Lucas Rambo Bender

Lucas Rambo Bender studies medieval Chinese literature and thought. He has published one monograph on the great Tang-dynasty poet Du Fu (712–770), has a second forthcoming on the large medieval literature on imperial frontiers, and is currently writing a third on the pluralism of medieval Chinese culture. He is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Humanities at Yale University, where he currently leads the "Six Global Perspectives" program of cross-cultural introductory humanities seminars.