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The word "respondent" in conferences usually means "in response to others' papers" given live although written in advance. By "pre-respondent" we mean something different: a paper in response to work by Marjorie Welish--not work by others--not to be read in public as a free-standing paper yet circulated to the other conference participants in advance. These papers are published online, and subsequently in book format with the papers given live.
Ron Janssen has just returned from three years in China, two of them as Fulbright lecturer in American literature at Beijing University. He is on the editorial board of Critical Asian Studies, co-translator of three volumes of short stories by the Chinese avant-garde woman writer Can Xue, and author of articles on contemporary Chinese and American art, poetry, and culture. He guest-edited a special Denise Levertov issue of Twentieth-Century Literature. Currently he is Associate Chair of the English Department at Hofstra University on Long Island, where he teaches courses in modern literature and directs the Hofstra Summer Writers Conference. He is working on a translation of Zhang Cheng Zhi"s History of the Soul, a memoir-history of Chinese Islam, and writing a monograph on the Chinese poet Bei Dao.
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Landscapes for Reading (2002-03-15)
