Author Archives: Jacob Edmond

About Jacob Edmond

Jacob Edmond is associate professor in English at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He is the author of Make It the Same: Poetry in the Age of Global Media (Columbia University Press, 2019), A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature (Fordham University Press, 2012), and of numerous essays, which have appeared in journals such as Comparative Literature, Contemporary Literature, Poetics Today, Slavic Review, and The China Quarterly.

Make It the Same released

Posted on July 31, 2019 by Jacob Edmond

It’s official: Make It the Same: Poetry in the Age of Global Media is in the world. It is available now from Columbia UP (use the code CUP30 for a 30% discount), Amazon, and other booksellers. The book has been … Continue reading →

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From Strangeness to Sameness

Posted on February 5, 2019 by Jacob Edmond

I have created a new website and blog for my new book Make It the Same: Poetry in the Age of Global Media, which is due out in June from Columbia University Press. The new site contains details of the … Continue reading →

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Make It the Same: Poetry in the Age of Global Media

Posted on January 1, 2019 by Jacob Edmond

I’m delighted to announce that my new book, Make It the Same: Poetry in the Age of Global Media, is due out from Columbia University Press in June of this year. A brief blurb appears below. For further details, click … Continue reading →

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Russian lessons for conceptual writing

Posted on May 30, 2018 by Jacob Edmond

I’m delighted to see that Postscript: Writing after Conceptual Art, edited by Andrea Andersson, has just been published by the University of Toronto Press. I’ve contributed a chapter (available here through JSTOR) in which I attempt to give anglophone conceptual … Continue reading →

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The Elephant in the Room: Literary Theory in World Literature

Posted on May 25, 2018 by Jacob Edmond

My article “The Elephant in the Room: Literary Theory in World Literature” has just been published online here. It will appear soon in print as part of a special issue of Orbis Litterarum entitled “Literary Studies across Cultures: A Chinese-European … Continue reading →

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The Frightening Translatability of Censorship

Posted on December 13, 2017 by Jacob Edmond

I’ve just published a brief essay on censorship inside and outside China on the Critical Inquiry blog, “In the Moment.” Poetry and Translation in Times of Censorship; or, What Cambridge University Press and the Chinese Government Have in Common reflects on … Continue reading →

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The Indiscipline of Comparison

Posted on February 20, 2017 by Jacob Edmond

I’m delighted to announce the publication of “The Indiscipline of Comparison,” a special issue of Comparative Literature Studies. Many thanks to the contributors, David Damrosch, Rita Felski, Haun Saussy, Shu-mei Shih, Karen Thornber, and Zhang Longxi. My heartfelt thanks also … Continue reading →

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The Uses of Postmodernism

Posted on December 22, 2016 by Jacob Edmond

Postmodernism might seem dreadfully passé, but my new essay and the special issue of which it is a part argue that it still has its uses. My article on “The Uses of Postmodernism” is online here, and below I reproduce … Continue reading →

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The Copy in Global Modernism

Posted on December 19, 2016 by Jacob Edmond

Is “make it the same”––and not “make it new”––the true catchphrase of modernism? So I argue in my contribution to A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism, just out from Columbia University Press. Although I’m still awaiting a hardcopy, I’ve been … Continue reading →

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Lucas Klein on A Common Strangeness and Cosima Bruno’s Between the Lines

Posted on October 2, 2016 by Jacob Edmond

I am delighted to see that Lucas Klein’s review essay, “Addressed and Redressed: World Literature and Reading Contemporary Poetry in Translation,” has just been published in Comparative Literature Studies. Klein’s essay discusses A Common Strangeness alongside Cosima Bruno’s wonderfully insightful … Continue reading →

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