Monica Zikpi received a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Oregon in 2014. Specializing in early Chinese poetry, her research focuses on questions of translation, reception history, and hermeneutics. She is currently developing her dissertation project into a book manuscript about the reception history of the Warring States poem “Li Sao” and also preparing a related bilingual digital edition of her interlinear commentary translation of “Li Sao.” Her teaching interests include literary translation and translation studies, poetics, Chuci, and Shijing.