Haun Saussy

Haun Saussy is University Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. He has authored The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic (1993), Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural China (2001), The Ethnography of Rhythm: Orality and Its Technologies (2016), and Translation as Citation: Zhuangzi Inside Out (2017). Edited works include Chinese Women Poets, An Anthology of Poetry and Criticism from Ancient Times to 1911 (1999), Comparative Literature in an Era of Globalization (2004), Sinographies: Writing China (with Steven Yao and Eric Hayot, 2005), Chinese Walls in Time and Space (with Roger des Forges, Chiao-mei Liu, and Gao Minglu, 2009), Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader (2010), and Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics (with Perry Meisel, 2011). Together with César Dominguez and Darío Villanueva, he wrote Introducing Comparative Literature (2015).