Born and raised in Shanghai, China, Dr. Li studies the global spread of consumer capitalism through the perspectives of psychoanalysis, ecocriticism, and critical media theory. Her book Environmental Advertising in China and the USA: Structures of Desire is forthcoming with Routledge in February 2016. She has also published in journals of Media, Culture and Society, Environmental Communication, the anthology Reading Brokeback Mountain, and for three years, she authored the "Looking Abroad" Column for The 21st Century, an English-language weekly in Beijing. Dr. Li teaches courses including Media Studies, Media, Culture, and the Environment, and Arts and Humanities Foundation. ​