LIEN FAN SHEN portrait
  • Professor, Film & Media Arts Department
  • Associate Dean for Faculty & Academic Affairs, College Of Fine Arts-Dean
801-585-7673

Current Courses

Spring 2025

  • FILM 4960-004
    Animation Project I
  • FILM 4965-002
    Animation Project II
  • FILM 6900-009
    Internship

Fall 2024

Professional Organizations

  • Association of Asian Studies. 04/01/2017 - present. Position : Member.
  • Society for Cinema and Media Studies . 09/2013 - present. Position : Member.
  • AVANCA | CINEMA Conferência Internacional Cinema - Arte,Tecnologia,Comunicação. 06/2010 - present. Position : Member and reviewer of Scientific Commission .
  • Association for Computing Machinery (SIGGRAPH). 09/2007 - present. Position : Member.

Teaching Projects

  • BECOMING HUMAN: LAW, LITERATURE & VISUAL ARTS. Project Lead: Erika George. Collaborators: Lien Fan Shen, Scott Black. Global Learning Across Disciplines 09/01/2018 - 05/01/2019.
  • Inter-dimensionalities between Arts and Bioscience . Project Lead: Lien Fan Shen. Collaborators: Janet Iwasa. W. M. Keck Foundation 08/01/2018 - 05/01/2019.
  • Developing a hybrid version of Film 2600. Project Lead: Lien Fan Shen . TLT grant 01/04/2014 - 08/26/2014. Total Budget: $5,000.00.
  • Creative workshop and scholary panels of Japanese anime. Project Lead: Lien Fan Shen. Collaborators: Mamiko Suzuki. Japan foundation 08/2012 - 08/2014. Total Budget: $12,600.00.
  • UPlay multimedia piano learning project (animation). Project Lead: Lindsey Wright . Collaborators: Lien Fan Shen. Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program 08/01/2012 - 12/22/2012.
  • Japanese language and culture at Freeman summer institute . Project Lead: Lien Fan Shen. University teaching committee 05/2012 - 06/2012.
  • Japanese language and culture at Freeman summer institute . Project Lead: Lien Fan Shen. Freeman Foundation 05/2012 - 06/2012. Total Budget: $800.00.
  • Max/MSP/Jitter Workshop at UC Berkeley. Project Lead: Lien Fan Shen. University teaching committee 08/2011 - 12/2011. Total Budget: $3,020.00.
  • Faculty Education Program at Rhythm and Hues Studios. Project Lead: Lien Fan Shen. The University Teaching Committee 06/08/2009 - 05/2009. Total Budget: $1,300.00.