Gerui Wang

Bio

Gerui Wang is a Lecturer at Stanford University Center for East Asian Studies. She teaches contemporary art and AI, as well as art and ecology. Her research interests span arts, public policy, environment, and technologies. Gerui’s first book Landscape, Governance, and Ecology in Chinese Visual Culture, 1000-1400 is forthcoming. The manuscript demonstrates the overlooked ecological thinking in landscape imagery and policy debates that addressed both situations of environmental wellbeing and damage in pre-industrial China. Gerui has published in the Journal of Chinese History and Newsletter for International China Studies. Her new project examines human-machine entanglement, including AI's impact on media, authenticity, human emotions and perceptions. Gerui contributes regularly on topics such as AI ethics, as well as AI in arts, gaming, and culture to venues such as the Alan Turing Institute’s AI & Arts Forum, Australian National University’s Center on China in the World, Asia Times, The Wire China, and South China Morning Post. She is also a member of the Teaching Art History with AI, an NEH-funded workshop at the University of Pittsburgh. Gerui’s research has been supported by the UC Santa Cruz Professional Development Grant, Freer Fellowship, Liberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Mellon Fellowships, among others. Gerui holds a Ph.D. in history of art from the University of Michigan.

Academic Appointments

• Casual - Other Teaching Staff, Continuing Studies and Summer Session

Professional Education

• Ph.D, University of Michigan (2022)
• MA, University of Michigan (2014)
• BA, Zhejiang University (2012)