From Cyberpunk to Gendered Cyber-Pop: Reading Chinese Sci-fi Web Novels through Digital Humanities by Peizhen Wu

Jesse L. Rosenberger Work-in-Progress Seminar Series: From Cyberpunk to Gendered Cyber-Pop: Reading Chinese Sci-fi Web Novels through Digital Humanities by Peizhen Wu

Peizhen Wu received her Ph.D. in English Literary Studies from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in August 2026. Peizhen’s research bridges Digital Humanities with transnational literary and new media studies. She specializes in using computational methods to study the circulation of popular culture between Western and East Asian contexts by analyzing global science fiction, web novels, fan fiction, and user-generated reviews. She has published in Journal of Digital Humanities, Transformative Works and Cultures, and Tolkien Studies. Peizhen looks forward to advancing her data-driven research and contributing to the critical Digital Humanities community at Rochester.