Mila Zuo is an associate professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her book, Vulgar Beauty: Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium (Duke UP, 2022) won Outstanding Achievement best book award in media, performance, and visual studies from the Association for Asian American Studies. She is interested in transnational Asian cinemas, film-philosophy, abject and enchanted epistemologies, and critical theories of gender/sexuality/race/ethnicity and decolonization. In addition to her scholarly work, Zuo is a filmmaker whose award-winning short films have screened at numerous international film festivals and universities.