Creative Campus

September 13-14, 2010, visiting writers Yunte Huang, Jeanne Leiby, Glenn Mott will be on hand for poetry readings; speaking engagements regarding China, Journalism, Writing Submissions; & 'how to's' with presses & publishers.  Rounding out their visit will be a panel discussion regarding careers & "what to do with a humanities major besides teach".  Pam Penick and Dan Waterman will also participate in the panel.

Presented in partnership with Creative Writing's Bankhead Visiting Writers Series and the Department of Journalism.

Biographies

Yunte Huang came to the U.S. in 1991 after graduating from Peking University with a B.A. in English. He received his Ph.D. from the Poetics Program at SUNY-Buffalo in 1999 and taught as an Assistant Professor of English at Harvard University from 1999-2003. He is the author of Transpacific Imaginations: History, Literature, Counterpoetics (2008),  CRIBS (2005), Transpacific Displacement: Ethnography, Translation, and Intertextual Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature (2002), and  Shi: A Radical Reading of Chinese Poetry (1997), and the translator into Chinese of Ezra Pound's The Pisan Cantos. His new book, Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History , was published by W. W. Norton in August 2010.

Read Reviews of Huang's recent release.

Read about Huang and his recent book on Charles Bernstein's blog.

Jeanne Leiby grew up Downriver Detroit. She graduated from the University of Michigan, earned her MA from the Bread Loaf School of English/Middlebury College, and her MFA from the University of Alabama. Her stories have appeared in Fiction, New Orleans Review, Greensboro Review, Indiana Review among other magazines. Her collection of short stories title Downriver, winner of the Doris Bakwin Prize from Carolina Wren Press, was published in fall 2007.  Jeanne is the editor of The Southern Review and associate professor of English at Louisiana State University. For more on Leiby and The Southern Review, visit http://www.lsu.edu/tsr/

Jeanne Leiby is on Twitter follow @jleiby

Glenn Mott is managing editor of Hearst’s King Features Syndicate in New York, whose columnists include Amy Goodman, Stanley Crouch, Rich Lowry, and over seventy feature writers. For the 2008-2009 academic year he was a Fulbright Lecturer in Journalism at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

In 2006 he was part of the fact-finding delegation for the American Society of Newspaper Editors, meeting with some of China’s top leadership, including a meeting with officials in Zhongnanhai. He is author of the book Analects on a Chinese Screen.

Glenn Mott is on Twitter follow @Zhengyou