Xiaoqiao Ling

Xiaoqiao Ling is an Associate Professor in the School of International Letters and Cultures at Arizona State University (ASU). She is affiliated with the Center For Asian Research. Her research focuses on late imperial Chinese literature, particularly performance texts, vernacular fiction, and print culture. She holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University, an M.A. from the University of Washington, and a B.A. from Renmin University.

Her first monograph, Feeling the Past in Seventeenth-Century China (Harvard University Asia Center, 2019), examines traumatic memory transmission during the Manchu conquest. She is currently researching the social and cultural impact of The Story of the Western Wing, exploring how diverse communities interpreted this iconic play across East Asia.

Her scholarship bridges literary analysis with historical context, addressing themes like legal imagination, memory, and cross-cultural reception. She has published widely in both Chinese and English, with articles appearing in journals such as Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies and CHINOPERL.

Xiaoqiao Ling has received grants including the CCKF-funded project on traditional Chinese texts' instrumental roles (2015). She teaches advanced courses in classical Chinese, East Asian humanities, and academic writing, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches to cultural studies.