Media, PA 19063
Biography
Dr. Terrie Wong (she/they) is an assistant professor of the Communication Arts & Sciences at Penn State Brandywine. They are 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’s scholarship engages with questions on culture, identity, and communication in the Communication Studies discipline. Working primarily from the critical paradigm, they conduct qualitative research at the intersection of race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation. Their current research extends communication theorizing on (1) queer, (2) Asian, and (3) queer Asian media representations, identities, and experiences in the United States. As a critical intercultural communication scholar, an important critical commitment in their scholarship is decentering Euro-American perspectives and frameworks so as to increase the visibility of other ways of knowing. Their published writings appear in Communication Theory, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, and Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture.
Select Awards & Honors
2026 Arnold A. Markley Honors Faculty Award
Cooper and Schreyer Honors Program, Penn State Brandywine.
2025 Top Paper Award
Intercultural Communication Division, International Communication Association.
2024 D'Iorio Faculty Research Award
Penn State Brandywine.
2023 Top Paper Award
Intercultural Communication Division, International Communication Association.
2021 Top Paper Award
Asian/Pacific American Communication Studies Division and Caucus, National Communication Association.
2019 Top Paper Award
Asian/Pacific American Communication Studies Division and Caucus, National Communication Association.
2019 Top Paper Award
Intercultural Communication Interest Group, Eastern Communication Association.
2014 Top Paper Award
Intercultural Communication Interest Group, Western States Communication Association.
2007 Ralph Cooley Award
International and Intercultural Communication Division, National Communication Association.
2007 Top Paper Award
International and Intercultural Communication Division, National Communication Association.
Publications
Huang, S., & Wong, T. S.-T. (2026). Naming the threat: The China/Chinese discursive construct and the rhetoric of anti-Asian racism. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 19(1), 78-100. https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2025.2600409
Leach, R. B., Tracy, S.J., & Wong, T. S.-T. (2024) Refreshing the positive: Bridging positive organizational communication and critical scholarship with Buddhist philosophies. Communication Theory, 34(1), 29–38. https://doi.org/10.1093/ct/qtad015
*Outstanding Article Award, National Communication Association, Organizational Communication Division. (November 2024).
Wong, T. S.-T. & Huang, S. (2023). Differently Chinese, Differently Queer: Queer Chineseness as Heuristic and Transnational Queer Imaginary. QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, 10(2), 8-26. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/923714
*Best Article Award, International Communication Association, Intercultural Communication Division. (July 2024).
Wong, T. S.-T. (2022). Chinese Pink Markets. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.1185
*Reprinted as a book chapter in 2024 in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Queer Studies and Communication. Oxford University Press. (Editor: Isaac West)
Wong, T. S.-T. (2022). Crazy, rich, when Asian: Yellowface ambivalence and mockery in Crazy Rich Asians. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 15(1), 57–74. https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1857426
*Best Article Award, National Communication Association, International and Intercultural Communication Division. (November 2023).
Huang, S. & Wong, T. S.-T. (2019). “More coming out, bigger market”: Queer visibility and queer subjectivity in the Chinese pink market. Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture, 4(3), 287-302. https://doi.org/10.1386/qsmpc_00013_1