Ziying You is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies at the University of Georgia (UGA), and affiliated Professor at the Center for Asian Studies and at the Institute for Women's & Gender Studies at UGA. She is an Executive Board Member (2024-2026) of the American Folklore Society (AFS), and the Senior Convener (2024-2025) of the Transnational Asia/Pacific Section of AFS. She is the author of Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Chinese and Chinese American Women: Racisms, Feminisms, and Foodways (IUP, 2025) (Open Access), and Folk Literati, Contested Tradition, and Heritage in Contemporary China: Incense Is Kept Burning (IUP, 2020). She is co-editor of Chinese Folklore Studies Today: Discourse and Practice (IUP, 2019), and co-editor of the special issues Intangible Cultural Heritage in Asia: Traditions in Transition (2020) for Asian Ethnology, Narratives of COVID-19 in China and the US (2025) for Narrative Culture, and Key Vernacular Concepts in Chinese Folklore and Folkloristics: Continuities, Ruptures, and Connections (2025) for Western Folklore.