Emily Wilcox is Associate Professor and Director of Chinese Studies at William & Mary, Virginia. She is the author of Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy (winner of the 2019 de la Torre Bueno Prize® from the Dance Studies Association), co-editor of Corporeal Politics: Dancing East Asia (University of Michigan Press, 2020) and Inter-Asia in Motion: Dance as Method (Routledge, 2023), and co-creator of the University of Michigan Chinese Dance Collection. Her current research examines dance and leftist internationalism during the Cold War.