Karen Fang is a film scholar and cultural critic who writes about the intersection of eastern and western aesthetics in global culture. She is the author of the book, “Arresting Cinema: Surveillance in Hong Kong Film”; Professor in the Department of English at the University of Houston; a founder and chair of a college-level initiative in Media and the Moving Image. In addition, Karen has become a regular contributor to the nationally broadcast public radio program, “The Engines of Our Ingenuity”. She is currently working on a book about “Bambi” artist and Disney Legend Tyrus Wong. Karen also initiated and helped Produce a short documentary on Tyrus’s friend and contemporary, the pioneering immigration attorney Y.C. Hong.