Dr. Helena Wu is Assistant Professor of Hong Kong Studies and Convenor of the Hong Kong Studies Initiative at the University of British Columbia. She teaches and conducts research on Hong Kong and Taiwan cinema, literature and culture. Her work appears in academic journals and books, such as Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Chinese Martial Arts and Media Culture, Hong Kong Keywords, Global Media and China, the Journal of Chinese Cinemas, and has been consulted by BBC, CBC, and Omni TV. She is the author of The Hangover After the Handover: Places, Things and Cultural Icons in Hong Kong. 

In her latest project, Dr. Wu explores how creative expression and audience activities affect cultural (industry) practices, the construction of identity and the relationship between content producers, distributors, and spectators by probing the (trans)formation of film, television and sport spectatorship.