伦敦国王学院 哲学博士
牛津大学 理学硕士
香港大学 哲学硕士
南开大学 哲学和文学双学士

王宁馨博士于2024年加入香港中文大学（深圳）。她是一位媒体人类学和数字民族志学者，曾在中国大陆、香港和台湾开展过长期的民族志田野调查。

王宁馨在伦敦国王学院获得了文化、媒体与创意产业研究的博士学位。在博士研究之前，她还获得了牛津大学社会人类学硕士，香港大学全球创意产业哲学硕士，以及南开大学哲学和中国文学的双学士。她曾担任台湾中央研究院民族学研究所访问学者，并在伦敦国王学院、伦敦大学伯贝克学院、香港大学和西交利物浦大学等高校担任兼职客座讲师。

她的研究兴趣在青年文化、数字媒体和国家治理的交叉领域。她曾深入考察了中国偶像粉丝、媒体平台算法和界面、文化市场和审查制度之间的互动关系。她目前正在研究（1）社交媒体的爱国主义话语与青年人日常生活的互动；（2）亚洲创意产业的跨国消费，尤其是中国影视动漫游戏在东南亚和南美的文化市场与粉丝经济；（3）粤港澳大湾区传统实体市场的数字化转型和电商直播。

王宁馨被选举为传媒领域顶会国际传播学会（ICA）大众媒体和文化分部的早期职业代表。她还担任多家传媒和文化研究领域的SSCI期刊的审稿人。

在学术界之外，她关于中国文化产业和粉丝经济的采访和评论被新华社、北京青年报、凤凰网、界面文化、中央广播电台经济之声和T Magazine等知名媒体刊载，也作为中外多家咨询公司和影视公司的客座顾问分享关于粉丝经济的研究。她还是牛津大学华语戏剧社演员。

Monographs

Wang, E. N.* & Huang, Q. (2025). Fandom Nationalism: Participatory Censorship and Performative Patriotism. US: Bloomsbury Academic. (In press/ forthcoming)

Peer Reviewed Articles (Note: *Corresponding author)

Wang, E. N.* (2024). Participatory Censorship with Illusory Empowerment: Algorithmic Folklore and Interpretive Labour beyond Fandom. Social Media + Society, 10(4). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241295800 (JCR Q1, 中科院1区Top) 

Hu, T., & Wang, E. N.* (2024). Chinese celebrity dossier: the politics of censorship governance. Celebrity Studies, 12(2). https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2024.2428141

Hu, T., & Wang, E. N.* (2024). Cyber-nationalism and celebrity: The Zhang Zhehan controversy. Celebrity Studies, 12(2). https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2024.2428142

Hu, T.*, Zou, C., & Wang, E. N. (2023). A male idol becoming a girl? Nisu fans’ sexual fantasy about male stars. Transformative Works and Cultures, 41. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2023.2369

Wang, E. N., & Ge, L.* (2023). Fan conflicts and state power in China: Internalised heteronormativity, censorship sensibilities, and fandom police. Asian studies review, 47(2), 355-373. (Journal Most Cited Article in last 3 years)

Wang, E. N.* (2022). Squid Game Outside the Wall: Fandom Nationalism in China and Negotiation with State Power. Communication, Culture and Critique. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac038

Wang, E. N.* (2022). Dangerous Subaltern: The Power Logic of Fan Subcultures in the Context of Fan Conflicts 危险的附庸：从饭圈冲突看粉丝亚文化的权力逻辑. 文化研究辑刊, (Vol 46 (2021)).

Noppe, N.*, Price, L., Chiu, K., Miller, J. N., Wang, E. N., Vaswani, S. M., Merry, S. K., Pollock, D. E., Black, S. R., Hartwell, R., Naomi, J., Anthony, P., & Emmanouloudis, A. (2022). What if academic publishing worked like fan publishing? Imagining the Fantasy Research Archive of Our Own. Transformative Works and Cultures, (Vol 37 (2022)). https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2022.2253

Wang, E. N., Kelley, B.*, Price, L., & Schuster, K. M. (2020). Beyond the multidisciplinary in fan studies: Learning how to talk among disciplines. Transformative Works and Cultures, (Vol 33 (2020)). https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2020.1819

Edited Issues

Cultural Reports Issue: The Politics of Censorship against Celebrities, In Celebrity Studies, 12(2), 2024.

Editors: Hu, T. & Wang, E. N., co-authored the Introduction.

Book Chapters

Wang, E. N.* (2024). Vernacular Turns in Transcultural Contexts: The Role of Taiwanese Manga Fans in Political Narratives . In Hu, T., & Wu, F. (Eds.), Transcultural Media Fandom in the Asia Pacific. (In Series of Asian Celebrity and Fandom Studies). Bloomsbury. (Accepted/ forthcoming).

Benecchi, E., & Wang, E. N. (2021). Fandom: Historicized Fandom and the Conversation between East and West Perspectives. In G. Balbi, N. Ribeiro, V. Schafer, & C. Schwarzenegger (Eds.), Digital Roots: Historicizing Media and Communication Concepts of the Digital Age (pp. 281-298). (Studies in digital history and hermeneutics). DeGruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110740202

Commentary

Ge, L., & Wang, E. N.* (2022). Scapegoating Fandom: Digital Colonialism, Capitalism, and State. CriticalAsianStudies.org. https://doi.org/10.52698/XMVR6735

Ge, L., & Wang, E. N.* (2022). Intra-Fandom Conflicts and Censorship Sensibilities in Chinese Popular Mediascape. Asian Studies Association of Australia. https://asaa.asn.au/intra-fandom-conflicts-and-censorship-sensibilities/