Emily Wilcox

Emily Wilcox is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at William & Mary. She 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). 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 postdoctoral researcher at the Shanghai Theatre Academy in 2011-2013. Wilcox has held fellowships from ACLS, SSRC, Blakemore Foundation, Wilson Center, and Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation. Her current project examines dance exchanges in China during the Cold War.