 | Haun Saussy |
Haun Saussy, the newly named Bird White Housum Professor of Comparative Literature, has a range of scholarly interests, including Chinese poetry, literature, aesthetics and culture.
Saussy's first book, "The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic," discussed the tradition of commentary that has grown up around the early Chinese poetry collection "Shi jing" (known in English as the "Book of Songs"). Saussy was awarded the American Comparative Literature Association's René Wellek Prize for the book. He helped Kang-I Sun Chang of Yale's Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures to edit "Chinese Women Poets, An Anthology of Poetry and Criticism from Ancient Times to 1911." His book "Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural China" is an account of the ways of knowing and describing specific to China scholarship, Chinese as well as foreign. Saussy is co-editor of the forthcoming "Sinographies: Writing China" and is editor of "Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization: The 2005 ACLA Report on the State of the Discipline," published in 2006.
Saussy's published articles have explored such topics as Chinese musicology, the current situation and theoretical perplexities of comparative literature, the history of the idea of oral literature, Haitian literature, health care for the global poor and contemporary art. He is working on a book about the concept of rhythm in psychology, linguistics, literature and folklore. With a collective of artists led by Mel Chin, he contributed to the design of some 60 sculptural installations for the new public and university library of San Jose, California, and to another art installation exploring the biology of vision, which went on tour in the fall of 2004.
Saussy taught at Stanford University from 1995 until his appointment at Yale in 2004. At Stanford, he served as chair of both the Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of Asian Languages. He previously taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, and was a visiting professor at the City University of Hong Kong during the fall semester in 2000.
A graduate of Duke University, Saussy studied at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris and the Institut National des Langues et Cultures Orientales in Paris before earning his M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale in comparative literature. While a graduate student, he also studied in the Inter-University Program in Chinese Language and Literature (Stanford Center) in Taipei, Taiwan.
Saussy has been an invited lecturer, visiting scholar and visiting professor at universities throughout the United States and beyond. Most recently, he was a visiting professor of aesthetics at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. He currently serves as vice-president of the American Comparative Literature Association.
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