Yunte Huang

Dr. Yunte Huang is a distinguished scholar, best-selling author, past Guggenheim Fellow, and currently a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is fluent in Chinese and English; and has translated Chinese poetry into English, and The Pisan Cantos of Ezra Pound into Chinese. His ideas about the interconnections between the literature and culture of East and West are widely influential and encapsulated in two books on the “transpacific,” a term and concept he devised to interrogate East-West cross-cultural currents, both historical and imaginative. More recently, he has written three books examining East-West cultural exchanges, as these are embedded in the dynamics of racism, by focusing on cultural icons, such as Charlie Chan, the “original” Siamese twins (Chang and Eng), and Anna May Wong. His study of Anna May Wong will come out in August 2023, and his latest scholarly book (University of Chicago Press 2022) is Chinese Whispers: Toward a Transpacific Poetics, which investigates how poetry both facilitates and complicates the production of “transpacific” meaning.