Associate Researcher at School of Literature and Journalism, Sichuan University, Lecturer at the Sichuan University of Foreign Languages, Lecturer at the University of Göttingen, Germany, and Lecturer at the University of Bochum. Dr. Sophia Kidd is the Founder of Words Art International, Director of Igneus Press, and Editor of Literature and Modern China, a journal of School of Literature and Journalism, Sichuan University. Dr. Sophia Kidd is a research curator, art critic, translator, and writer who has lived and worked in Chengdu for over ten years, working closely with Chinese scholars, artists, and specialists in the field of art and facilitating exchanges between them and their counterparts abroad. She has recently published a monograph Culture Paves the New Silk Roads(Palgrave, 2022.) Kidd also wrote a chapter that appeared inSpatial Literary Studies in China）, (Palgrave, 2023.) Kidd also edit-in -chief 《咖啡评论：中国特辑》 （The Cafe Review: The Chinese Issue (XPress, 2021.) Kidd also did English translations of a large number of modern poems from southwest China, especially from the Sichuan and Chongqing regions.

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