She earned her PhD in Art Education at The Ohio State University and her MFA in Computer Art from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her creative work includes manga, animation, and digital media arts. She published five manga in Taiwan and her animation and digital arts are screened and exhibited in Singapore, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, Netherlands, and the United States. Her recent animated documentary, Seeing through the Eyes of Crocodiles, explores Taiwanese butch lesbians’ sexuality, body imaging, pleasure, and struggles in society. It has won the Best Editing Award in Shanghai Pride Film Festival and the Audience Award for International Short in Boston LGBT Film Festival. Shen’s scholarly writing focuses on the intersection among pleasure, power, and politics of viewing Japanese animation, as well as the subject’s persistent practice in the visual fields.