Associate Professor, Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies Ziying You is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies at the University of Georgia (UGA), and affiliated Professor at the Center for Asian Studies and at the Institute for Women's & Gender Studies at UGA. She is an Executive Board Member (2024-2026) of the American Folklore Society (AFS), and an Executive Committee Member (2026-2029) of the Association of Chinese American Professors at UGA. Her research interests include Chinese literature and culture, folklore studies, critical heritage studies, women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, global Asias, foodways, digital humanities, and global health. She is the author of Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Chinese and Chinese American Women: Racisms, Feminisms, and Foodways (IUP, 2025) (Open Access) (Winner of Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize, AFS, 2025), and Folk Literati, Contested Tradition, and Heritage in Contemporary China: Incense Is Kept Burning (IUP, 2020). She is co-editor of Chinese Folklore Studies Today: Discourse and Practice (IUP, 2019), co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Folklore (forthcoming 2027), and co-editor of the special issues Intangible Cultural Heritage in Asia: Traditions in Transition (2020) for Asian Ethnology, Narratives of COVID-19 in China and the US (2025) for Narrative Culture, and Key Vernacular Concepts in Chinese Folklore and Folkloristics: Continuities, Ruptures, and Connections (2025) for Western Folklore. Her recently taught courses include CMLT 4060/6060 Global Chinese Foodways (Domestic Field Study), CMLT 4710/6710 Health and Narratives in Global Asias, CMLT 3120 Love and Friendship in East Asia, CMLT 3650 Literary Foundations of East Asian Civilization, CMLT 3220 Women and Writing in East Asia, among others.
