Jonathan Stalling

Oklahoma, United States

Member Since: 12/01/2011


Jonathan Stalling is a poet, critic, translator, and editor who lives in Norman Oklahoma with is wife and three children. He is an Associate Professor of English at OU specializing in Modern-Contemporary American and East-West Poetics, Comparative Literature, and Translation Studies and is the co-founder and editor of Chinese Literature Today www.ou.edu/clt magazine and book series (University of Oklahoma Press) http://www.oupress.com/ECommerce/Book/Series/0/SeriesVolumeNumber/False?Query=series%3D48  and the (21st Century North American-Chinese Literature Research and Translation Series” (21世纪北美中国文学研究著译丛书) published by China’s Academy of Social Sciences Press http://www.csspw.com.cn/Item/20257.aspx. He is the Deputy Director of the Center for the Study of China’s Literature Abroad at Beijing Normal University http://bsd.iditao.com and is the founder and the director of the MAE Poetry Reading Series at OU http://maepoetryseries.com/index.html. His books include Poetics of Emptiness (Fordham University Press), Grotto Heaven (Chax Press), Yingelishi (Counterpath Press), Winter Sun: The Poetry of Shi Zhi (Oklahoma University Press), and he is an editor of The Chinese Character as a Medium for Poetry (Fordham UP). Stalling’s opera “Yingelishi (吟歌丽诗) http://jonathanstalling.com/yingelishi.html was performed at Yunnan University in 2010, and Winter Sun  is presently a finalist for the National Translation Award.  

 

Website: www.jonathanstalling.com


Publications

  • Poetics of Emptiness , Fordham UP (May 2010)
  • Grotto Heaven , Chax Press (May 2010)
  • Yingelishi , Counterpath Press (May 2011)
  • Winter Sun: Poetry of Shi Zhi , Oklahoma University Press (February 2012)

Employment

  • Associate Professor of English at University of Oklahoma (August 2006 - )

Degrees

  • Doctoral Degree in Poetics from SUNY Buffalo (May 2006)

Genres of Interest

Poetry