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Jonathan Stalling

Email Dr. Stalling at stalling@ou.edu

 

Jonathan Stalling specializes in twentieth-century American poetry and East-West poetics with additional research and teaching interests in multi-ethnic American poetry, cultural theory, and Asian American studies. Stalling's publications include articles, translations, poems, and reviews in Boston Review, CLEAR (Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews), Chain, and Verdure, as well as several book chapters on American poetry and poetics. He is the co-editor of a forthcoming book entitled The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry, A Critical Edition, and is working on a book project entitled Poetics of Emptiness, which traces the contributions and transformations of East Asian philosophy, religion, and poetics in Twentieth Century American poetry and poetics.  He is also working on a project that traces the reception and influence of Classical Chinese prosody on American poetry. A native of Eureka Springs Arkansas, Stalling began his education at the University of Hawaii and Beijing University before finishing his BA at UC Berkeley summa cum laude in Chinese Studies. He received his Masters with highest distinction in English Literature and Cultural Theory at the University of Edinburgh ( Scotland) in 2000, and his PhD in poetics at State University of New York at Buffalo (2005). 

 
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