Beth Tsai

Beth Tsai, Ph.D., is the author of Taiwan New Cinema at Film Festivals (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Her research focuses primarily on the cinema of Taiwan, film festivals, and transnational film theory. She has published in the New Review of Film and Television Studies, International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Journal of Asian Cinema,China Perspectives, Taiwan Lit, and Oxford Bibliographies. She has also contributed many chapters to edited collections. 

She is also an experimental film artist. Her works have been showcased both locally and internationally, including the Women with a Movie Camera Festival in New York and the Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival in France. 

She has served as a panelist for the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) grants for individual artists, moderated post-screening discussions at the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles, and been invited to speak at the British Film Institute.