Ying Xiong is the recipient of the highly competitive University of Oregon Dissertation Research Fellowship. The fellowship provides for a year of full funding and will enable Ying to devote herself to the completion of her study of gendered poethood and “translated affect” in late imperial and modern China. Ying has also published an essay titled “The Extension of Poetic Mind: Moving Visual Thinking in Chinese Cinėpoetry” in Mediascape, UCLA’s Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.