of Revisiting Star Studies: Cultures, Themes and Methods (2017, 2018). She is the Principal Investigator of UK Arts & Humanities Research Council funded project (2019-2024) on Chinese independent cinema, the founder of Chinese Independent Film Archive (CIFA) and bi-lingual journal Chinese Independent Cinema Observer.