He has his Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University. His primary teaching and research area is classical Chinese poetry and poetics, with a special interest in the emotionality and materiality of reading and writing in the transformational period from the Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty. He is the author of Ten Thousand Scrolls: Reading and Writing in the Poetics of Huang Tingjian and the Late Northern Song, and is currently working on his second book, tentatively titled Presence: Nature and the Realistic Transformation of Classical Poetry in Middle Period China. ygwang@uoregon.edu