Benjamin Ridgway (白睿偉) received his PhD from the University of Michigan and he is an independent scholar. His research interests lie in classical Chinese poetry, travel literature, urban space in pre-14th century China, ecocritical approaches to premodern Chinese literature, and word and image relationships in Chinese poetry and painting. He has published articles in CLEAR, JCLC, JSYS, Frontiers in Chinese Literary Studies, Postmedieval, and in the conference volumes, Senses of the City: Perceptions of Hangzhou & Southern Song China published by CUHK Press in 2017 and Spring Dawn and Su Causeway, History and Landscape Culture of Hangzhou's West Lake published by Brill Press in 2026. His first book, Longing for Landscape: Displacement, Locality, and Cultural Memory in Song Dynasty Lyrics will be published by Harvard University Asia Center in Fall 2026.