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Michelle Yeh Professor, Chinese Undergraduate Faculty Advisor Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Southern California Email: mmyeh@ Phone: (530) 752-4597 Office: 312A Sproul Hall

Research Interests
Traditional and modern Chinese poetry, comparative poetics, international modernism, translation

Current Projects
Completing a book manuscript on the tension between modernity and cultural identity in China; coediting a new anthology of modern poems on Taiwan; completing a collection of essays on aromatics in Asian and Western traditions

Major Publications

• Modern Chinese Poetry: Theory and Practice since 1917
• Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry (edited and translated)
• No Trace of the Gardener: Poems of Yang Mu (co-translated)
• Frontier Taiwan: An Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry (co-edited and co-translated)
• Essays on Modern Chinese Poetry
• Poetic Life
• Sailing to Formosa: A Poetic Companion to Taiwan (co-edited)
• Poetics of Aromatics
  

Honors and Awards

• Various grants from NEH
• Luce Foundation
• Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange
• Council for Cultural Affairs (Taiwan)
• University of California Fellowships in the Humanities, etc.

Courses Taught

• CHN 106 Traditional Chinese Poetry (in Translation)
• CHN 131 Traditional Chinese Poetry (in Chinese)
• CHN 132 Modern Chinese Poetry (in Chinese)
• CHN 109 Modern Literature of Taiwan
• CHN 110 Great Writers: Texts and Contexts
• CHN 120 Advanced Chinese