Steering Committee
Yunte
Huang, Chair, Steering
Committee
Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo
Professor, Department
of English
Yunte Huang came to the U.S. in
1991 after graduating from Peking University with a B.A. in
English. He received his Ph.D. from the Poetics Program at
SUNY-Buffalo in 1999 and taught as an Assistant Professor
of English at Harvard University from 1999-2003. He is the
author of Transpacific Displacement: Ethnography, Translation,
and Intertextual Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature
(2002) and Shi: A Radical Reading of Chinese Poetry (1997),
and the translator into Chinese of Ezra Pound's The Pisan
Cantos. He is currently working on two book projects, "The
Deadly Space Between": Literature and History in the
Age of Transpacific Imagination and Poetry and Globalization:
Essays in the Poetics of Medium and Translation.
Jody
Enders
Ph.D, University of Pennsylvania
Professor of French
and Theater
Professor of French and Theater, Jody
Enders is a Guggenheim fellow and winner of the Aldo and Jeanne
Scaglione Prize in French and Francophone Studies from the
Modern Language Association for Rhetoric and the Origins
of Medieval Drama (Cornell, 1992). She was Chair of the
interdisciplinary Medieval Studies Program in 2001-2002 and
is the author of numerous articles on early drama, rhetoric,
epic, romance, and lyric poetry in such journals as PMLA,
Rhetorica, Olifant, Modern Language Quarterly, Exemplaria
and Comparative Drama. Her Medieval Theater of
Cruelty (Cornell, 1998) explores the interplay among
torture, rhetoric, and aesthetics. Her latest work, Death
by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends (Chicago, 2002)
is the winner of the 2003 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding
Research in Theater History and Cognate Studies. She also
serves as the editor of the journal Theatre Survey.
Sara
Lindheim
Ph.D., Brown University
Associate Professor, Classics
Department
Areas of interest include Latin poetry,
Sappho, critical and feminist theory.
Jon
Snyder
Ph.D., Yale University
Professor, French
and Italian Department
Areas of interest include Italian literature
and comparative European literature, Early modern and modern
periods, Literary theory and Continental philosophy
Jocelyn
Holland
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Habilitation, University of Freiburg
Professor, Department
of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies
Jocelyn Holland's areas of research include
Goethe, German romanticism, rhetoric, and the philosophy of
nature, with an emphasis on the intersections between the
history of science and literature.
Suzanne
Jill Levine
Ph.D., New York University
Professor, Spanish
and Portuguese Department
Areas of interest include Latin American
literature, twentieth century fiction, literary translation
and theory, comparative literary studies.
Sydney
Lévy
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Vice-Chair and Graduate Advisor, Comparative Literature
Professor, French
and Italian Department
Areas of interest include contemporary
poetry, literary theory, fantastic literature, and science
and literature.
Michael
Berry
Ph.D., Columbia University
Chinese Assistant Professor, East
Asian Languages and Cultures
Areas of research include modern and
contemporary Chinese literature, transnational Chinese cinema,
popular culture in modern China, fiction and drama of late
imperial China, and translation studies. Berry’s approach
is transnational and his work addresses the richness and diversity
of Chinese art and culture as it has manifested itself in
mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and overseas Chinese communities.
He is also the translator of several works of contemporary
Chinese fiction.
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