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A summer Levitt Center project involving 11 students, three professors, and several other members of the Hamilton community began in what was perhaps an unexpected way.

Steven Yao, the Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of Literature, delivered a paper as an invited participant at the conference, America's Asia/Asia's America. Yao's paper, "The Shape of Water: Rethinking Territory and Influence for Asian American Studies in a Global Age," discussed the need to reconfigure the dimensions of "Asian American" as a category beyond the boundaries of the nation-state.

Edmund A. Lefevre Professor of Literature Steven Yao has contributed an essay to the recently published volume, A New Literary History of Modern China

Steven Yao, the Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of Literature, has published the lead essay in the most recent edition (Vol. 3 No. 1) of the scholarly journal, Verge: Studies in Global Asias.

Alan Yeh ’18 blended his interests in food and Asian American history this summer by researching how food and foodways affect Asian racialization in the United States.

Steven Yao, the Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of Literature, delivered a keynote address at the 2016 Texas Tech Comparative Literature Symposium in Lubbock, Texas. His talk was titled "The Work of Translation in the Age of Digital Computability; or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Google Translate."

While many people recognize the value of a college education, not all appreciate the art behind educating. The Hamilton community has been fostering dialogues this year as part of the inaugural Talk About Teaching (TAT) series. Associate Dean of Faculty Penny Yee, who helps coordinate the variety of events, described the purpose of the series as “drawing attention to the practice of teaching at the college.” The events take place across campus, with noontime gatherings almost every Tuesday.

Barbara Gold (Classics), Steve Yao (English) and Brent Plate (Religious Studies) attended the Meeting of Directors of Humanities Centers at Small Liberal Arts Colleges at Wellesley College on Sept. 27.  This is a subgroup of the CHCI (Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes), an international group of colleges and universities that have (or will have/hope to have) humanities centers.

The Cantos, by 1905 Hamilton alumnus Ezra Pound, is an 800-page, unfinished epic poem that is divided into 120 sections, or cantos. The work is widely regarded as controversial due to its experimental style, being loosely structured and arcane, and Pound’s publicized fascist sympathies. “A good deal of the political and economic material in the Cantos is [infamously] wrong-headed,” John Rufo ’16 stated, “but the poetic method and forms are not inherently fascist or anything like that.”