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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.