Tsz Lam Ngai

Dr. Ngai writes about media aesthetics and affects, digital media, cultural histories, and gender and race. She enjoys beaches, story-driven video games, Hong Kong movies, and novels. Fun fact: she is a Clan Master of a popular video game.

Dr. Ngai’s research has won the 2024 Popular Culture Association Kathy Merlock Jackson Dissertation Award, the 2024 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Cultural & Critical Studies Division Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention for the 2024 Timothy Shary Award for Best Essay in Children’s and Youth Media Studies at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the 2022 British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Best Essay by a Doctoral Student Award, the 2022 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Fan and Audiences Studies Graduate Student Paper Award (co-authored with Dr. Ngai’s cat research assistant and pet Bean), and the 2022 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Entertainment Studies Interest Group Top Student Paper Award and Anne Cooper-Chen Research Award.