Dorothy Wang is Professor of American Studies at Williams College. She conceived of and co-organized the “Poetry Studies Now” conference, which was held at The CUNY Graduate Center and Poets House in April, 2019. She also conceived of and co-founded the Race and Poetry and Poetics in the UK (RAPAPUK) group, which held its second conference at Queens’ College, Cambridge University, in Oct., 2018. Wang has been a visiting professor at Lingnan University in Hong Kong and Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan.