Dingru Huang 黃丁如 is the Rumsey Family Junior Professor in the Humanities and the Arts at the Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies, Tufts University. Before joining Tufts, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. in Chinese literature from Harvard University in 2022. Her research interests include wartime cultural production, speculative fiction, and environmental humanities in China and Global East Asia, particularly the roles played by nonhuman animals in various media. Her scholarly work has been published in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Chung-wai Literary Quarterly, and Ex-position. Aside from academic research, Dingru enjoys writing short stories in Chinese. Her stories can be found in Shanghai Literature and UNITAS.