Emily Wan received her B.A. in East Asian Studies from Stanford University and spent one year as a Fulbright Fellow at Waseda University. Her research focuses on renga (Japanese medieval linked verse), a collaboratively, spontaneously, and orally composed form of poetry in which a group of poets would link verses in succession, with each new verse responding only to the directly preceding one in accordance with a highly intricate set of rules. In particular, she is interested in the questions of how the human connection and interaction inherent to the genre are captured and reflected in the texts that remain, and by extension, how poetry so defined by non-textual aspects specific to its moment of creation and consumption can be read, translated, and practiced today.