Jane Hu

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.

Articles

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.”
Aaron Bady, Jane Hu, Jorge Cotte, Lili LoofbourowMay 25, 2023
- Dear Television
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.
Aaron Bady, Boris Dralyuk, Christian Lorentzen, Ismail Muhammad, Jane Hu, Julian LucasDec 31, 2021
- Literary Criticism
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?
Jane Hu, Jorge Cotte, Phillip Maciak, Sarah MesleApr 7, 2020
- Dear Television
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.
Jane HuJun 17, 2019
- Dear Television
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.
Jane Hu, Phillip MaciakNov 7, 2018
- Dear Television
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
Jane Hu, Phillip MaciakOct 25, 2018
- Dear Television
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.
Aaron Bady, Jane HuMay 16, 2018
- Dear Television
Occasional Corgis: The Crown's Canine Politics
Jane Hu, for Dear Television, has one question: WHERE. ARE. ALL. THE. CORGIS?
Jane HuDec 27, 2017
- Dear Television
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Season One
Dear TV puts together a tight ten on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the specter of a Rory-less Gilmore Girls, and Woody Allen.
Aaron Bady, Jane Hu, Phillip MaciakDec 18, 2017
- Dear Television
The Handmaid's Tale Finale
Dear Television braids hair and cuts to the feeling in the season finale of The Handmaid's Tale...
Jane Hu, Sarah MesleJun 16, 2017
- Dear Television
The Handmaid's Tale, "A Woman's Place"
DearTV discusses the 6th episode of Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale...
Jane Hu, Sarah MesleMay 19, 2017
- Dear Television
The Handmaid's Tale, "Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum"
Dear TV on Handmaid's Tale, Episode 4...
Aaron Bady, Jane HuMay 5, 2017
- Dear Television
The Girls Finale
Dear TV says goodbye to GIRLS...
Jane Hu, Lili Loofbourow, Phillip MaciakApr 24, 2017
- Dear Television
Lena Dunham’s House of Mirth
Is "Girls" relatable? Was it ever?
Jane HuFeb 21, 2017
- Dear Television
- Television
BoJack Horseman: Season Three
Dear TV correspondents review Bojack Horseman for LA Review of Books.
Evan Kindley, Jane Hu, Phillip MaciakAug 23, 2016
- Dear Television
Mad Men, Season 7: "The Forecast"
Never Too Late
Jane Hu, Phillip MaciakApr 20, 2015
- Dear Television