Emily Wilcox is Margaret Hamilton Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures in Chinese Studies at William & Mary. An internationally acclaimed scholar of Asian and Asian diaspora dance studies, Wilcox received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University, her MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. From 2013-2020, Wilcox taught at the University of Michigan, where she received tenure in 2019. Wilcox is author of Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy (University of California Press 2018, winner of the 2019 de la Torre Bueno Prize® from the Dance Studies Association), released in Chinese by Fudan University Press in 2023. Wilcox is co-editor of Corporeal Politics: Dancing East Asia (University of Michigan Press 2020), Inter-Asia in Motion: Dance as Method (Routledge 2023), and Teaching Film from the People’s Republic of China (MLA 2024) and translator of Creating with Roots: Contemporary Chinese National Folk Dance Choreography (University of Michigan Press, 2025). Wilcox directed the American Dance Festival’s “Planting Seeds: ADF and Modern Dance in China” oral history project and co-created the University of Michigan Library’s Chinese Dance Collection. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the Beijing Dance Academy in 2008-2009 and a postdoctoral researcher at the Shanghai Theatre Academy in 2011-2013. Wilcox has held numerous external grants for her research, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in Dance Studies in 2024 and fellowships from ACLS, SSRC, the Wilson Center, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.