Professional
Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, WI
2025-present
Ph.D. in Communication Arts– Media and Cultural Studies
Ph.D. minor in Gender and Women’s Studies
Nanjing University | Nanjing, China
2022-2025
M.A. in Theory of Art & Culture – Artistic Communication concentration
Spring 2024 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Madison, WI
Xiamen University | Xiamen, China
2018-2022
B.A. in Musicology and Accounting
Teaching
COM ARTS 100: Introduction to Speech Composition
Instructor of Record | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Fall 2025 & Spring 2026
Course Directors: Dr. Sara McKinnon & Dr. Sarah Jedd
Media Humanities
Teaching Assistant | Nanjing University | Spring 2023 & Spring 2024
Instructor: Prof. Chengzhou He
Creative Writing
Teaching Assistant | Nanjing University | Fall 2023 & Fall 2024
Instructor: Prof. Mengqian Yuan
Awards & Fellowships
• Graduate with honors | Nanjing University, 2025
• Master’s Elite Fellowship | Nanjing University, 2024
• Outstanding Graduate Student | Nanjing University, 2023
• Excellence Award for Public Service | Nanjing University, 2023
• Graduate Academic Fellowship | Nanjing University, 2022, 2023, 2024
• Graduate with honors | Xiamen University, 2022
• Yanan Scholarship | Xiamen University (Highest honors of XMU), 2022
• Excellent Student Leader | Xiamen University, 2022
• National Academic Scholarship | Ministry of Education, China, 2019, 2020, 2021
• Merit Undergraduate Student | Xiamen University, 2019, 2020, 2021
Service
• Reader Board, The Velvet Light Trap, 2025-
LINWEI DING
Email: linwei.ding@wisc.edu
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