Terrie Wong

Dr. Terrie Wong (she/they) is an Assistant Professor of Communication Arts & Sciences at Penn State Brandywine. She is the Principle Investigator of a dual-authored grant project funded by the Waterhouse Family Institute for the Study of Communication and Society, titled “Communicating Queer Chinese Identities: A Qualitative Investigation of the Visibility and Intelligibility of Transnational Queer Women in the United States.”

Dr. Wong conducts critical, qualitative research at the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Her work aims to decenter knowledges, perspectives, and frameworks in Eurocentric traditions so as to increase the visibility of other ways of knowing. Her current research program examines queer, Asian, and queer Asian (1) media representations, (2) identities and (3) experiences in the United States. Her published work can be found in Communication Theory, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, and Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture.

In 2023, Dr. Wong’s publication Crazy, rich, when Asian: Yellowface ambivalence and mockery in Crazy Rich Asians (solo-authored) received the Best Article Award from the International and Intercultural Communication Division of the National Communication Association. In 2024, her publication Differently Chinese, Differently Queer: Queer Chineseness as Heuristic and Transnational Queer Imaginary (first author) received the Best Article Award from the Intercultural Communication Division of the International Communication Association. Recently, Dr. Wong is also the recipient of the 2024 D’lorio Faculty Research Award from Penn State Brandywine. In addition to the above, Dr. Wong has also received top (conference) paper awards from the Eastern Communication Association (2019), the Western States Communication Association (2014), the National Communication Association (2021, 2019, 2007), and the International Communication Association (2023).