Zairong Xiang is a researcher at Potsdam University, Germany with the DFG Research Training Group “Minor Cosmopolitanisms.” He has a cotutelle Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (summa cum laude) from Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and Université de Perpignan Via Domitia. From 2014–2016, he was a research fellow at ICI-Berlin, Institute for Cultural Inquiry.