Xiaolu Ma earned her doctorate in Comparative Literature from Harvard University in 2017 and she is currently an assistant professor in the Division of Humanities at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She engages in research in the interrelationship of trans-Eurasian literature and culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is the author of Transpatial Modernity: Chinese Cultural Encounters with Russia via Japan (1880–1930) (Harvard University Asia Center, 2024). Her research articles have been published in peer-reviewed journals, including JAS, PMLA, Comparative Literature Studies, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Twentieth-Century China, among others.