Associate Professor of English and Associate Dean of Faculty for Diviersity Initiatives Steven Yao gave a lecture on Feb. 26 at Northwestern University. Invited as part of the "Reading World Literature" lecture series hosted by the Program in Comparative Literary Studies, Yao presented a talk titled "On Gaps, Gradients, and (Pacific) Rims: Rethinking the Space of Comparative Literature."
In the talk, Yao proposed a new model of the "gradient" for conceptualizing the space of "difference" for the purposes of comparison. In addition, he discussed Pound's "Cathay" and the Angel Island poems as part of a formation that he calls "Pacific Rim Modernism."
In the talk, Yao proposed a new model of the "gradient" for conceptualizing the space of "difference" for the purposes of comparison. In addition, he discussed Pound's "Cathay" and the Angel Island poems as part of a formation that he calls "Pacific Rim Modernism."
