Xi “Títílayọ̀” Jin (she/her) is a PhD candidate in African Cultural Studies with a minor in Visual Cultures at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is an inaugural fellow of the “Restitution and Reparation: Africa and the Post-Colonial Condition” fellowship at The Africa Institute, UAE. She holds a B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature from Beijing Normal University and an M.A. in Asian and African Languages and Literatures from Peking University. Her research focuses on African literature and cultural expression, restitution and reparation, postcolonial and decolonial thought, and critical museum studies. Her dissertation, When Is Home: Death, Deferral, and the Ends of Restitution, examines how African literature, film, performance, and visual culture engage with and reimagine restitution. Her chapter, “An Eastern Gaze: Reconsidering ‘African Art’ from a Chinese Perspective,” appears in Entangled Histories and Ambivalent Feelings: China and Africa Encounters in Culture and Media (Routledge, 2025).