Chuanhui Meng is a Watson China Initiative postdoctoral fellow in the Department of East Asian Studies at Brown University. She completed her Ph.D. in Asian Literatures, Cultures, and Media at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, with a minor in Moving Image Studies.

Her areas of specialization include modern and contemporary Chinese film and culture, with a particular interest in transnational migrations and translations of film genres, border-crossing circulations of film and media in the global 1950s and '60s, as well as ecocritical studies of socialist and post-socialist China.

Her current book project examines the formation of a "genre ecology" in socialist Chinese cinema of the 1950s and '60s. It explores the domestic experiments as well as transnational constellation, circulation, and translation of film genres across Cold War geopolitical borders, tracing film genre as a dynamic process of becoming that mediates between the domestic cultural-political environment, transnational migrations of film forms and theories, and the affective and embodied experiences of audiences.