Ki Cora Chow is a PhD candidate in the Chinese Language and Literature program.
Ki Cora Chow is a Ph.D. candidate in Chinese Language and Literature at Washington University in St. Louis, where she also holds a Graduate Certificate in Film and Media Studies. An award-winning translator, she earned her first M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Hong Kong in 2017, followed by a second M.A. in East Asian Studies from the University of Texas at Austin in 2019. Her dissertation situates worker culture of late twentieth-century Hong Kong and South China in the early history of automation, analyzing human-machine interactions, the advent of work ethics, and the intersections of gender and labor.
Her academic work and translations have been published in academic journals, literary magazines, and anthologies, including Twenty-First Century (2022), Sound and Rhyme Poetry Bimonthly (2015), Anthology of 40th Youth Literary Awards (2014), and One Man One Story: A Journalistic Anthology (2010). In 2024, she was awarded the EIAC Small Grant from the Association of Asian Studies, along with multiple in-school grants and awards earned throughout her academic career.
