Haun Saussy

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Caleb Powell Haun Saussy (born February 15, 1960) is University Professor at the University of Chicago. His primary teaching and research interests include classical Chinese poetry and commentary, literary theory, comparative study of oral traditions, problems of translation, pre-twentieth-century media history, and ethnography and ethics of medical care. [1]

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Early life and education

Saussy is the son of socialite Lola Haun Saussy [2] and Tupper Saussy, an American musician and conspiracy theorist. Raised in suburban Nashville, Tennessee, he attended Deerfield Academy and then received his B.A. in comparative literature and classics at Duke University in 1981. He received his M.Phil. and Ph.D. at Yale University in comparative literature in 1987 and 1990 respectively. Between college and graduate school, he studied linguistics and Chinese in Paris and Taiwan.

Career

Saussy was previously an assistant professor (1990–95) and associate professor (1995–97) at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was an associate professor, full professor, and chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University, prior to joining the Yale faculty in 2004. Saussy moved to the University of Chicago in 2011. [3]

Research

Saussy's first book, The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic (Stanford UP, 1993), 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). This was followed by Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural China (Harvard University Asia Center, 2001), an account of the ways of knowing and describing specific to China scholarship, and Sinographies, co-edited with Steven Yao and Eric Hayot. Other interests are reflected in the edited books Women Writers of Traditional China: An Anthology of Poetry and Criticism (with Kang-i Sun Chang and Charles Kwong, 1999), Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader (2009) and Ernest Fenollosa / Ezra Pound, The Chinese Written Character: A Critical Edition (with Jonathan Stalling and Lucas Klein, 2008). Saussy and Perry Meisel supplied introductions, notes and errata to the reissue of Wade Baskin's translation of Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics (2011).

In 2016 he published The Ethnography of Rhythm: Orality and Its Technologies (Fordham University Press), which subsequently won the Scaglione Prize for Comparative Studies of the MLA. In 2017 followed Translation as Citation: Zhuangzi Inside Out (Oxford University Press). With Rivi Handler-Spitz and Pauline Chen Lee, he edited and translated A Book to Burn And A Book to Keep (Hidden): Selected Writings of Li Zhi (Columbia University Press, 2016). He is an avid cyclist, memorizer of verb paradigms and lyric poetry, and contributor to a variety of art installations including the innovative Martin Luther King, Jr. Library in San Jose, California. His articles range widely, from the imaginary universal languages of Athanasius Kircher to Chinese musicology to the great Qing dynasty novel Honglou meng and the history of oral-poetry theory. He edited the American Comparative Literature Association's 2004 report on the state of the discipline.

With others, he maintains a blog, www.printculture.com. Among his editorial responsibilities are: co-editor, Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews; co-editor, Critical Inquiry; editorial board member, Zhongguo xueshu / China Scholarship, Comparative Literature, Warring States Papers, Modern Philology, Cross-Currents, and Health and Human Rights: An International Journal, etc. With Lazar Fleishman of Stanford University, he edits a series, "Verbal Art," now published by Fordham University Press.

Personal life

Saussy is married to Olga V. Solovieva, a Yale University Ph.D (2006) and researcher at Nikolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. He has two children from his first marriage, Liana and Caleb, and three from his second marriage. [4] [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Haun Saussy". Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC) at The University of Chicago. Retrieved April 30, 2023.
  2. ↑ "News & Opinion: The Amazing Tupper Saussy (Memphis Flyer . 05-18-98)".
  3. ↑ "Haun Saussy, Professional History" (PDF). Retrieved April 30, 2023.
  4. ↑ "Haun Saussy and Olga Solovieva in Dunedin". A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature. November 30, 2014. Retrieved April 30, 2023.
  5. ↑ "Olga V. Solovieva".
  6. ↑ "American Academy of Arts & Sciences".
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