Rate My Professor Haun Saussy

Saussy's primary teaching and research interests include classical Chinese poetry and commentary, literary theory, the comparative study of oral traditions, problems of translation, pre-twentieth-century media history, and the ethnography and ethics of medical care in resource-poor settings. His major monographs are The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic (Stanford University Press, 1993), Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural China (Harvard University Asia Center, 2001), The Ethnography of Rhythm: Orality and Its Technologies (Fordham University Press, 2016), Translation as Citation: Zhuangzi Inside Out (Oxford University Press, 2017), Are We Comparing Yet? On Standards, Justice, and Incomparability (Bielefeld University Press, 2019), and The Making of Barbarians: China in Multilingual Asia (Princeton University Press, 2022). Among his edited volumes are Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), Sinographies: Writing China (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader (University of California Press, 2010), and A Book to Burn and a Book to Keep (Hidden): Selected Writings of Li Zhi (Columbia University Press, 2016). Saussy has received the René Wellek Prize from the American Comparative Literature Association for The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic in 1996 and for Translation as Citation in 2018, the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize in Comparative Literary Studies from the Modern Language Association for The Ethnography of Rhythm in 2017, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014-2015, and a John P. Birkelund Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin in 2018. His scholarship in Literature has garnered over 3,700 citations on Google Scholar.