Wendy Wong

Dr. Wendy Siuyi Wong is associate professor at the Faculty of Design at Swinburne University of Technology. Before joining Swinburne, she taught at the Department of Design, York University, Toronto, Canada.  From 2006 to 2009, she served as the Chair of the Department. She was Associate Director of the York Centre for Asian Research from 2005 to 2009. Dr. Wong conducts research on Chinese and Hong Kong visual culture and history, including graphic design, comics, and advertising images. She is the author of Hong Kong Comics: A History of Manhua, published by Princeton Architectural Press, four books for Chinese readers, and numerous articles in academic and trade journals.

Wendy Wong was a visiting scholar at Harvard University from 1999 to 2000, and she was the 2000 Lubalin Curatorial Fellow at the Cooper Union School of Art, New York, USA. In 2009 and 2010, she was a visiting research fellow at the Department of Design History, Royal College of Art, and she served as a scholar-in-residence at the Kyoto International Manga Museum in 2009. She has curated two major exhibits on Chinese design, at the Cooper Union School of Art in 2000, and Design Exchange in Toronto in 2008. She taught in Hong Kong, the United States, and Canada before moving to Australia.

Research Focus

Chinese visual culture and history, design history in Greater China region, cross-cultural design and education, Asian design, global design, history of Hong Kong comics, globalization of manga and anime, contemporary studies on comics and animation in China

Expertise

Chinese graphic design history, history of design of Hong Kong, history of Hong Kong comics, cross-cultural design and education, Asian design education.