Pu Wang is a literary scholar, cultural critic, poet, teacher and translator. Born in Datong in China in 1980, he grew up in Beijing and attended Peking University from 1999 to 2006. At PKU he started his career as a poet and critic. He went to New York University for doctoral studies and received his PhD in comparative literature in 2012. Since 2012, he has been working at Brandeis University, where he is currently Associate Professor of Chinese. His first monograph, titled The Translatability of Revolution: Guo Moruo and Twentieth-Century Chinese Culture(Harvard University Asia Center, 2018) was longlisted for the ICAS Book Prize. His Chinese translation of a critical biography of German-Jewish intellectual Walter Benjamin is under contract and forthcoming. His ongoing projects include a new research project about modern Chinese travel literature, a volume of poetic criticism in Chinese, and a series of essays about the controversies surrounding the global 60s and its legacies. Dr. Wang writes poetry in Chinese. His first book of poetry, Baota ji qita (2015), received high acclaim. His awarded poetry has been translated into German and Dutch.