GUO Xi’an (Annie) received her B.A. (Philosophy, 2002), M.A. (Comparative Literature, 2006) and Ph.D. (Comparative Literature, 2013) from Fudan University. She currently is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Shanghai Normal University, and also serves as editorial director of International Comparative Literature. She was a visiting research fellow at Princeton University (2017-2018). Her work focuses on Comparative Poetics. Guo’s publications, including dozens of papers and two edited books, revolve around topics of revisiting Chinese canonical exegesis, meta-study of contemporary Sinology and methodological issues of comparative studies.