Rate My Professor Andy Rodekohr

Rodekohr's research centers on Chinese-language literature, film, and popular media, encompassing representations of crowds and masses in modern Chinese literature and visual culture, the emergence of cinematic new waves in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China, the musical, cultural, and technological legacies of pop singer Teresa Teng, and the globalization of Chinese martial arts. His current book project, tentatively titled "Crowd Spectacular: Conjuring the Masses in Modern China," foregrounds crowd images as a pivotal mode of cultural production tied to ideological mass politics. Key publications include the chapter "Conjuring the Masses: The Spectral/Spectacular Crowd in Chinese Film" in The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas (2013), "The Global Spectacle of Netflix’s 3 Body Problem" in China Currents (2024, Vol. 23, No. 1), a review of Tie Xiao's The Crowd in Modern China (2019), and translations such as Chen Pingyuan's "Enchantment with the Voice" in A New Literary History of Modern China (2017). Rodekohr is Senior At-Large Member of the Southeast Conference of the Asian Studies Association (SEC-AAS) Executive Committee for 2026, co-hosted the 2024 SEC-AAS annual meeting at Wake Forest, and affiliates with the Film & Media Studies program and Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Center.