Wang Zhiming is an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of European and American Studies, at Academia Sinica, and Associate Professor at the Institute of Social and Cultural Studies at Yangming University. He was a visiting scholar at Harvard-Yenching Institute (2021-2022); a visiting scholar at China Academy of Art (2017-2018); the Vice Chairman of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies program (2015-2023); Editorial Board Member of Reflexion Journal published by Linking Publishing (since 2009), and Editor-in-Chief of Cultural Studies journal (2017-2023). He has been awarded the Junior Research Investigators Award from Academia Sinica (2014), the Wu Ta-You Memorial Award from the National Science Council (2009), and the The ASA Yasuo Sakakibara Prize for International Scholar, USA (2008). His research interests include Asian American literature, international cultural studies, and postcolonial theory. In recent years, his research has shifted focus towards border studies, post/cold war studies, geopolitical studies, and the history of academic thought. His publications include Transpacific Articulations: Student Migration and the Remaking of Asian America (2013) and Re-Articulations: Trajectories of Foreign Literature Studies in Taiwan (2021), as well as various co-edited works in both Chinese and English.

In 2018, Wang Zhiming taught “Introduction to Third World Thought” at CAA, a mandatory ICAST course. Subsequently, he organized an international workshop Thinking the Third World Today: Art, Translation, and the Media at CAA, with curatorial and organiational contributions from ICAST students.