Steven Yao
Steven Yao earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley. He taught at Ohio State University from 1997 to 2002. Yao is the author of two books, Translation and the Languages of Modernism (Palgrave/St. Martins, 2002) and Foreign Accents: Chinese American Verse from Exclusion to Postethnicity (Oxford 2010). This book was honored with the 2010 Book Award in Literary Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies. Yao is also co-editor of Sinographies: Writing China (Minnesota 2008), Pacific Rim Modernisms (Toronto 2009), and Ezra Pound and Education (National Poetry Foundation May 2012). Yao’s academic interests include literary translation, poetry, modernist literatures, Asian American literature, cross-cultural poetics, and transpacific studies. In 2005 he was awarded a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). Yao has also served as a Stanford Humanities Center External Junior Faculty Fellow for 2005-06. He has published essays in journals such as Lit: Literature, Interpretation, Theory, Textual Practice, and Representations. For the 2012-13 academic year, Yao has been selected as an American Council on Education Fellow, and he will serve his fellowship at Holy Names University in Oakland, CA.
Phone: 315-859-4325
Address: 198 College Hill Rd.
Clinton, NY 13323
Phone: 315-859-4325
Address: 198 College Hill Rd.
Clinton, NY 13323
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Books by Steven Yao
Yao discusses a range of works, including Ezra Pound’s Cathay and the Angel Island poems. In addition, he examines the careers of four contemporary Chinese/American poets: Ha Jin, Li-young Lee, Marilyn Chin, and John Yau, each of whom bears a distinctive relationship to the linguistic and cultural tradition he or she seeks to represent. Specifically, Yao investigates the range of rhetorical and formal strategies by which these writers have sought to incorporate Chinese culture and, especially, language in their works. Combining such analysis with extensive social contextualization, Foreign Accents delineates an historical poetics of Chinese American verse from the early twentieth century to the present.
Papers by Steven Yao
Yao discusses a range of works, including Ezra Pound’s Cathay and the Angel Island poems. In addition, he examines the careers of four contemporary Chinese/American poets: Ha Jin, Li-young Lee, Marilyn Chin, and John Yau, each of whom bears a distinctive relationship to the linguistic and cultural tradition he or she seeks to represent. Specifically, Yao investigates the range of rhetorical and formal strategies by which these writers have sought to incorporate Chinese culture and, especially, language in their works. Combining such analysis with extensive social contextualization, Foreign Accents delineates an historical poetics of Chinese American verse from the early twentieth century to the present.