Ki Cora Chow completed her PhD in the Chinese Language and Literature program at WashU.
Ki Cora Chow received her Ph.D. 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 Asian Studies from the University of Texas at Austin in 2019. Her dissertation investigates how worker literature and culture from late twentieth-century Hong Kong and South China redefines the notion of "automation." Her academic work and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in publications including Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Twenty-First Century, Sound and Rhyme Poetry Bimonthly , Anthology of 40th Youth Literary Awards (2014), and One Man One Story: A Journalistic Anthology (2010).