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Corey Byrnes is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at Northwestern University, with a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (2013). His research and teaching interests encompass environmental humanities, 19th-21st century Sinophone literature, film, visual culture, animal studies, and landscape spatial studies. Byrnes is a core faculty member and Director of Graduate Studies in Northwestern's Comparative Literary Studies Program, and he co-directs the Kaplan Institute Humanities’ Environmental Humanities Workshop. His book, "Fixing Landscape: Techno-Poetic History of China's Gorges" (Columbia University Press, 2019), received the Weatherhead Book Award from Columbia University in 2018 and was an honorable mention for the American Comparative Literature Association’s 2020 Harry Levin Prize. His ongoing research includes the project “Cultures Threat,” which theorizes the mechanisms of cultural representation and environmental futures related to the perceptions of
Northwestern University • Evanston, IL
Teaching and researching in the field of Asian languages and cultures.
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