Xiang He received her Ph.D. from the Department of Comparative Literature at New York University. She taught modern Chinese literature and film at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of University of New Mexico. Her published research articles include “Zaidu Chuangyeshi: ‘shishi-xiaoshuo’ de wenti nanti he shehuizhuyi xinren de daode puxi” (“Re-reading The Builders: The Epic-Novel Problem and the Genealogy of Morality of Socialist New Man''), “Meiyou shizijia de renjian: Zhongguo muqin de xianxingpian, chongdu Lu Xun Tuibaixian de chandong (''The World without the Cross: A Silhouette of Chinese Mother - Rereading Lu Xun’s Tremors of Degradation), “Meditator and Doer: On the Socialist ‘New Man’ of Liu Qing’s Novel The Builders”. Currently, she is finishing a book chapter on the literary and cinematic representation of childbirth, and a book manuscript tentatively titled as Out of Thin Air: A Figural Interpretation of Socialist New Man in Chinese Literature and Culture, 1949-1966.