Shen Shuang was born in Zhengzhou, Henan Province in September 1990, received her bachelor's, master's and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Communication at East China Normal University. She was a joint Ph.D. student on a national scholarship at Fordham University in the United States from 2018 to 2019. In 2021, she obtained her Ph.D. degree in Communication from East China Normal University.

Her main research fields are media culture, modern Chinese society, media theory and cultural studies.

Selected academic papers and conference papers:

1. "The Polysemy Production of New China and Popular Literature in the 1930s," Modern Chinese Literature Studies, 2019, No. 2.

2. "Popularizing Knowledge and Seeking Survive: A Study on the Publication and Influence of Anti-Japanese War Popular Readings from 1931 to 1937," Library Journal, 2021, No. 7.

3. "Manufacturing the 'Intellectual Community': A Re-examination of the 'Reading Movement' in Republican China from the Perspective of Cultural Politics," News Enthusiasts, 2021, No. 6.

4. "Research on Modern Chinese Printing and Publication and the Construction of Grassroots Libraries: A Case Study of Rural Libraries and Circulating Libraries in the 1930s," Henan Library Journal, 2021, No. 3.

5. "From Labor Movement to Culture Reform: A Case Study of the Shanghai Publishing Industry (1946-1953)," presented at the IICS (International Institute for Culture Studies) "Conflict and Justice: Precarious Bodies in Inter-Asia Societies" Winter Workshop, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in January 2017.

6. "The Making of Hollywood Fandom in China: How Hollywood Hegemony Shaping Cyber Communities in China's Youth Subculture," presented at The 12th ACS (Association of Culture Studies) Biannual Conference, Shanghai, in August 2018.

7. "Time, Space and Modernity: Urban Fiction and Popular Magazines in 1930s China," presented at The 20th MEA (Media Ecology Association) Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, in June 2019.

Selected awards and achievements:

1. The 2018 Chinese Government Scholarship for studying abroad.

2. The 2nd prize at the National Library Press's "Red Document Sorting and Research Academic Seminar" in 2021.

3. The Excellent Ph.D. Dissertation Award of East China Normal University for the 2020-2021 academic year.