Xueting Zhu is a dancer, researcher, and first-year PhD student in the Department of Dance at The Ohio State University. Her current research interests lie in dance culture, performance, choreography, and intercultural and interdisciplinary studies with a particular focus on DanceSport (competitive ballroom dance). As a dancer, she has obtained good results in DanceSport competitions in China, and her performances appeared on the stages of China Central Television (CCTV), Shanghai International Dance Center, Shanghai Spring International Music Festival, etc. Her research has been published in China in publications such as Dance (舞蹈) and Shanghai Art Review (上海艺术评论). She is certified as a teacher and adjudicator by the Chinese DanceSport Federation and is an active member of the China University DanceSport Association. She previously taught DanceSport at Fudan University, Shanghai Normal University. She was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Irvine (2019) and holds a BFA in Choreography and an MFA in Dance with a concentration in DanceSport from Shanghai University of Sport in China.