Jane Hu is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Southern California. Her cultural criticism, including film and TV coverage, has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Bookforum, The Nation, Harper’s, The Ringer, and The Awl, among other places. Her scholarship has been published in Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Modern Language Studies, Textual Practice, Victorian Studies, Modernism/modernity Print+, and Post45. She is an assistant editor at n+1.
Jane Hu
Articles
On Adaptation: From Page to Screen
In November 2024, writers Viet Thanh Nguyen, Jonathan Ames, Anna Dorn, and Jane Hu gathered at LITLIT for a discussion with Paul Thompson about how it feels to take a work from book to screen.
Phillip Maciak’s “Avidly Reads Screen Time”: A Symposium
“Dear Television” contributors and columnists Aaron Bady, Jorge Cotte, Jane Hu, and Lili Loofbourow review Phillip Maciak’s “Avidly Reads Screen Time.”
Semipublic Intellectual Sessions: “Under Review”
A transcript of the panel discussion "Under Review" — a conversation in the Semipublic Intellectual Sessions, which took place on November 4.
Dear Television vs The Psychometric Personality Quiz
We took that Psychometric Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, and we're not happy. And, come to think of it, who are *we* at all?
Big Little Lies, "Tell-Tale Hearts"
For Dear TV, Jane Hu and Phil Maciak put Big Little Lies, season two, episode two under surveillance — it's disappointing.
Can Ghosts Buy Drugs? The Haunting of Hill House (Eps. 6-10)
Dear TV on the baffling televisual end to a very happy Haunting of Hill House.
The Shirley Jackson 5: The Haunting of Hill House (Eps. 1-5)
Dear TV, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within
The Hellish Comedy of Now: Silicon Valley, Season Five
For DearTV, Jane Hu and Aaron Bady talk joke-butts, Orientalism, cryptocurrency, and the season finale of Silicon Valley.
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