Matthew Wild is a scholar of Chinese literature whose research focuses on classical poetry and poetics, with special interests in print culture, performance, traditional literary criticism, and the history of scholarship. His current book manuscript Singing in Time: Philology and the Lyric Imagination in Eighteenth-Century China explores the work of the poet Huang Jingren (1749–1783) in relation to the mid-Qing archaeological and philological movement known as kaozheng, or "evidential scholarship." Matthew earned his B.A. in Chinese Literature at Reed College and his Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley. Before coming to Harvard, he taught Chinese language and literature at Kenyon College.