Associate Professor of English Language and Literature; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
About
Tung-Hui Hu is the author of three books of poetry, The Book of Motion (2003), Mine (2007), and Greenhouses, Lighthouses (Copper Canyon Press, 2013), as well as a study of digital culture, A Prehistory of the Cloud (MIT Press, 2015), which was described by The New Yorker as "mesmerizing... absorbing [in] its playful speculations". His research has been featured on CBS News, BBC Radio 4, Rhizome.org, Boston Globe, and New Scientist, among other venues. Hu has received awards from Yaddo, MacDowell Colony, the NEA, the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin, and the San Francisco Foundation, and his poems have appeared in places such as Boston Review, The New Republic, Ploughshares, the Academy of American Poets's Poem-a-Day, and the anthology Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of Hybrid Literary Genres. He is working on a new book on lethargy.
