Ping Zhu is Professor in Transnational Chinese / Sinophone Literary, Film, and Media Studies in the Department of Literature at UC San Diego. She serves as the Editor in Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Chinese Literature and Thought Today and is an editorial board member for World Literature Today. Previously, she served as Acting Editor in Chief of Chinese Literature Today from 2017 to 2021.
Prior to joining UCSD, Ping Zhu taught at Rutgers University and the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of Gender and Subjectivities in Early Twentieth-century Chinese Literature and Culture (2015), and the co-editor (with Zhuoyi Wang and Jason McGrath) of Maoist Laughter (2019) and co-editor (with Faye Hui Xiao) Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics (2021). She is currently working on a monograph titled “The Cult of Labor in Modern China.”