Gerui Wang

Gerui Wang is a Lecturer (Spring 2024) at Stanford University Center for East Asian Studies. Her research interests span arts, public policy, environment, and technologies. Her first book Landscape, Governance, and Ecology in China, 1000-1400 is forthcoming from the Hong Kong University Press. The manuscript demonstrates the overlooked ecological thinking in flourishing landscape imagery and policy debates that address both situations of environmental wellbeing and damage. Gerui has published articles in the Journal of Chinese History and Newsletter for International China Studies. Her new project examines contemporary art and AI, examining issues of medium, creativity, authenticity, automation, and human-machine entanglement. Her writings on topics such as AI ethics and AI’s applications in arts and culture have been published in venues such as The Wire China and South China Morning Post. She is also a member of Teaching Art History with AI, an NEH-funded workshop led by Dr. Allison Langmead from the University of Pittsburgh. Gerui’s research has been supported by the UC Santa Cruz Professional Development Grant, Freer Fellowship, Liberthal-Rogel CCS Fellowships, Mellon Fellowships, among others. Gerui holds a Ph.D. in history of art from the University of Michigan.