Overview
Zhen Cheng(she/her/hers) is a Ph.D. candidate from the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University. She specializes in performance and theater studies, avant-garde history, Chinese and Chinese diasporic studies, and Global Asias, with a broad research interest in 20th-century critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, and intermedia studies. She holds an MA in Performance Studies and a BA in English.
At Cornell, Zhen teaches three freshman writing seminars: Avant-garde Theaters, Performative Writing, and Asian American Drama. As a scholar-artist, Zhen has experiences working in theaters as director, dramaturge, and actor. Her works have been published and are forthcoming in Asian Theater Journal, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, and Cultural Politics.