Dr. Wong wearing red glasses and dark top against a white background

Yutian Wong

Professor
Email: ytw@sfsu.edu
Location: CA 101
Office Hours:
Mon: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.or by appointment
Wed: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.or by appointment

Ph.D. Dance History and Theory, University of California, Riverside
B.A. Art History, University of California, Davis

Yutian Wong has been teaching at SF State since 2009. Prior to joining the faculty at SF State, Wong was an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and a Mellon Postodoctoral Fellow and Visting Assistant Professor at Bryn Mawr College. Her research asks questions about how dance objects are created and valued by methodological approaches and disciplinary limits. Recently completed projects include Dancing in the Aftermath of Anti-Asian Violence (2023) and Bangtan Remixed: A Critical BTS Reader (2024). Wong is currently at work on a monograph titled Dancing in the Archives of Sincerity which examines the cyclical emergence of sincerity in times of crisis.

She's served as faculty adviser to SFSU's Kpop Adventures club (founded by Anthropology and Marcus Fellow Alum Giselle Peralta). Dr. Wong teaches the iconic course, ANTH 657 Ethnology of Dance.