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An article by Associate Professor of English and Assistant Dean of Faculty for Diversity Initiatives Steven Yao appears in the latest issue of the journal Representations (Summer, 2007). Yao's article, "Toward a Prehistory of Asian American Verse: Pound, Cathay, and the Poetics of Chineseness," examines the various terms -- tonal, rhetorical, thematic and formal -- by which Ezra Pound sought to present Chinese poetic culture and identity in his renowned collection of translations. This article is part of Yao's current book project, "Foreign Accents: Chinese American Verse and the Counter-Poetics of Difference in the U.S., 1910-Present." Representations is a publication of the University of California Press.

Associate Professor of English Steven Yao delivered a lecture at Meiji University in Tokyo, Japan, on May 25. His lecture, titled "Recent Theoretical Issues in Ethnic American Literature in the U.S.," introduced Japanese scholars and students of ethnic American literature to current debates about the concept of "hybridity" in Asian American and Postcolonial literary theory. He was invited to speak at Meiji University by Professor Yoshiaki Koshikawa. Yao's talk stemmed from his current project, "Foreign Accents: Chinese American Verse and the Counter-Poetics of Difference in the U.S., 1910-Present."

Associate Professor of English Steven Yao presented a paper titled "From the Language of Race to the Poetics of Ethnicity in the Rise of Asian American Verse," on April 22, at the annual conference for the American Comparative Literature Association, which was held in Puebla, Mexico. Yao is also a member of the advisory board for the organization, and currently the only member representing a liberal arts college.