Huike Wen

Wen’s teaching, research, and community have centered on learning as a right, a lifelong process, and an essential living component. She is always passionate about knowing people and their learning habits and backgrounds. She appreciates people’s honesty and ideas that create an inclusive and supportive community—her lifelong learning with her students, colleagues, and family.

While Wen continues contributing to multiple programs and majors, her teaching and research focus on civic communication and media studies, particularly those that enhance media studies as an essential component of public health and community building. Wen’s research stresses that media studies shape intersectional discourse and must be considered from the perspective of media ecology. Aligned with the goals of the Civic Communication and Media Studies department, her classes include learning, critiquing, designing, and sharing.

Wen’s recent research focuses on romantic love in media, particularly Chinese media, as a component of the East Asian regional culture in a global context. She has expanded the research to study emotions and media technology in a particular cultural environment.

Wen continues perfecting classes she has taught while designing new courses on recent and relevant topics, such as social media, (individual and collective) identity, intergenerational communication in public health, and conflicts in communication.