Martin Svensson Ekström
SENIOR LECTURER
Department of Languages &About Martin Svensson Ekström
Researcher, senior lecturer
- Phone hour: by agreement
- Office hour: Thursdays, by agreement
For the time being, Martin can be reached at msetemp2020@gmail.com
Background
I submitted my dissertation, a study of the Mao recension of the Shijing, in 1996, and spent the following years as a researcher at various universities in the US, Australia, Hong Kong, Taiwan and France. Between 1999 and 2002, I was a ’junior professor’ in Chinese at Stockholm University, and then for several years a reader in Philosophy and Aesthetics at Södertörn University. I began teaching at the University of Gothenburg in 2013..
Teaching
Recorded lectures
“‘Si-militude’, or How the Early Chinese Out-Platoed Plato.” Pennsylvania State University, Comparative Literature Luncheon Lecture. Sept. 26. 2011. Courtesy of C-NET, Pennsylvania. https://play.gu.se/media/Martin+Svensson+Ekstr%C3%B6m+CompLitLec+2011-09-26/0_e2hjvebm
Research
My research deals mainly with early Chinese poetry, poetics and intellectual history but also with early Greek and Roman poetics, and the early history of European sinology. My Origins of Chinese Literary Hermeneutics will be published by SUNY Press in 2021.
I was the editor of the Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (BMFEA) until 2020, and am currently a member of the advisory (or editorial) boards of Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles and Reviews (CLEAR), Oriens Extremus, Culture and Dialogue, and Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies.
Courses
History of Chinese Literature; Modern Chinese Literary Prose, Chinese Intellectual History, Classical Chinese; Chinese History.
The Karlgren Seminar
Together with Fredrik Fällman and Elena Pollacchi I run the Bernhard Karlgren Seminar Series.
Articles
- MSE Sino-methodologies, a draft
- MSE Does the Metaphor Translate?
- MSE Phantasmatic Tomb
- MSE One Lucky Bastard
- MSE Inscripton and re-reading
- MSE Illusion, Lie, and Metaphor
- MSE Comparative Poetics in the Raw
- MSE The Value of Misinterpretation
- MSE Academic Imaginary (Chinese)
- MSE Glossa Sacra
- MSE Translatio
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Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities
(BMFEA)
Martin Svensson Ekström
Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (BMFEA) - 2020-01-01 -
Metapoetic Readings around Ekphrasis and Fu
賦
Martin Svensson Ekström
Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature - 2020-01-01 -
Sino-methodological Remark on the Metaphor of Metaphora and the Limitations of the "Conceptual Metaphor
Theory"
Martin Svensson Ekström
Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - 2020-01-01 -
Sino-methodologies, a
Draft.
Martin Svensson Ekström
Verge: Studies in Global Asias - 2015-01-01 -
The Phantasmatic Tomb, or Methodology and Schmutz in Intercultural
Translation.
Martin Svensson Ekström
Regionality/Mondiality : perspectives on art, aesthetics and globalization : an anthology - 2014-01-01 -
Does the Metaphor
Translate?
Martin Svensson Ekström
Translating China for Western Readers: Reflective, Critical, and Practical Essays / edited by Ming Dong Gu with Rainer Schulte - 2014-01-01