Xiaofei Tian is a scholar of medieval Chinese literature and cultural history, with a particular interest in manuscript culture, court culture, and the dynamic negotiations of medieval Chinese poetry and Buddhism, as well as late imperial and modern Chinese literature and culture. She is the author of a number of monographs, including Tao Yuanming (365–427) and Manuscript Culture (University of Washington Press, 2005), Visionary Journeys: Travel Writings from Early Medieval and Nineteenth-Century China (Harvard University Press, 2011), and The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian’an and the Three Kingdoms (Harvard University Press, 2018), as well as works in Chinese on the sixteenth-century novel Plum in the Golden Vase and on the Greek poet Sappho and her legacy in English and American literature. She also is the translator of The Family Instructions for the Yan Clan and Other Writings by Yan Zhitui (531–590s) (De Gruyter, 2021) and The World of a Tiny Insect: A Memoir of the Taiping Rebellion and Its Aftermath (University of Washington Press, 2014), which received the Association for Asian Studies’ inaugural Patrick D. Hanan Book Prize for Translation. She currently is editor of the journal Early Medieval China and a founding co-editor of the Nanyang Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture.