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Lucas Klein
- Lucas.Klein@asu.edu
- 851 S Cady Mall Tempe
Assoc Professor, Chinese
Faculty, TEMPE Campus, Mailcode 0202
Biography:
Lucas Klein (PhD Yale) is a father, writer, and translator. He is executive editor of the Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature (Oxford), author of The Organization of Distance (Brill, 2018), co-editor of Chinese Poetry and Translation (Amsterdam, 2019; free download), and translator of Xi Chuan 西川 (New Directions, 2012, 2022), Mang Ke 芒克 (Zephyr, 2018), Li Shangyin 李商隱 (NYRB, 2018), and Duo Duo 多多 (Yale, 2021).
At ASU he teaches classes on modern and premodern Chinese literature, Chinese writing on work/labor and nature/the environment, and translation and meta-sinology.
Education:
- Ph.D. East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University 2010
- B.A. Literary Studies and Chinese, Middlebury College 2000
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At any given moment, I am likely translating classical or modern Chinese poetry into English, or else talking or writing about some sort of intersection between classical Chinese poetry, modern Chinese poetry, and translation.
| Fall 2021 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| CHI 394 | Special Topics |
| SLC 394 | Special Topics |
| CHI 501 | East Asian Humanities |
| JPN 501 | East Asian Humanities |
| Spring 2021 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| CHI 322 | Chinese Literature |
| CHI 598 | Special Topics |
Honors / Awards:
2019 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for Words as Grain: New & Selected Poems by Duo Duo 多多
2013 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prizewinner for Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems of Xi Chuan 西川
2013 Best Translated Book Award shortlist, Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems of Xi Chuan 西川
Editorships:
Executive Editor, Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature
Translation Editor, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
Executive Editor, Journal of Oriental Studies 東方文化 (2015 - 2021)
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