Speaker - NANCY WANG YUEN

Events

April 19-21
Center for Media at Risk, University of Pennsylvania

May 31
"Diversity and Dollars: Do Creative Gatekeepers Appreciate the Financial Upside of Diversity?" New York Rights Fair, New York, NY.

August 11
"Follow the Leader: Building your Audience and Making an Impact with Twitter," Pennsylvania Convention Center, Street Level, 113B, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA

August 12
Visual Media, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Level 2, Hall C, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA

August 13
Race in Asia and Asian America, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Level 4, Franklin Hall 2,
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA

TV/Video

Oscars Chat with Justin Chang (LA Times), Claudia Puig (NPR, President of LA Critics Assn.) and Camille Tucker (Biola Film professor/Screenwriter).

BBC TV Interview, November 20, 2017

BBC TV Interview, September 14, 2017

BBC World TV Interview, August 29, 2017

Panelist, Super Asian America, Comic-Con, San Diego, July 23, 2017.

UCLA Bunche Center Author Series: Nancy Wang Yuen, May 11, 2017

Panelist, “Power of Popular Culture,” University of Maryland, College , April 26, 2017.

Panelist, Race talk: Tackling racism and identity with kids, KPCC's Crawford Family Forum, Pasadena, CA, April 4, 2017

Featured in Buzzfeed video,
"Things Moms Want Their Daughters To Know," April 7, 2014

Radio/Podcasts

Why do Hollywood films continue to lag behind in diversity despite successful films like #BlackPanther? Nancy Wang Yuen chats about the movie business for NPR’s Marketplace, February 16, 2018

They Call Us #ExpressiveAsians,
They Call Us Bruce Podcast, September 15, 2017.

Interviewed on Sense of Place, Roundhouse Radio, March 2, 2017.

Chicago Public Radio, 'The Morning Shift,' for "The Whitewashing Of Asians In Hollywood," June 23, 2017.

Interviewed for Asian America Podcast, episode 94, February 28, 2017.

Interviewed for New Books Network podcast, March 13, 2017

Interviewed for Screenwriter's Rant Room Podcast, episode 144, March 5, 2017.

Interviewed for What Just Happened Podcast, episode 15, Feburary 21, 2017.

Featured in The Girl with the Curl Podcast, episode 80, January 20, 2017.

Guest speaker on Advice Show Radio, July 20, 2015.

print media

Feature article: "Nancy Wang Yuen has devoted her research to Hollywood's diversity problem," Media Disruptors series, Public Radio International, March 15, 2018

Interviewed for Moneyish for "Diversity sells! ‘Black Panther’ is poised to make $1 billion worldwide," Feb. 27, 2018

Interviewed for Moneyish for "Why the four Oscar nominations for ‘Get Out’ are such a big deal," Jan. 24, 2018

Interviewed in the Huffington Post for ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Star Claps Back At Criticism That He’s ‘Not Asian Enough,’ November 29, 2017.

Interviewed in the Huffington Post for my study, "Asians Are Still Tokenized Or Just Missing From TV Shows, Report Says," September 15, 2017.

Interviewed in Deadline Hollywood for my study, "Asian Americans On TV: Study Finds Continued Underrepresentation Despite New Wave Of AAPI-Led Shows," September 12, 2017.

Interviewed in the Associated Press for my study, "Study finds Asian-American characters tokens on TV," September 12, 2017. Reprinted in national news outlets such as The Washington Post, The New York Times.

Interviewed in LA Weekly for my study, "Nearly Two-Thirds of TV Shows Have no Regular Asian Presence," September 12, 2017.

Interviewed in Washington Post for "Actor Ed Skrein explains why he is backing out of the 'Hellboy' reboot after whitewashing criticism," August 29, 2017.

Interviewed in LA Weekly for 'Latinos Are Becoming Extinct in Hollywood, Report Shows,' August 1, 2017.

Interviewed in Los Angeles Times, for "In Hollywood, Asian American actors see few lead roles, and pay discrepancies when they land one," July 8, 2017.

Angry Reader of the Week, Angry Asian Man, March 24, 2017

Interviewed in Christian Science Monitor. "'Beauty and the Beast': When a feminist plays a Disney princess," March 17, 2017

Professor Nancy Wang Yuen on Her Career, Pop-Culture Studies, and Her Book, Reel Inequality, interview in Sequart Magazine, January 19, 2017.

Interviewed in China Daily News. "Casting of Disney's Mulan closely watched," October 11, 2016.

Interviewed in China Daily News. "American pop culture bridges Sino-US gap," April 29, 2016.

Interviewed in The Associated Press. “Asian-American jab at Oscars reveals deeper diversity woes," March 5, 2016.
Interviewed in The New Republic. "Why Is It Still Okay to Make Fun of Asians?," March 16, 2016.

Featured tweet in Coming of Faith, "20 times Jeb Bush was put in his place by #MyAsianAmericanStory," August 25, 2015.

Featured in Biola News. “Mass Confucian” Documentary Selected for Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.” April 24, 2014.

Interviewed in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. “USC Researchers to Issue Hollywood Diversity Report Card.” February 18, 2015.

Interviewed in World on Campus. “Me, myself, and my selfie.” April 30, 2013.

Featured in Biola Magazine. “Get to Know.” Spring 2013.

Interviewed in Audrey Magazine. “Generation diverse: are we there yet?” Spring 2011.

Referenced in The Los Angeles Times. “'Black Los Angeles' uncovers the region's unique African American life.” August 8, 2010.

Referenced in The Huffington Post. “Race, Gender and the Media in the 2008 Elections.” October 12, 2008.

Interviewed and referenced in The Associated Press. “Asians poorly represented on TV” Covered by USA today, CNN.com, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, FOX News and over eighty international, national, and local newspapers. May 2, 2005.