Caleb Powell Haun Saussy

University Professor of Comparative Literature at University of Chicago. Has also taught at Yale, Stanford, and UCLA, in addition to a number of visiting positions abroad. Comparatist who relates Chinese literature to its Western counterpart. Expert on Ezra Pound and modern American poets. 2014 Guggenheim Fellow. Author of Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural China (2001) and The Problem of a Chinese Authentic (1993). Editor of Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization: The 2004 ACLA Report on the State of the Discipline (2006). Editor of The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition (2008) and of Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader (2009). Forthcoming books are The Ethnography of Rhythm: Notes on Writing and Orality and Sleected Essays and Letters of Li Zhi.