Public Relations

Health Communication

Technologies

Media Effects

Emotions

Education

• Ph.D., Mass Communications, Penn State University (2023)
• M.A., Communication Studies, Northern Illinois University (2019)
• M.A., Translation, Beijing Technology and Business University (2017)
• Dual B.A., Marketing and International Finance, Tianjin University of Finance & Economics (2012)

Courses

• MASC 333: PR Technical Writing and Media Relations

BIO:

Dr. Jin Chen is an assistant professor at the Richard T. Robertson School of Communication at Virginia Commonwealth University. She received her Ph.D. in Mass Communications from Penn State University. Her research focuses on media effects and processes, health and strategic communication, and emerging technologies. Before pursuing an academic career, she worked in marketing and retail management and freelanced as a translator, publishing six translated books in marketing, communication, psychology, and philosophy.