Yiyi Luo

Thursday, 3:50 - 4:50 

& by Appointment via Zoom (please email in advance)

Professor Luo earned her BA from Fudan University, her MA from the University of Colorado-Boulder, and her PhD from Princeton University. Before joining the Chinese Program at UMass Amherst, she served as an Assistant Professor at Capital Normal University in Beijing. Her research focuses on medieval Chinese literature, culture, and religion, with a primary emphasis on early medieval Chinese poetry. Her extensive publications span a wide array of topics in medieval Chinese literature (3rd to 12th centuries), including intertextuality, court culture, the interplay between personal and public spaces in poetry, the rhetoric of reclusion, landscape representations, interactions between literary and religious communities, the formation of cultural memory and literary knowledge, as well as writings reflecting experiences of exile, nostalgia, and war.

Professor Luo has taught a diverse range of courses in both the US and China for more than a decade, accommodating class sizes from 10 to 300 students. Her forthcoming book, tentatively titled “Contesting Nostalgia: The Polyvocal Voices in the Poetry of Yu Xin (513-581 CE),” investigates the varied poetic voices in the works of Yu Xin, a prominent sixth-century poet, examining how a specific authorial image of him became predominant in subsequent eras.
 

Manuscript in Progress:

• Contesting Nostalgia: The Polyvocal Voices in the Poetry of Yu Xin (513-581 CE)

Articles in Progress:

• "Beyond Hermitage: Unveiling Sixth-Century China's Reclusive Realms"
• "Echoes from Mount Beimang: Poetry, Mortality, and Sacred Space in Ancient and Medieval China"

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:

• "The Early Reception of Yu Xin in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries," Journal of American Oriental Society, Volume 142.4 (2022)
• "Literary Responses to Religious Debates at the Northern Zhou Court," Early Medieval China, Volume 26 (2020)

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

• “A Recluse’s Frustration? Reconsideration of Yu Xin’s (513-518) ‘Fu on Small Garden’,” in Reading Fu Poetry: From the Han to Song Dynasties. Ed. Nicholas Morrow Williams. Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2022.

Translations into Chinese

• 赋在唐代诗歌历史上的地位 (Translation of Paul W. Kroll, “The Significance of the fu in the History of T'ang Poetry”). In Timothy Wai Keung Chan ed. “Tangdai de wuma, xiandao yu shifu” 唐代的舞馬、仙道與詩賦：柯睿自選集 (The Dancing Horses, Transcendence, and Poetry of the Tang: Selected Essays of Paul W. Kroll). Nanjing: Nanjing University Press, 2022.

Public-Facing Essays

Book review of Timothy Wai Keung Chan ed., The Dancing Horses, Transcendence, and Poetry of the Tang: Selected Essays of Paul W. Kroll 評《舞馬與馴鳶》︱柯睿的盛唐. Shanghai Review of Books 上海書評, August 27, 2021.