XIONG Ying is originally from Huangshi, Hubei Province, PRC. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Oregon, USA in 2018. Named a Pujiang Scholar by the city of Shanghai in 2019, Ying is currently English Executive Editor of International Comparative Literature: A Journal Devoted to Research in Transcultural Encounters and a faculty research fellow at Shanghai Normal University. Her intellectual interests lie at the intersection of comparative rhetoric, comparative poetics, literary hermeneutics and translation studies.