{"id":968,"date":"2021-08-02T02:35:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T02:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/complit.hku.hk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Dr-Beth-Harper.jpg"},"modified":"2024-08-26T03:14:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T03:14:57","slug":"beth-harper-2","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/complit.hku.hk\/index.php\/faculty\/beth-harper-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Beth Harper (Assistant Professor)"},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"class_list":["post-968","attachment","type-attachment","status-inherit","hentry"],"description":{"rendered":"

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ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH BIO<\/strong><\/p>\n

I work across premodern European and Chinese literature and theory, with particular interests in tragedy, lyric, and comparative poetics. I am at work on a book entitled: Nothing but Time: the Tragic Bind of the Child in European Tragedy<\/em> which reframes the European tragic tradition as a meditation on failed futurity. My next project: The Therapeutic Lyric will examine how the prestige literary cultures of ancient China and the Latin West use the lyric form to craft an art of life. Recent work has appeared in Shakespeare, English Studies, postmedieval, Comparative Literature: East & West, The Journal of East-West Thought<\/em>, and is forthcoming in the Journal of World Literature and History of Humanities<\/em>. A committed premodern comparatist, I have undergone training in Latin, Ancient Greek, French, German, Italian and Spanish, as well as classical and modern Chinese. Before arriving in Hong Kong, I was a Yale-China fellow at China Central Normal in Wuhan, a teaching fellow at the \u00c9cole normale sup\u00e9rieure in Lyon, and a researcher-in-residence at the \u00c9cole normale sup\u00e9rieure in Paris. Prior to my appointment in Comparative Literature, I held a post-doctoral fellowship in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at HKU. <\/p>\n

Education<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 MA, Sinology, SOAS, University of London (2018)
\n\u2022 PhD, Comparative Literature and Renaissance Studies, Yale University (2016)
\n\u2022 International Chinese Language Program, National Taiwan University (2014)
\n\u2022 MPhil, European Literature and Culture, Cambridge University (2008)
\n\u2022 MA, Classics, Cambridge University (2007)<\/p>\n

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 2024. “East-West Cross-Cultural Encounters of the Lyric: Horace (BCE 65-8) and Tao Yuanming (CE 365-427)<\/a>“, Journal of World Literature<\/em> 9.2: 186-206.
\n\u2022 2024. \u201cQuo vadis, Comparative Environmental Humanities?\u201d (with Tristan Brown)<\/a>, History of Humanities<\/em> 9.1: 99-113.
\n\u2022 2023. \u201cMountains, Meaning, Mediation: Petrarch\u2019s \u2018Ascent to Mont Ventoux\u2019 and the ecological imagination of classical Chinese poetry<\/a>\u201d, in postmedieval<\/em> 14: 647-667.
\n\u2022 2020. \u201cDo not allow an empty goblet to face the moon\u201d: lyrical materialities in the drinking poems of Li Bai \u674e\u767d\uff08701-762\uff09and Du Fu \u675c\u752b(712-770)\u201d<\/a>, \u201cContract Zones: Fur\/Flesh\/Fabric\/Fieldstone\u201d, postmedieval<\/em> 11.1: 57-67.
\n\u2022 2019. \u201cThe early modern (non) reception of the Zhuangzi \u838a\u5b50 text\u201d<\/a>, the Journal of East-West Thought<\/em>, 4.9: 23-37.
\n\u2022 2019. \u201c\u201cA disease that\u2019s in my flesh which I must needs call mine\u2019\u2019: Lear, Macbeth and the Fear of Futurity\u201d<\/a>, English Studies<\/em>, 100.6: 604-626.
\n\u2022 2019. \u201cTheories of Tragedy: Transcultural Hauntings in Shakespeare\u2019s Hamletand Ji Junxiang\u2019s The Orphan of Zhao\u201d<\/a>, Comparative Literature: East & West<\/em>, 3.1: 38-52.
\n\u2022 2017. \u201c\u2018And men ne\u2019er spend their fury on a child\u2019 \u2013 Killing Children in Shakespeare\u2019s Early Histories\u201d<\/a>, Shakespeare<\/em>, 13.3: 193-209.<\/p>\n

Courses taught for the department<\/strong><\/p>\n

CLIT 3021 Advanced Studies in Theory: Reading with the Ancients
\nCLIT 2102 The Tragic Imagination
\nCLIT 2008 World, Text, Critic
\nCLIT 1008 Ways of Reading: an Introduction to the Theory of Literature <\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"

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