Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Areas of Interest
- Premodern Chinese literature
- Classical Chinese language
- Translation
- Narrative and poetry
Biography
Graham Sanders focuses in his work on narrative depictions of the composition, performance and reception of poetry in premodern China, and he is an active translator of premodern Chinese literature. His publications include a chapter in Idle Talk: Gossip and Anecdote in Traditional China (2013), an annotated translation of Shen Fu’s Six Records of a Life Adrift (2011), and a book on poetic performance, Words Well Put: Visions of Poetic Competence in the Chinese Tradition (2006). His annotated, bilingual translation of two important collections of Tang poetry anecdotes is forthcoming as a volume in De Gruyter’s Library of Chinese Humanities. He is now working on a new, abridged translation of the Ming dynasty novel Shuihu zhuan, titled Bandits of the Fen.
A full list of Professor Sanders's presentations is also available.
Education
Awards
- 2021 SSHRC Insight Grant Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
- 2011 SSHRC Research Completion Award The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
- 2005 SSHRC Standard Research Grant Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
- 2000 SSHRC Assistance for New Researchers Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
- 1996 Dean’s Excellence Award University of Toronto
- 1996 Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Publications
- Tang Dynasty Anecdotes on Poetry: “Yunxi youyi” and “Benshi shi” (De Gruyter : 2021)
- “Shen Fu and Six Records of a Life Adrift (Fusheng liuji)" (Wiley : 2019)
- “Revisiting Shen Fu’s Six Records of a Life Adrift (Fusheng liuji)” (Karolinium Press : 2017)
- “Premodern Chinese Literature” (Wiley : 2016)
- “A New Note on Shishuo xinyu” (Early Medieval China : 2014)
- “I Read They Said He Sang What He Wrote: Orality, Writing and Gossip in Tang Poetry Anecdotes” (Global, Area, and International Archive (University of California Press) : 2013)
- Entry for “Premodern Chinese Poetry” (EBSCO Publishing : 2012)
- Entry for “Yuefu” (Music Bureau Poetry) (Princeton University Press : 2012)
- Six Records of a Life Adrift by Shen Fu (Translated, with Introduction and Notes, by Graham Sanders) (Hackett Publishing Company : 2011)
- “Out With It! Torture and the Aesthetics of Narrative in Chinese Vernacular Stories” (Universitas: Philosophy and Culture : 2010)
- Words Well Put: Visions of Poetic Competence in the Chinese Tradition (Harvard University Asia Center : 2006)
- “Chinese Theory and Criticism: Pre-Modern Theories of Fiction and Drama” ( Johns Hopkins University Press : 2005)
- The Appropriation of Cultural Capital: China's May Fourth Project (Harvard University Asia Center : 2002)