Paul Rouzer Curriculum Vitae

1 Paul Rouzer Curriculum Vitae Address: 230D Folwell Hall Department of Asian Languages and Literatures 9 Pleasant St. SE Minneapolis, MN 55455 Phone: 612-626-1486 Email: prouzer@umn.edu Academic Employment University of Minnesota: Associate Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Literatures, July 2004- present Harvard University: Senior Preceptor for Literary Chinese, June 2003-June 2004 Harvard University: Preceptor for Literary Chinese, July 1997-June 2003 Columbia University: Associate Professor, Chinese Literature, 1995-1997; Assistant Professor, 1990-95 Columbia University: Visiting Professor, Chinese Literature, 1989-90 Harvard University: Sophomore Tutor, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, 1986-89 Harvard University, Editorial Assistant, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 1985-1989 Harvard University: Teaching Fellow, 1985-1987 Education Harvard University (A.B., Summa cum Laude in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, 1982). Harvard University (Ph.D., East Asian Languages and Civilizations, 1989). Dissertation title: The poetry of Wen Tingyun (812?-866?) and the development of late Tang aestheticism. Director: Stephen Owen. Publications Books (in process) Hanshan, Shide, and Fenggan. Berlin and Beijing: De Gruyter (A translation of the complete poems, part of De Gruyter s new Library of Chinese Humanities ; projected publication date 2016). On Cold Mountain; A Buddhist Reading of the Hanshan Poems. Seattle: University of Washington Press (under editorial revision, publication estimated Fall 2015).

Rouzer CV 2 Guidebook entries (in process) "Chinese Poetry" and "Chinese Literary Thought and Poetics". Evaluative essays in The Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature, Wiebke Denecke, Wai-yee Lee, and Xiaofei Tian, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015 [projected]. Books A New Practical Primer of Literary Chinese. Harvard University Asia Center (distributed by Harvard University Press), 2007. Articulated Ladies: Gender and the Male Community in Early Chinese Texts. Harvard University Asia Center (distributed by Harvard University Press), 2001. Writing Another's Dream: The Poetry of Wen Tingyun. Stanford University Press, 1993. Edited volumes The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (Fourth Edition). Roland Greene and Stephen Cushman (editors), Clare Cavanagh, Jahan Ramazani, Paul Rouzer (associate editors). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. Refereed Articles "Du Fu and the Failure of Lyric." Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 33 (2011): 27-53. The Life of the Party: Theorizing Clients and Patrons in Early China. Comparative Literature 58:1 (Winter 2006), 59-69. Early Buddhist Kanshi: Court, Country, and Kūkai. Monumenta Nipponica 59:4 (Winter 2004): 431-61. "The Classical Moment in China." In The Classical Moment: Views from Seven Literatures, David McCann and Gail Holst-Warhaft, eds., Roman and Littlefield, 1999, 47-73. "Watching the Voyeurs: Palace Poetry and the Yuefu of Wen Tingyun," Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 11 (1989): 13-34. Translations, guidebook entries, and informal pieces Poetry of China. Entry in the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (4th ed., Roland Greene, ed.). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. A Dream of Ruined Walls (an informal discussion of Du Fu s impact on Bashô). In Simply Haiku: A Quarterly Journal of Japanese Short Form Poetry (e-zine), Summer 2006, volume 4, no. 2. Web address: www.simplyhaiku.com Translation of the poetry of Wang Jiaoluan (pp. 188-94) for Kang-i Sun Chang and Haun Saussy, eds., Women Writers of Traditional China: An Anthology of Poetry and Criticism. Stanford University Press, 1999.

Rouzer CV 3 Reviews Nugent, Christopher. Manifest in Words, Written on Paper: Producing and Circulating Poetry in Tang Dynasty China, in East Asian Publishing and Society 2 (2012), 319-23. Robert Ashmore, The Transport of Reading: Text and Understanding in the World of Tao Qian (365-427), in HJAS, 72.1, June 2012, 170-78. Goh, Meow Hui. Sound and Sight: Poetry and Courtier Culture in the Yongming Era (483-493), in JAS 71.1, Feb. 2012, 206-07. Martin Huang, Negotiating Masculinities in Late Imperial China in Nan Nü 9 (2007), pp. 389-91. Paula Versano, Tracking the Banished Immortal: The Poetry of Li Bo and Its Critical Reception in HJAS 64.2, Dec. 2004, 503-511. Fusheng Wu, The Poetry of Decadence, in JAS, Aug. 1999, 821-23. Zongqi Cai, The Matrix of Lyric Transformation, in HJAS 58.2, Dec. 1998, 598-602. Ellen Widmer and Kang-i Sun Chang, Writing Women in Late Imperial China, in JAS, Nov. 1998, 1142-43. François Jullien, Éloge de la fadeur, in HJAS 54.1, June 1994, 277-80. Michael Fuller, The Road to East Slope: The Development of Su Shi's Poetic Voice, in The Journal of Sung and Yuan Studies 23 (1993), 205-16. Tse-tsung Chow, ed., Wen-lin: Studies in the Chinese Humanities, Volume Two, in Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 14 (1992), 157-61. Jeanne Larsen, Bronze Mirror, in Tricycle: The Buddhist Review (Winter, 1991), 102-04. Richard B. Mather, The Poet Shen Yueh, in JAS, May 1989, 369-70. Selected recent lectures and other presentations 2015 Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Vancouver. Organizer and discussant: Gods, Ghosts and Modernity in China and Japan. Panel 552, January 10, 2015 Workshop for contributors, Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature, Harvard University, December 4-6, 2014. Also co-led roundtable discussion of the future of premodern Chinese literary studies, with Stephen Owen (Harvard University) and Michael Fuller (UC Irvine) 2014 Sixteenth Annual University of South Carolina Comparative Literature Conference ("Translating the Ancient Classics in China and the West 1950 and Beyond"). "Cold Mountain and the Beats: A Different Kind of Hagiography." March 1, 2014. 2014 Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Seattle. Organizer and discussant: "East Asian Traditional Poetry in the Digital Age." Panel 368, January 10, 2014

Rouzer CV 4 2013 Annual Faculty Lecture, Program in Religious Studies, University of Minnesota. "Bodhisattva as Poet: Hakuin's Readings of Cold Mountain." April 5, 2013. 2012 Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Seattle. "The Peony Lantern: From Chinese Literati Narrative to B Movie." Panel 57, January 5, 2012. University of Alberta. On Hanshan: Or, What is Buddhist Poetry? Invited lecture, Department of East Asian Studies, April 7, 2011. Bungo Special Interest Group. On Teaching Literary Chinese. Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, Chicago. March 27, 2009. Harvard University. Du Fu and the Failure of Lyric. October 28, 2006. Presented at The Power of Words: The Interpretation of Premodern Chinese Literature, October 27-29. University of Minnesota, McKnight Summer Fellow Presentation. Poetic and Sexual Exchange in the Verse of Rai San yō and Ema Saikō. April 18, 2006. Early Modern Japan Network. Rai San yō s Nagasaki Poems: Domesticating (Sinicizing) the West. San Francisco Association for Asian Studies Conference, April 6, 2006. University of Minnesota, Center for Medieval Studies. Patrons, Banquets, and the Rise of Chinese Courtly Lyric. November 10, 2005. Harvard University, Traditional China Seminar. Sinicizing the Heike: Rai San yō s Historical Ballads. November 7, 2005. University of Southern California. Hungry and in Rags: The Moment of Pain in Du Fu. March 2, 2005. University of Minnesota. The Politics of Poetry: A Dialogue in Honor of Richard B. Mather (with Simona Sawhney, South Asian literature). May 14, 2004. Harvard University. Early Buddhist Kanshi: Court, Country, and Kūkai. For the workshop New Approaches to Chinese Textuality: Boundaries, Genres, and Contexts of Sino-Japanese Literature [kanshibun]. May 7-8, 2004. University of Oregon and the University of Minnesota. The Life of the Party: Towards a Politics of Friendship in Early China. December 2, December 12, 2003. Department Administrative Service, University of Minnesota Chair, Department of Asian Languages and Literatures, Fall 2008 to June 2013. Director of Graduate Studies, doctoral program in Asian Literatures, Cultures, and Media, Fall 2005 to Summer 2008. Organizing an innovative doctorate program in Asian literatures (applications beginning December 2004); working on degree requirements and department administrative rules; reading and judging admissions applications; submitting applications for outside funding. Graduate Studies committee, Fall 2004 to date.

Rouzer CV 5 Chair, Merit Review Committee, Spring 2005; evaluating yearly contribution of department faculty members for the determination of annual raises. Junior Faculty Review, Fall 2004-present. Reporting on the yearly activity of tenure-track faculty in the department for evaluation and in contribution to future tenure cases. Search committee, tenure track position in South Asian literature, Fall 2004. Service to the university Instructor in the "LearningLife Program in Adult Education", Winter 2013: Instructor in enrichment class, "Buddhism and Poetry," January 30-February 13 Steering committee, undergraduate Program in Religious Studies, Fall 2011 to date. Member of advisory board, Confucius Institute at the University of Minnesota, Fall 2010 to Fall 2013. CLA Task Force on the role of language study at the university, Fall 2008 to Fall 2013. CLA Task Force on the viability of an undergraduate major in Islamic studies, Spring 2009. Core faculty member, undergraduate Program in Religious Studies, Fall 2008 to Spring 2011. Service to the field Member, Division Executive Committee, East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900. Modern Language Association. 2013-2018. Associate editor, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (3 rd edition, 2012): chose authors and reviewed finished articles for 61 articles in Asian and ancient Classical poetics. Manuscript reviewer, Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews; Brill Publications; University of Hawai i Press; Journal of the Japanese Language and Literature Journal; T'ang Studies; Journal of the American Oriental Society. Usually review two-three manuscripts each year.