Haun Saussy
Caleb Powell Haun Saussy is an American professor of comparative literature at the University of Chicago.
Life
Raised in suburban Nashville, Tennessee, he attended Deerfield Academy before earning his B.A. in comparative literature and classics from Duke University in 1981. Between his undergraduate and graduate studies, he focused on linguistics and also studied Chinese at École Pratique des Hautes Etudes and Institut National des Langues et Cultures Orientales in Paris and Taiwan. He subsequently received his M.Phil. and Ph.D. in comparative literature from Yale University in 1987 and 1990, respectively.Saussy served as an assistant professor and associate professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He later held positions as associate professor and full professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. In 2011, He transitioned to the University of Chicago.
His editorial responsibilities include serving as co-editor for Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews and Critical Inquiry. He is also a member of the editorial boards for Zhongguo Xueshu/China Scholarship, Comparative Literature, Warring States Papers, Modern Philology, Cross-Currents, and Health and Human Rights, among others.
Books
The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural China The Ethnography of Rhythm: Orality and Its Technologies Translation as Citation: Zhuangzi Inside Out- Ed., Women Writers of Traditional China: An Anthology of Poetry and Criticism
- Ed., Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader written by Paul Farmer
- Ed., The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition written by Ernest Fenollosa and Ezra Pound
- Ed., with Perry Meisel, Wade Baskin's translation of Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics
- Ed., with Rivi Handler-Spitz and Pauline Chen Lee, ''A Book to Burn and A Book to Keep : Selected Writings of Li Zhi''
Family
Saussy is the son of Lola Haun Saussy and Tupper Saussy, an American musician and conspiracy theorist. He is married to Olga V. Solovieva, a Yale University Ph.D. and researcher at Nikolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. He has two children from his first marriage, Liana and Caleb, and three from his second marriage.Honors
- President of the American Comparative Literature Association.
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- Graduate President of the Alpha of Connecticut Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.
- Scaglione Prize for Comparative Studies from the Modern Language Associatio.