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 currently 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.

A forthcoming volume titled Artificial Intelligence and the International Film and Audiovisual Industries will be published by Routledge in 2025-26.

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.

Dr Chow earned her PhD at University College London (UCL) with a thesis on transnational cinemas in Scandinavia. Her earlier publications have thus focused on policy and representation in the Nordic film and TV context and she is the author of Transnational Screen Culture in Scandinavia (Palgrave Macmillan) and editor of A History of Danish Cinema (Edinburgh University Press).

Grants and Fellowships Awarded
2024: Social Science and Humanities Research (SSHR) 2025 Seed Grant
2023: Fellow, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Study
2018: Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Fellowship (European Commission, under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Programme)
2018: Collaboration Grant (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).

Dr Chow welcomes prospective PhD students working on topics in film and media studies, critical AI, cultural labour, 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
 
  • Automating Creativity: Impacts of GenAI on Visual Effects Artists in Singapore
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
CS4265 - Global Film Cultures: Hollywood and the West
CS5300 - Science Fiction Film
 
Supervision of PhD Students
Skinner Myers - Black Star: Race and Representation in Black Hollywood Cinema (co-promotor with Prof. Patricia Pisters, University of Amsterdam)