
Lea Pao
Lea Pao's research interests include German and Austrian poetry, the history of information and its theories, and graphic narrative theory. Her current book project explores the ways in which ideas about information鈥攁nd the history of twentieth-century information theory鈥攃an shape our thinking about poetry鈥檚 social, cultural, and linguistic work, and vice versa.
She is the translator of Q. G. Li鈥檚 Tian Shu into German, as Buch des Himmels (Letter P Verlag, 2012), and the co-translator of Peter Janich鈥檚 What is Information? (University of Minnesota Press, 2018). She is editing, with a team of scholars associated with Penn State's Center for Humanities and Information, two books on the relation between information, literature, and society: Information: A Reader, and Information: Keywords (both forthcoming from Columbia University Press).
At 黑料百科, she teaches courses on German literature, poetry, and poetics.
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- German Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
- Literary and Cultural Theory
- Literary Criticism (history of criticism, theory of literature)
- Narratology
- Poetry and Poetics