CHENGRU HE portrait
  • Graduate Teaching Assist (TA), English

Research Summary

My research interests include poetry, poetics, documentary poetics, hybrid writing, literary translation, experimental translation, multilingualism, multimodal writing, cultural criticism, Modernism, Avant-Garde, literature and photography, literature and film, Chinese language and literature.

Education

  • PhD candidate, English Literature and Creative Writing | Poetry, University of Utah
  • MFA , Creative Writing , University of Alabama
  • MA, Sociology, University of Birmingham
  • BA, Journalism, Shanghai University

Biography

Chengru He is the author of a hybrid collection I Would Vanish into Its Stronger Existence (Wet Cement Press, forthcoming 2024) and a book of poetry M O N (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, forthcoming 2025); the translator of two books of translation in Chinese. Her writing, translation, and multi-media work appear or are forthcoming in Alchemy Journal of TranslationAncient Exchange, Defunct, Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, Poet Lore, Speculative Nonfiction, Tint JournalUnlikely StoriesWatershed Review, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2023 AWP Intro Journal Award.