Ying Xiong holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Oregon, U.S.A. She is currently a Research Assistant Professor in the Research Center for Comparative Literature & World Literature at Shanghai Normal University, where she specializes in comparative literature, comparative rhetoric, poetry and poetics, and translation studies. A member of the Innovative Team of the High-Level Program in Comparative Literature and World Literature at the university’s School of Humanities, she is also Managing Editor and Editorial Director of the school’s flagship publication International Comparative Literature: A Journal Devoted to Research in Transcultural Encounters. Ying has published extensively on her specialist subjects, and was recently named a Shanghai Pujiang Scholar by the Shanghai Municipality in 2019 (Grant No. 2019PJC083).
