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Yunte Huang received his BA in English from Peking University and Ph.D. in English from the Poetics Program at State University of New York at Buffalo. He taught as an assistant professor of English at Harvard University from 1999 to 2003, before joining the faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he was promoted to full professor of English in 2006. A Guggenheim Fellow, Huang is the author of many books, including Transpacific Displacement (Univ. of California Press, 2003), Transpacific Imaginations (Harvard Univ. Press, 2008), and Charlie Chan (Norton, 2010), which won the Edgar Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His most recent book, Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History (Liveright, 2018), was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and named one of the Best Books of the Year in 2018 by the New York Times, Newsweek, San Francisco Chronicle, and National Public Radio. Huang is also the editor of The Big Red Book of Modern Chinese Literature (Norton, 2016), the translator into Chinese of Ezra Pound's Cantos, and the translator into English of the poetry of Yu Xinqiao, Che Qianzi, and others. He has published articles in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Daily Beast, PMLA, Yale Review, and many others. As a bestselling author, he has been featured on the National Public Radio (Fresh Air, Morning Edition, On Point), C-SPAN TV, BBC, Australian National Radio, Irish National Radio, and many others.

• Ph.D. in English, State University of New York at Buffalo

• B.A. in English, Peking University, P. R. China

• Tong Tin Sun Chair Professor of English, Lingnan University, Hong Kong (2018 – present)

• Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara (2006 – present)

• Associate Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara (2004-2006)

• Assistant Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara (2003-2004)

• Assistant Professor of English, Harvard University (1999-2003)

• American literature

• Poetry and poetics

• Transpacific literature

• Translation studies

• ENG3005 Twentieth-Century American Literature

• ENG3264 Asian Voices in English – Fiction & Film

• ENG3385 Lifewriting

Books

• Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History. New York: Liveright/W. W. Norton. (2018)

• The Last Lyric: Selected Poems by Yu Xinqiao. Editor and translator. Honolulu: Tinfish Press. (2017)

• The Pisan Cantos and Selected Poems by Ezra Pound. Editor and translator. Changsha: Hunan Art and Literature Publishing House. (2017)

• The Big Red Book of Modern Chinese Literature: Writings from the Mainland in the Long Twentieth Century. New York: W. W. Norton. (2016)

• 《陈查理传奇：一个华人侦探在美国》(Chinese translation of Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History). Shanghai: Shanghai Art and Literature Press. (2014)

• 《陳查理傳奇：一個中國偵探在美國》(Chinese translation of Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History). Hong Kong: Chinese University Press. (2013)

• 《跨太平洋位移》(Chinese translation of Transpacific Displacement: Ethnography, Translation, and Intertextual Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature). Nanjing: Jiangsu People’s Publishing House. (2013)

• Madman with Broom: Selected Poems by Michael Palmer. Editor and translator. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press. (2011)

• Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History. New York: W. W. Norton. (2010)

• Transpacific Imaginations: History, Literature, Counterpoetics. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. (2008)

• Cribs. Honolulu: Tinfish Press. (2005)

• Transpacific Displacement: Ethnography, Translation, and Intertextual Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature. Berkeley: University of California Press. (2002)

• The Pisan Cantos and Selected Essays of Ezra Pound. Editor and translator. Guilin, China: Lijiang Publishing House. (1998)

• Shi: A Radical Reading of Chinese Poetry. New York: Roof Books. (1997)

• Selected Language Poems: An English/Chinese Bilingual Anthology. Co-editor and translator. Chengdu, China: Sichuan Art and Literature Publishing House. (1993)

Articles and Book Chapters

• “Lasting Lure of the Asian Mystery.” In PMLA 133.2 (2018): 384-387.

• “Mayberry, USA.” In Yale Review 106.2 (2018): 57-74.

• Review of Matthew Polly, Bruce Lee: A Life. In San Francisco Chronicle (June 29, 2018).

• “ABC of Reading Chinese Poetry.” In Los Angeles Review of Books (June 4, 2018).

• “Just Like Us.” In Lapham’s Quarterly (April 9, 2018).

• “An Excerpt of Inseparable.” In Southern Spaces (April 5, 2018).

• “The Amazing American Story of the Original Siamese Twins.” In The Wall Street Journal (March 31, 2018).

• “A Game on the High Seas.” In Iowa Review 47.1 (2017).

• “The Ironist Moment” (co-authored with Jie Zhang). In Foreign Literature Studies 39.2 (2017).

• Review of Franck Billé, Sinophobia. In Journal of Asian Studies 76.2 (2017).

• Review of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Writing Across the Landscape. In Iowa Review (February 2016).

• “Ezra Pound, Made in China.” In Paideuma 42 (2015): 39-55.

• “庞德的中国梦” (Ezra Pound’s Chinese Dream). 《书城》第十期 (2015).

• “美国想象里的中国人” (The Chinese in the American Imagination). 《书城》第十一期 (2014).

• “Transpacific and Asian American Counterpotics.” In Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry, ed. Walter Kalaidjian. New York: Cambridge University Press. (2014).

• “Chinese Whispers.” In Verge: Studies in Global Asias, ed. Eric Hayot and Tina Chen, University of Minnesota Press. (2014).

• Review of Anne Witchard, Lao She in London. In Journal of Asian Studies 73.1 (2014): 207-209.

• “Living Transpacifically.” In Transpacific Studies Anthology, ed. Viet Nguyen and Janet Hoskins. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. (2014).

• “诗歌的一指禅功：纪念著名诗人谢默斯·希尼” (In Memory of Seamus Heaney).《书城》第五期 (2014).

• “The Poetics of Error.” In Lyricism and the Reform Era, ed. Shengqing Wu and Jiaqian Gao. Shanghai: Shanghai Art and Literature Press (2013).

• “Read This and Blush.” Review of Nathaniel Dubin, The Fabliaux. In The Daily Beast (June 13, 2013).

• “Excerpts from Cribs.” In Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing, eds. Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith, Northwestern University Press. (2011).

• “Chinese Whispers.” In Poetry and Sound, ed. Marjorie Perloff and Craig Dworkin (University of Chicago Press), 2009.

• “Marco Polo: Meditations on Intangible Economy and Vernacular Imagination.” In Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West, ed. Suzanne Akbari and Amilcare Iannucci (University of Toronto Press) 2009.

• “Angel Island and the Poetics of Error.” In Poetry and Cultural Studies: A Reader, ed. Maria Damon and Ira Livingston (University of Illinois Press), 2009.

• “Basic English, Chinglish, and Translocal Dialect.” In English and Ethnicity, ed. Janina Brutt- Griffler and Catherine Evans Davies (Palgrave) 2006.

• “Was Ezra Pound a New Historicist?: Poetry and Poetics in the Age of Globalization.” Foreign Literature Studies 28.6 (2006): 28-44.

• “Our Literature, Their History: Between Appropriation and Denial.” Comparative Literature 57:3 (2005): 227-33.

• "Poetic Wisdom." Legal Studies Forum 29.1: 47-48 (2005).

• "Pidginizing Chinese." In Bilingual Games: Some Literary Investigations, ed. Doris Sommer. (Palgrave), pp. 205-220, (2003).

• “Writing Against The Chinese Diaspora.” boundary 2 26:1, (1999).

• “Translating Pound Translating Translating.” River City: A Journal of Contemporary Culture 17:2 (1997).

• “Chinese Literature in the Twenty-First Century.” MLA Annual Conference (Philadelphia) 2017

• “Ezra Pound, Made in China.” Translation Studies Conference, UC Santa Barbara, 2015

• “Poetic Transcoding.” American Comparative Literature Association Conference (New York City) 2014

• “Chinese Whispers.” Image and Text Conference, Fudan University, China, 2013

• “Why Charlie Chan Now?” Modern Language Association (Seattle) 2012

• “Online Reading and Media.” Transliteracies Conference (UC Santa Barbara) 2005

• "Belated Returns to America." Modernist Studies Association Conference (Vancouver) 2004

• "The Work of Translation." American Comparative Literature Association Conference (Ann Arbor) 2004

• "Hybridizing Chineseness: Contemporary Chinese and Chinese American Poets," discussant. 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (New York City) 2003

• "Charlie Chan, Imagism, and Asian American Poetics." MLA Convention (New Orleans) 2001

• "Multifarious Faces of the Language." The New Modernism: The Inaugural Conference of the Modernist Studies Association, Pennsylvania State University, State College, 1999

• “Charlie Chan vs. Imagism: Modern America’s Conceptualization of the Chinese Language.” Cross-Cultural Poetics Conference (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis), 1997

• “Ezra Pound and the Chinese and Jewish Traditions of Textual Practice.” Twentieth- Century Literature Conference (University of Louisville) 1997

• “The Translator’s Invisible Hand: The Problems in the Introduction of Contemporary Chinese Poetry.” Prospect: A Festival of Russian and American Poetry and Poets (Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey) 1996

• “The Reception of Chinese Poetry in the U.S.” Past, Present, Future Tense: A Conference On Contemporary Poetry (Cornell University) 1995

• Co-Editor, Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature

• Judge, PEN Biography Award, 2016-17

• Advisory Board Member, Center for Visual Biography, Smithsonian Institute, since 2016

• Advisory Board Member, Chinese Literature Today, since 2011

• Editorial Board Member, Hunan Art and Literature Publishing House, since 2014

• Judge, PEN USA Literary Awards, 2012

• Nominator, Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes, 2012

• Presenter, National Book Critics Circle Awards, 2011

• Judge, National Book Award, 2011

• Judge, PEN USA Translation Award, 2007

• Faculty advisor ("Performing Ethnicity": A Graduate Conference on Ethnic Studies, Harvard, 2003)

• Judge (Asian American Writers' Workshop Literary Awards, 2002; 2005)

• Chair (Modernism and Its Contexts, Seminar Series at the Humanities Center, Harvard, 2001-03)

• Organizer (Workshop in Asian American Literary Studies, Harvard University, 2000)

• Nominator (Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Writers' Awards, 2000, 2001)

• Manuscript Reader (Harvard University Press; Columbia University Press; University of California Press; Oxford University Press; Ohio State University Press; Wesleyan University Press; Fordham University Press; University of Hawaii Press; Routledge Press)

• Member: MLA, American Literary Translators Association

• Panel Chairs: “The Other Languages,” Cross-Cultural Poetics Conference (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1997); "Language Diversity and National Literatures," MLA Convention (2001); the Sixth Annual Symposium on Chinese Cultural Studies (Harvard, 2001); Bad Modernisms (The Humanities Center at Harvard, 2002); MLA Special Session, "Multilingualism and Modernism" (2004)

• Chair (Executive Committee for the MLA Discussion Group for Literature of the U.S. in Languages Other than English, 2004-05)

• Moderator ("The Future of Translation Studies," Symposium on Literary translation, UCSB, 2004)

• Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award, 2018

• Guggenheim Fellowship, 2014-2015

• Fellowship, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 2010-2011

• Winner, Edgar Allan Poe Award, 2011

• Winner, California Book Award, 2010

• Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award, 2010

• Special Jury Prize, Theatre Library Association, 2010

• Finalist, PEN USA Literary Awards, 2010

• Finalist, Agatha Christie Award, 2010

• Finalist, Anthony Award, 2010

• Finalist, National Award for Arts Writing, 2010

• Honorary Title, Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, 2010

• Poet-in-Residence, California State University, Los Angeles, 2006

• Faculty Senate Award for Junior Faculty Research, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2003-2004

• Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Faculty Collaborative Project Award, UCSB, 2003-2004

• Faculty Grant for New Course Designs in Ethnic Studies, Harvard University, 2001-02

• Course Innovation Grant, Office of Undergraduate Education, Harvard University, 2001-02

• Clark-Cooke Research Fund, Harvard University, 2000, 2001, 2002

• New York State Council On The Arts Literature Program Fund Award for 1998-99

• Second Prize for the Best Foreign Language Books, 1999

• Graduate Teaching Assistantship Award from 1994 to 1999, SUNY Buffalo

• Mark Diamond Research Fund Award for 1997, SUNY Buffalo

• Eugene Nida Translation Prize, 1988, Peking University Press