Liang Luo

Liang Luo is Professor of Chinese studies and Chair of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at George Mason University, USA. She holds a Ph.D. in East Asian languages and civilizations from Harvard University and an M.A. in comparative literature and world literature from Beijing Normal University. She has lived and studied in Chongqing, Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo, Stockholm, Seoul, Canberra, Leiden, among other places. She served on the Program Committee for the Associate for Asian Studies annual conference, as Chair of the Modern and Contemporary China Forum of the Modern Language Association, and as Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tianjin Normal University. She is on the board of the European Foundation Joris Ivens (Nijmegen, The Netherlands), serves as a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Folklore at East China Normal University, and is the President of the Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature.