GAO Jin has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Tsinghua University since 2014. She received her BA in English literature from Peking University and MA from UCLA. She did her doctoral studies in comparative literature at Yale University (ABD). Her dissertation is a comparative study of discourses on the relationship of poetry and painting. Her published articles include “Greek Art in the British Museum” and she has translated contemporary Chinese writers such as Wang Anyi and Han Shaogong into English.