Norah Chow Chung Yan (she/ta) is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Kentucky. Her research focuses on transnational and queer Chinese media fandoms and the inter-Asian historical trajectories of gender and sexual conceptions. In her MPhil thesis, she situates Chinese Nisu fan culture within the transnational and transhistorical contexts of male effeminacy’s representations and receptions, aiming to theorize their dual pleasure of creation and transgression.

Norah has developed the "Digital Intimacy Syllabus," an ongoing collaborative, open-source project that documents and shares scholarships about interpersonal intimacies in the digital age. This initiative also aims to bridge East Asian contexts with global digital intimacy discourse.