Check out this Foundry interview, in which Rita Raley and Fabian Offert discuss the centrality of the humanities to machine learning and AI studies through the lens of their UCHRI-funded research. @UCSantaBarbara UCSB Humanities and Fine Arts UCSB English UCSB IHC uchri.org/foundry/critic…

New issue alert! UC Santa Barbara Magazine is back with perspectives on our cultural fascination with weather, the current state of democracy, and more. Plus, highlights from around campus and our global Gaucho community. Catch the online edition at magazine.ucsb.edu.

“Coherence is dangerous.” Liveright Books UCSB English magazine.ucsb.edu/fall-winter-20…

Thrilled to be nominated, the third time, for the NBCC award! Liveright Books UCSB English

Beyond thrilled for Yunte Huang and his incredible 3/3 NBCC nominations for his Rendezvous with America trilogy: CHARLIE CHAN, INSEPARABLE, and now DAUGHTER OF THE DRAGON.

Congratulations to UCSB English professor Yunte Huang (Yunte Huang), recognized for his biography of the 20th-century film star Anna May Wong, "Daughter of the Dragon." 📕

In June, Jerome Rothenberg & I read at Gagosian Gallery LA, at Kiefer’s show, Re: the Khurbn (Yiddish -- catastrophe). Posted for International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The video is about 45 minutes, with a conversation at end..gagosian.com/quarterly/

Amen. I have a Chinese PhD student who got a job in the middle of nowhere USA, and told her Weee! would be happiest to have a diehard customer :)

A new memoir by Manjula Martin exposes the ways climate change will reach into the most personal recesses in our life, writes Casey Schwartz. theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

The finalists for the 93rd Annual #CaliforniaBookAwards are out! Nonfiction finalists Real Peter Gleick💧 Lisa M. Hamilton Yunte Huang Huang, Fae Myenne Ng & Rosanna Xia See full list: commonwealthclub.org/events/califor…

She’s the face of a 2022 United States Mint quarter & her own Barbie in the ‘Inspiring Women’ series — but who is Anna May Wong, and what made her an icon? Yunte Huang tells Wong’s story in the last book of his Asian American icons trilogy, ‘Daughter of the Dragon.’ ow.ly/l7N750RzY1x

May 24: Yunte Huang and I will be at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures this Friday in conversation about his newest book "Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History." Ticket includes general admission to the museum. academymuseum.org/en/programs/de…

CONGRATULATIONS to 93rd California Book Awards winners: GOLD: Justin Torres, Ruth Madievsky, Fae Myenne Ng, Rosanna Xia, Joan Schoettler, Dashka Slater, Mary-Alice Daniel, Roberson Taj Frazier SILVER: Kathryn Ma, Yunte Huang Huang, & Elana K. Arnold commonwealthclub.org/events/califor…

Today’s New York Times headline, on the eve of the paperback edition release of Daughter of the Dragon

Born in Los Angeles in 1905, actress Anna May Wong was the daughter of a laundryman who became a global celebrity. Yunte Huang offers a moving portrait of a screen siren who is “far more complicated than her legendary celluloid image would suggest”. W. W. Norton & Company theguardian.com/books/ng-inter…

I think I’ve asked this question before: How is it that judges for fiction in translation consistently select compelling titles but judges for USA fiction consistently do not?

Fantastically said👍

If James Joyce were alive today, he would have a very hard time getting published in the US