Fellow 2024/2025Heather H. Yeung
Heather H. Yeung is Reader in Literature (poetry and poetics), head of the research priority ‘Modes of Life’ (Cultural and Creative Connections) at the University of Dundee, and Chair for Scholarships and Training (Scottish and English Literature) for the Scottish Graduate School. Theorist, poet, and artist, her research is in poetry and poetics, and concerns, broadly, the questions which arise when one attends to break(s) in and with form, both materially and in culturally (un)inscribed signification. Temporally, this research concerns for the most part the poetics of High and Late modernisms, their colonial effects and its post-/ anti-/ neo-/ and de-/colonial presences, presents and aftermaths. A research slogan might be ‘mind the gaps!’. She is the author of the monographs Spatial Engagement with Poetry (2015), On Literary Plasticity (2020), and Modern Stone (forthcoming), and the living archive of her poetic and artist book works is held in the Scottish Poetry Library with a subsidiary collection in the National Library of Scotland Fine Bindings Collections. Her research at Heidelberg comprises a study of the innovative formal and material aspects of a transcultural poetics of ‘real’ and speculative apocalypse and post-apocalypse (1910-2010).