New Schools Workshop
This past year, as part of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities (IHUM), my colleagues and I organized a series of events at Princeton: pairing artists with faculty to experiment in […]
Presentation at Princeton Early Text Cultures Workshop
This Saturday morning (April 16), I will be presenting on a panel called “Intertextuality as Time Travel” with comparatist/classicist Leon Grek. I warmly welcome anyone in the New York, New […]
Is listening to tech entrepreneurs a mistake for students?
Silicon Valley billionaire Vinod Khosla recently published an essay in Medium titled “Is majoring in liberal arts a mistake for students?” He posits that understanding technology, coding, and statistics are more […]
New Resources Section: Digital Humanities and Data Visualization Tools
Over the past few months, I’ve been working with Princeton’s Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) as part of their collaboratory, in which a handful of grad students and postdocs work […]
Stephen Owen’s Translation of the Complete Works of Du Fu
De Gruyter has recently published Stephen Owen’s The Poetry of Du Fu, a translation of the complete works of (perhaps) China’s greatest poet. This marks a major step forward for […]
Presentation at MLA 2016
This coming Thursday, I will be presenting a paper at the 2016 MLA Convention in Austin, TX. I will present some of my work on gāthās in medieval China as part […]
Presentation at the American Oriental Society’s Western Branch Meeting
This Saturday, I will be presenting at the Western Branch meeting of the American Oriental Society. Western Branch always feels like going home, since it has evolved into a forum for […]
Contributions to the Digital Dictionary of Buddhism
As part of my dissertation research, I’ve spent a lot of time reading the biographies of many famous poet-monks from the Tang dynasty. Sometimes, it’s hard to keep all the names […]
Dynamic Equivocation: Selections from Zhuangzi
So I occasionally write experimental literature under pen names, and one of my translations, a hyper-Americanized version of the Daoist classic Zhuangzi, was recently published by the fine literary […]
Experiments in Translating Classical Chinese Poetry
This Tuesday, I will be presenting a series of rhythmic translations of poems by the Tang dynasty poet Jia Dao 賈島 (779–843) at AAS-in-Asia in Taipei.. It will be a panel […]