SHEN, Lien Fan is Professor in the Department of Film and Media Arts at the University of Utah, USA. Shen earned her PhD in Art Education at The Ohio State University and MFA in Computer Art from the School of Visual Arts in New York City

Her creative work includes graphic novels, animation, and digital arts. Shen published five graphic novels and was awarded The Best Romantic Comic in Taiwan. Her media art won several international awards, and her digital media arts have been screened and exhibited in Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Netherlands, and the United States. Her animated documentary Seeing Through the Eyes of Crocodiles was screened in Bejing Queer Film Festival, Shanghai Pride Film Festival, TWIST Seattle Queer Film Festival, and Boston LGBT film festival. This short won the Best Editing Award in Shanghai Pride and the Audience Award of International Shorts in Boston LGBT Film Festival.

Her publications include: “Gender and Sexuality in Taiwan Schools” in Oxford Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality in Education, “Taiwan Bar, a YouTube animation series about Taiwan’s histories,” in Animation Studies 2.0, and “Traversing otaku fantasy: Representation of the otaku subject, gaze, and fantasy in Otaku no Video,” in Debating Otaku in Contemporary Japan and “The dark, twisted magical girls: Shōjo heroines in Puella Magi Madoka Magica” in Heroines of Film and Television: Portrayals in Popular Culture. She is the recipient of College of Fine Arts Faculty Excellence Award in Research in 2017, and an honoree of Celebrate U, Extraordinary Faculty Achievements Award at the University of Utah in both 2016 and 2017. Shen’s I will be Your Paradise, the first lesbian-themed comic in Taiwan, was reserialized through the online platform Creative Comic Collection in 2020. Her recent online graphic novel The 21st Century Girls and Their Romance is published on Creative Comic Collection.