Timothy Billings | Du Fu in the Multiverse: Parallel Lines, Parallel Poems, and the Tang Lunar Imaginary

Timothy Billings

Professor of English and Member of Comparative Literature Program

Middlebury College

Timothy Billings is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Middlebury College. He holds an MFA in poetry and Ph.D. in English from Cornell, and an M.A. in Classical Sinology from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). He is the editor, translator, and annotator of three bilingual critical editions: Victor Segalen’s 1914 Stèles / 古今碑綠, with Christopher Bush (Wesleyan UP, 2007), awarded the Modern Language Association Scaglione Prize for literary translation; Matteo Ricci’s 1595 Jiaoyou lun 交友論On Friendship: One Hundred Maxims for a Chinese Prince (Columbia UP, 2009); and Ezra Pound’s 1915 Cathay (Fordham UP, 2020), winner of the Ezra Pound Society book award, runner up for the Poetry Foundation’s Pegasus Prize for Poetry Criticism, and shortlisted for the Modernist Studies Association book award. His newest book is Twenty-Nine Goodbyes: An Introduction to Chinese Poetry (Fordham UP, 2024).