Ka-Wei Pang is a lecturer in Cultural Studies at the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include gender and sexuality, life stories, and health humanities. She is currently studying Southeast Asian queer media and its transnational fandom.

Experience

  • –present
    Lecturer in Cultural Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Education

  • 2017 
    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, PhD in Cultural Studies
  • 2009 
    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, MPhil in Gender Studies

Publications

  • 2026
    Queer fantasy economy: Rethinking queerbaiting through Thai Y-series drama and industry, Media, Culture & Society
  • 2025
    Engaged Listening as a Praxis, Critical Asia Archives: Events and Theories
  • 2025
    “This is a deepfake!”: Celebrity scandals, parodic deepfakes, and a critically speculative ethics of care for fandom research in the age of artificial intelligence, Transformative Works and Cultures
  • 2024
    Fandom meets artificial intelligence: Rethinking participatory culture as human–community–machine interactions, European Journal of Cultural Studies
  • 2024
    Queer Media from the Global South: The Emerging Girls Love (GL) Media Industry of Southeast Asia, Feminist Media Studies
  • 2023
    Queer Motherly Fantasy: The Sinophone mom fandom of Saint Suppapong Udomkaewkanjana, Queer TV China: Televisual and Fannish Imaginaries of Gender, Sexuality, and Chineseness
  • 2018
    The Making of Chinese Medicine in Hong Kong, Social Transformations in Chinese Societies