Heather H. Yeung

Heather H. Yeung is a Scottish-Hongkongese theorist, poet, artist book maker, and translator currently serving as Reader in Literature (poetry and poetics) at the University of Dundee, with prior leadership in literature scholarships at the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities.

Educational background includes a PhD from the University of Durham.

Her research interrogates breaks in poetic form across material, affective, and culturally (un)inscribed dimensions, spanning Englishes, Frenches, and Germans while confronting colonial/imperialistic legacies. Core interests include spatial engagement with poetry, literary plasticity, multilingual signification, and the poetology of modern apocalyptic frameworks.

Scientific recognition:

• Prize-winning editor of anthology 'there were our own / there were the others' (2014)

Her artistic practice encompasses translated poetic works (Greek, Turkish, German) and physical artist books archived in the Scottish Poetry Library (digitized 2018) and National Library of Scotland Fine Bindings Collections.