Lucas Klein
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851 S Cady Mall Tempe, AZ 85287
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Mail code: 0202Campus: Tempe
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Lucas Klein (PhD Yale) is a father, writer, and translator. He is associate 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: Rights and Wrongs (Amsterdam, 2019; free download) and the Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature in Translation (2023), and translator of Mang Ke 芒克 (Zephyr, 2018), Li Shangyin 李商隱 (NYRB, 2018), Duo Duo 多多 (Yale, 2021), Xi Chuan 西川 (New Directions, 2012, 2022), and Yu Xuanji 魚玄機 (Oxford, 2024).
At ASU he teaches classes on modern and premodern Chinese literature; poetry, translation, and translation theory; meta-sinology; Chinese writing on labor and the environment; and kung-fu movies.
- Ph.D. East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University 2010
- B.A. Literary Studies and Chinese, Middlebury College 2000
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
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| CHI 592 | Research |
| CHI 595 | Continuing Registration |
| CHI 690 | Reading and Conference |
| CHI 780 | Practicum |
| CHI 784 | Internship |
| CHI 792 | Research |
| CHI 795 | Continuing Registration |
| CHI 799 | Dissertation |
| CHI 599 | Thesis |
| CHI 593 | Applied Project |
| SLC 590 | Reading and Conference |
| SLC 202 | Expl Culture: Words/Image/Stor |
| CHI 394 | Special Topics |
| SLC 394 | Special Topics |
| SLC 792 | Research |
| CHI 590 | Reading and Conference |
| CHI 790 | Reading and Conference |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| CHI 590 | Reading and Conference |
| CHI 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| CHI 592 | Research |
| CHI 595 | Continuing Registration |
| CHI 690 | Reading and Conference |
| CHI 780 | Practicum |
| CHI 784 | Internship |
| CHI 790 | Reading and Conference |
| CHI 792 | Research |
| CHI 795 | Continuing Registration |
| CHI 799 | Dissertation |
| CHI 580 | Practicum |
| CHI 593 | Applied Project |
| SLC 593 | Applied Project |
| CHI 394 | Special Topics |
| SLC 394 | Special Topics |
| CHI 598 | Special Topics |
| ENG 394 | Special Topics |
| HON 394 | Special Topics |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| CHI 590 | Reading and Conference |
| CHI 592 | Research |
| CHI 595 | Continuing Registration |
| CHI 690 | Reading and Conference |
| CHI 790 | Reading and Conference |
| CHI 792 | Research |
| CHI 795 | Continuing Registration |
| CHI 799 | Dissertation |
| CHI 599 | Thesis |
| CHI 593 | Applied Project |
| CHI 691 | Seminar |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| CHI 790 | Reading and Conference |
| CHI 792 | Research |
| CHI 795 | Continuing Registration |
| CHI 799 | Dissertation |
| CHI 598 | Special Topics |
| SPA 598 | Special Topics |
| SPA 494 | Special Topics |
| CHI 494 | Special Topics |
| SLC 494 | Special Topics |
| SLC 598 | Special Topics |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| CHI 590 | Reading and Conference |
| CHI 592 | Research |
| CHI 595 | Continuing Registration |
| CHI 690 | Reading and Conference |
| CHI 790 | Reading and Conference |
| CHI 792 | Research |
| CHI 795 | Continuing Registration |
| CHI 799 | Dissertation |
| CHI 599 | Thesis |
| CHI 593 | Applied Project |
| CHI 691 | Seminar |
| CHI 394 | Special Topics |
| SLC 691 | Seminar |
| SLC 394 | Special Topics |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| CHI 790 | Reading and Conference |
| CHI 792 | Research |
| CHI 795 | Continuing Registration |
| CHI 799 | Dissertation |
| SLC 551 | Global Approaches to Trans |
| SLC 494 | Special Topics |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| CHI 590 | Reading and Conference |
| CHI 592 | Research |
| CHI 595 | Continuing Registration |
| CHI 690 | Reading and Conference |
| CHI 790 | Reading and Conference |
| CHI 792 | Research |
| CHI 795 | Continuing Registration |
| CHI 799 | Dissertation |
| CHI 599 | Thesis |
| CHI 593 | Applied Project |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| CHI 501 | East Asian Humanities |
| CHI 394 | Special Topics |
| SLC 394 | Special Topics |
| JPN 501 | East Asian Humanities |
2021 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| CHI 322 | Chinese Literature |
| CHI 598 | Special Topics |
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
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)