Associate Professor, Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies Ziying You is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies at the University of Georgia, and affiliated Professor at the Center for Asian Studies. She is an Executive Board Member (2024-2026) of the American Folklore Society (AFS), and the Senior Convener of the Transnational Asia/Pacific Section of AFS. Her research interests include Chinese literature and culture, folklore studies, critical heritage studies, women’s, gender, and sexuality Studies, anti-Asian racisms, and global health. She is the author of Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Chinese and Chinese American Women: Racisms, Feminisms, and Foodways (2025), and Folk Literati, Contested Tradition, and Heritage in Contemporary China: Incense Is Kept Burning (2020). She is co-editor of Chinese Folklore Studies Today: Discourse and Practice (2019) and of the special issues Intangible Cultural Heritage in Asia: Traditions in Transition (2020) and Narratives of COVID-19 in China and the US (2025).
