Cassandra X. Guan

Cassandra X. Guan is an Assistant Professor in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. She is completing a book project titled Maladaptive Media: Animation in Interwar Culture that explores the plasticity of the living in the first age of its technical reproduction. With Adam O’Brien, Guan co-edited the Screendossier “Cinema’s Natural Aesthetics” (2020). Her essays have appeared in journals and anthologies like October (2021), Film-Philosophy (2024), Parapraxis (2025), World Picture (2025), South Atlantic Quarterly (2025), Ulrike Ottinger: Film, Art and the Ethnographic Imagination (2024), and The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Digital Media (2026).