Yan Gao ( 高燕 ) is an Associate Professor of the Center for Art Education at Fudan University in Shanghai, China. She has obtained her PhD degree from Fudan University. She was a visiting scholar of the University of California at Berkeley. Her research field mainly focuses on visual culture and the aesthetics of films & TV series. Her current research project is “Studies in the Spatial Turn of Jameson’s Criticism”. She has published the book Visual Metaphor and the Spatial Turn: Contemporary Visual Culture from An Intellectual Perspective (Fudan University Press, Shanghai 2009), as well as numerous articles in international journals.