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Jonathan Stalling

Email Dr. Stalling at stalling@ou.edu

 

Jonathan Stalling is an Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Oklahoma specializing in Twentieth-Century/Contemporary American Poetry, Comparative Literature, and East-West Poetics.

Teaching:
Stalling’s recent courses include: East-West Poetry, Twentieth Century American Poetry, Buddhism and the Beats, Transpacific Literature and Criticism, What is (Conceptual) Poetry, American Literature, Postmodern Poetics, Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies, and World Literature.

Scholarly Interests/Projects
Stalling is the author of Poetics of Emptiness: Transformations of Asian Thought in American Poetry (Fordham University Press, Feb. 2010), and a co-editor of The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry, A Critical Edition (Fordham UP 2008). The author of numerous articles, and reviews in the Boston Review, CLEAR (Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews), World Literature Today, Jacket, Chain, he is currently working on a new book project tentatively titled, No-Self: Poetry in the Age of Postmodern Buddhism.

Poetry/Poetics:
Stalling’s first book of poetry, Grotto Heaven: A Revised Grammar Book (Chax Press) will be out winter 2009, and three new books: Yingelishi (Chanted Songs, Beautiful Poetry): Experiments in Sinophonic English (under consideration); Lost Wax: Chinese/English transformations of Lost Originals (in collaboration with the poet Mai Mang); and a chapbook entitled Nothing. Stalling is also the founder and director of the Mark Allen Everett Poetry Reading Series at the University of Oklahoma http://www.ou.edu/cas/english/poetry/Everett_Poetry_Series/Welcome.html

Editing
Stalling is a co-founder and Managing Editor of Chinese Literature Today: a Biannual Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture, and the Editor of the Chinese Literature Today Book Series with the University of Oklahoma Press. Stalling is also a Senior Contributing Editor at World Literature Today and works on the Chinese edition of the Magazine published jointly in collaboration with Beijing Normal University’s College of Chinese Language and Literature, and other Asia outreach activities/projects.

Translation Projects
Stalling has published translations of works by Shi Zhi and Bei Dao and Li Yu and is the translator of a collection of poetry in progress entitled, Winter Sun: The Poetry of Shi Zhi 1966-2007, and is the co-translator of a book-length collection of poems by Mang Ke with Huang Yibing. Stalling serves on the Chinese Translation Review Committee of World Literature Today’s Chinese Edition., and overseas the translation of all material published in the Chinese Literature Today initiatives.

Lectures/Readings
Stalling was an organizer of the “China and World Literature Today international Conference” held in Beijing in October 2008, and was recently invited to speak/read at the Second Lake Qinghai Poetry Festival held on the Tibetan Plateau (Qinghai Province) summer 2009.

 
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