Sabina Knight

Bio: Sabina Knight (桑稟華) is author of Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction (2012, translated into four languages) and The Heart of Time: Moral Agency in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction (Harvard, 2006). She has also published in The National Interest, World Literature Today, The Los Angeles Review of Books,《翻译家的对话》[Translators’ Dialogues], Literature and Medicine, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, and other journals of literature, Chinese studies, and the medical humanities.

Knight is Professor Emerita of Chinese and World Literatures at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she taught from 1998 to 2024. She is also a translator, a speaker on Chinese-English literary and cultural translation, and a fellow in the Public Intellectuals Program of the National Committee on US-China Relations. She was a 2001-02 An Wang Fellow at the Fairbank Center. Her current projects consider the politics of translation, contemporary Chinese short stories, non-Han literatures, and media of dissent.

Research interests: Contemporary Chinese fiction and poetry, media of dissent, comparative literature and philosophy