Academic Profile : Faculty

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Asst Prof Pei Sze Chow
Assistant Professor, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
 
Dr Pei Sze Chow ( 周珮詩 ) is Assistant Professor of Digital Culture and New Media at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, where she teaches courses on global cinema cultures from critical cultural perspectives.

Projects
Dr Chow researches the social, cultural, and political implications of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies on the labour of creative practitioners in the cultural and creative industries, with a focus on Singapore and other Asian contexts. She is also interested in the socio-technical imaginaries of AI in popular media (e.g. cinema, TV) and how these simultaneously shape and are shaped by political and socio-economic imperatives within specific national contexts.

Research
Prior to joining NTU, Dr Chow held faculty positions at the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands) and Aarhus University (Denmark). In 2022, she co-founded the AI and Cultural Production group at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and was elected a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Amsterdam in 2023. Her earlier research on AI and its applications in cinema has been cited by the European Commission in policy reports and forms the basis of many invitations to lecture on the topic across Europe and Asia.

Her research has been generously supported by the European Commission (under the highly competitive Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Fellowship) and NordForsk (Nordic Council of Ministers).

Teaching
She is a trained educator with over 15 years of experience in schools and universities in Europe and Singapore. She is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy UK and holds the PGDipEd (NIE Singapore), Universitetspædagogikum from Denmark, and Basis Kwalificatie Onderwijs from the Netherlands. She has taught film studies courses in the United Kingdom at the University of Greenwich and University College London (UCL), where she earned her PhD with a thesis on transnational cinemas in Scandinavia.

Dr Chow welcomes prospective PhD students working on topics in film and media studies, critical AI, and media industry studies.
Critical AI studies; Cultural studies; Creative labour; Political economy of cultural production; Film studies; Cinemas of small nations; Media aesthetics and representation
 
Fellowships & Other Recognition
2023 - Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study, Amsterdam
2017 - Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship, European Commission
 
Courses Taught
CS4068 - Issues in Cinema Studies
 
Supervision of PhD Students
Skinner Myers - Black Star: Race and Representation in Black Hollywood Cinema (co-promotor with Prof. Patricia Pisters, University of Amsterdam)