Stefano Calzati worked as a postdoc fellow at the City University of Hong Kong, where he taught and researched on identity construction and narratives on social networks. He also worked as teaching assistant at the University of Leeds, where he got his PhD in 2016. His thesis advances a transmedial comparison between offline (printed books) and online (blogs) travel writing about China, both Western- and Chinese-authored. In 2015, thanks to two research grants from the Worldwide University Network (WUN) and the Universities’ China Committee in London (UCCL), he spent four months in Hong Kong and China to conduct interviews with Chinese travel writers and bloggers. His monograph Mediating Travel Writing, Mediated China: The Middle Kingdom in Travel Books and Blogs will be out in May 2017 by Common Ground within the book series “New Perspectives in the Humanities”, edited by Professor Asunción López-Varela. He also published articles in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, CLC Web, and the Chinese Journal of Communication. Prior to his academic career, Stefano worked as an editor and consultant for publishing houses in Italy and France, and as a reporter for the press, the radio, and ANSA, the main Italian New Agency, both in Italy and the US. He also taught Italian in primary and secondary schools of Melbourne.