Brian SkerrattBrian Skerratt is an assistant professor at the Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature and International Cultural Studies at National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan. His research and teaching focus on modern and contemporary poetry in Chinese, compaative poetics, and ecopoetics. Before joining Chung Hsing, he taught at the Centre for China Studies at Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at National Chengchi University and a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy at Academia Sinica. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University with a specialization in modern and contemporary poetry in Chinese. His publications include articles such as "Born Orphans of the Earth: Pastoral Utopia in Contemporary Taiwanese Poetry,""Hsia Yü Buys a Computer" and "Zhu Guangqian and the Rhythm of New Poetry." His translations of Macanese writer Un Sio San's poetry, Naked Picnic, are published by CUHK Press. Read More Read Less