Kent Su
Office: 5-406
Email: suyikuan@shisu.edu.cn
RESEARCH SUMMARY
Transnational modernism; 20th-century British and American literature; poetry; Anglo-American avant-garde aesthetic practices.
COURSES & TEACHING
American Female Writers, Public Speaking, Spoken English, Verbal Communication and Speech
DEGREES
BA 2009-2013 University of British Columbia
MA 2013-2014 University College London,
PhD 2015-2019 University College London
RESEARCH INTERESTS & PROJECTS
Kent Su’s published research engages the intersections of landscape aesthetics and philosophical traditions in Transatlantic Modernism, in articles on avant-garde movements and modernist writers. His current major project theorizes how the ideal concept of transnational landscapes in Ezra Pound’s Cantos resembles the embodiment of Dante Alighieri’s earthly paradise from The Divine Comedy. For Pound, these landscapes represent potential solutions to Eurocentric crises of faith, war, literature and tradition. This project offers new readings of the formal innovations of The Cantos, grounded in avant-garde cultural studies, close textual analysis and original archival research.
SELECTED GRANTS & AWARDS
2020-2022 Chinese Postdoctoral Science Foundation Research Grant
2019-2021 International Postdoctoral Exchange Fellowship Program
