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philoSOPHIA Forum on Translation: Cycles of Engendered/Endangered Contemporaneity in Han Bo’s China Eastern Railway Poems

Thursday, March 23, 2023

I’m grateful and pleased not only to have my own work in the latest issue of philoSOPHIA, but also to share space with the writer and artist Han Bo alongside scholars and translators Sun Dong, Yuan Gao, Yuming Piao, and Yizhong Ning in a special forum focused on Han Bo’s China Eastern Railway 《中东铁路》 cycle of […]

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Meditations in an Emergency: The Cosmopolitan, the Quotidian, and the Anthropocene Turn in Sun Dong’s 2020 Pandemic Poetry

Thursday, September 24, 2020

This past July I spent two weeks in the mountain village of Chenjiapu translating a set of poems by the Nanjing-based poet Sun Dong. She was able to join me for a few days toward the end of the residency, and we worked together on drafts of the translations. I finished the residency with drafts of two dozen poems […]

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“Of Rare Compatibility”: Jen Bervin’s Silk Poems and Making Kin in the Sericene in The Journal of Foreign Languages

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

I’m pleased to see my article on Jen Bervin’s Silk Poems and the Anthropocene appear in JFLC. Thanks go out to editor Lauri Scheyer in particular. The paper can be downloaded here and here. Abstract: Scripting what may be read as a “string figure” companion to Donna Haraway’s Chthulucene, Jen Bervin’s 2017 Silk Poems project becomes […]

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