Bio

Xiaojiao Wang is Assistant Professor of Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at North Carolina State University. Trained in comparative literature at the University of California, San Diego, her research and teaching engage urban and environmental humanities, postcolonial theory, and critical legal studies. Her current book project, “Long Live the Youth: Juvenescent Spaces and Law in Shanghai and Paris Since 1900,” explores how empires, law, and urban modernity shape everyday life and utopian imagination.

She also works on digital humanities projects that experiment with new ways of researching and teaching. Before joining NC State, Xiaojiao served as Research and Communications Manager for the Mapping Global China Project, a digital humanities initiative based at NYU Shanghai. She has translated the works of Julia Kristeva and Jacques Derrida into Chinese and co-hosts 姐姐好读 (Sisreads), a well-received Chinese-language literature podcast that introduces female writers from around the world to a broad public audience.

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