Jing Tsu is Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures & Comparative Literature at Yale University, where she is the chair of the Council on East Asian Studies. Tsu is a 2016 Guggenheim fellow and the author of two scholarly books, Failure, Nationalism, and Literature: The Making of Modern Chinese Identity, 1895-1937 (Stanford University Press) and Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora (Harvard University Press).