Lucas Klein

Assoc Professor, School of International Letters and Cultures

lucas.klein@asu.edu

851 S Cady Mall Tempe, AZ 85287
Mail code: 0202

Campus: Tempe
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Long Bio

Lucas Klein (PhD Yale) is a father, writer, and translator. He is executive editor of the Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature (Oxford), author of The Organization of Distance (Brill, 2018), co-editor of Chinese Poetry and Translation (Amsterdam, 2019; free download), and translator of Xi Chuan 西川 (New Directions, 2012, 2022), Mang Ke 芒克 (Zephyr, 2018), Li Shangyin 李商隱 (NYRB, 2018), and Duo Duo 多多 (Yale, 2021).

At ASU he teaches classes on modern and premodern Chinese literature, Chinese writing on work/labor and nature/the environment, and translation and meta-sinology.

Education

Ph.D. East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University 2010
B.A. Literary Studies and Chinese, Middlebury College 2000

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Research Website URL

https://asu.academia.edu/LucasKlein?from_navbar=true

Google Scholar URL

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=G-znJggAAAAJ

Research Interests

At any given moment, I am likely translating classical or modern Chinese poetry into English, or else talking or writing about some sort of intersection between classical Chinese poetry, modern Chinese poetry, and translation.

Courses

2022 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
SLC 494	Special Topics
SLC 551	Global Approaches to Trans
CHI 799	Dissertation
CHI 795	Continuing Registration
CHI 792	Research
CHI 790	Reading and Conference

2022 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
CHI 795	Continuing Registration
CHI 593	Applied Project
CHI 599	Thesis
CHI 799	Dissertation
CHI 792	Research
CHI 790	Reading and Conference
CHI 690	Reading and Conference
CHI 595	Continuing Registration
CHI 592	Research
CHI 590	Reading and Conference

2021 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
JPN 501	East Asian Humanities
SLC 394	Special Topics
CHI 394	Special Topics
CHI 501	East Asian Humanities

2021 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
CHI 598	Special Topics
CHI 322	Chinese Literature

Honors / Awards

2019 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for Words as Grain: New & Selected Poems by Duo Duo 多多

2013 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prizewinner for Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems of Xi Chuan 西川

2013 Best Translated Book Award shortlist, Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems of Xi Chuan 西川

Editorships

Executive Editor, Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature

Translation Editor, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal

Executive Editor, Journal of Oriental Studies 東方文化 (2015 - 2021)

Expertise Areas