Ming Xie

Professor; Graduate Faculty; Undergraduate Instructor
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 908, 170 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5R 2M8

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Fields of Study

  • American Literature
  • Aspects of Theory

Areas of Interest

  • Modern poetry and poetics
  • Poetry and philosophy
  • Poetry and translation
  • Comparative hermeneutics
  • Intercultural theory

Biography

Ming Xie received his PhD from Trinity College, University of Cambridge, where he studied modern poetry under J. H. Prynne and Eric Griffiths. His areas of teaching and research interests are: (1) modern poetry, especially in relation to translation, philosophy, and comparative poetics; (2) hermeneutics and critical theory, especially in relation to interculturality, translatability, and cosmopolitanism.

Selected Publications

(Co-ed. with Jonathan Locke Hart) World Poetics, Comparative Poetics. Special Issue of University of Toronto Quarterly 88.2 (2019).

(Ed.) The Agon of Interpretations: Towards a Critical Intercultural Hermeneutics. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.

Conditions of Comparison: Reflections on Comparative Intercultural Inquiry. London and New York: Continuum/Bloomsbury, 2011. (Paperback edition 2013)

Ezra Pound and the Appropriation of Chinese Poetry. New York and London: Garland/Routledge, 1999. (Paperback edition 2014)

"More Virtual than Global." New Global Studies 13.1 (2019): 145-149.

"Meta-Critiquing: Critique, Hermeneutics, Theory." Reframing Critical, Literary, and Cultural Theories: Thought on the Edge. Ed. Nicoletta Pirreddu. New York: Palgrave, 2018. 39-61.

"Dialogic and Dialectic Interfusions." Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 20.2 (2018): 185-202.

"World Poetry, without Baedeker: The Very Idea." Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 44.3 (2017): 501-509.

"What Does the Comparative Do for Theory?" PMLA 128.3 (2013): 675-682.

"Apersonal Singularity: Writing and Reading in the Work of Two ORIGINAL Poets." Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 39.4 (2012): 372-393.

"Reactualising the Unfigurable: Difficulty and Resistance in Translating J. H. Prynne." The Cambridge Quarterly 41.1 (2012): 180-196.

"Harmony in Difference: Tension and Complementarity." Exploring Humanity: Intercultural Perspectives on Humanism. Eds. Mihai I. Spariosu and Jörn Rüsen. Göttingen: V & R Unipress, 2012. 181-196.

"Contexts in Poetic Translation: Iterability, Event, Openness." Perspectives: Studies in Translatology 19.3 (2011): 205-219.

Education

BA, Nanjing University
PhD, University of Cambridge