Risa Matsuo is a musicologist and comparative scholar. In 2010-2013, she studied at the Institute of Musicology and the Institute of Polish Literature at the University of Warsaw. From 2010-2013, she was a fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS-DC1) and in 2018, she received her PhD from the Department of Comparative Literature and Culture at the University of Tokyo. After completing a post-doctoral fellowship (JSPS-PD) and served as a Visiting Researcher at the CERC at Sorbonne Nouvelle University, she is currently an Assistant Professor at the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study. She received the Japanese Association of Comparative Literature Award in 2020.