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Assistant Professor

Dr. Ng teaches courses in the Critical Studies track of the ACM curriculum. His current research and teaching interests include: the art, history, politics and philosophy of film and media; Asian, Asian American/Canadian and Oceanic cinema and media culture; documentary form; transnational and transmedial cultural formations; film festival and film industry culture; critical social theory; postcolonial studies; and the politics of gender, sexuality and race in cinema.

Dr. Ng received his PhD from the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) in Political Science where his research explored diasporic formations of Chinese cultural identity in narrative and experimental film and video. Dr. Ng has taught several courses on film and media at UHM and run workshops on curriculum and film for university educators at the East-West Center (EWC). Prior to joining the ACM, Dr. Ng was the Curator of Film and Video at the Honolulu Academy of Arts where he managed the museum's acclaimed art house film program and was part of the curatorial team for the museum's Contemporary Masters program - an ongoing series of contemporary art exhibitions that has featured paintings by Neo Rauch, video installations by Bjorn Melhus and a large scale multi-media sculptural installation by Won Ju Lim. Dr. Ng was also a film programmer for the Louis Vuitton Hawaii International Film Festival and the Program Manager for the UHM/EWC International Cultural Studies Graduate Certificate Program, an advanced course of study in the dynamics of global popular culture. Dr. Ng received his M.A. in the Cultural, Social and Political Thought Program at the University of Victoria and his B.A. in Philosophy from McGill University. He has published scholarly and popular articles on film, politics and culture and served as a juror for international film festivals.