Haun Saussy

Caleb Powell Haun Saussy (born February 15, 1960) is an American professor of comparative literature at the University of Chicago.

His editorial responsibilities include serving as co-editor for Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews and Critical Inquiry. He is also a member of the editorial boards for Zhongguo Xueshu/China Scholarship, Comparative Literature, Warring States Papers, Modern Philology, Cross-Currents, and Health and Human Rights, among others. Ed., Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader written by Paul Farmer (University of California Press, 2009) Ed., The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition written by Ernest Fenollosa and Ezra Pound (Fordham University Press, 2008) Ed., with Perry Meisel, Wade Baskin's translation of Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics (Columbia University Press, 2011) Ed., with Rivi Handler-Spitz and Pauline Chen Lee, A Book to Burn and A Book to Keep (Hidden): Selected Writings of Li Zhi (Columbia University Press, 2016)

Family Saussy is the son of Lola Haun Saussy and Tupper Saussy, an American musician and conspiracy theorist. He is married to Olga V. Solovieva, a Yale University Ph.D. (2006) and researcher at Nikolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. He has two children from his first marriage, Liana and Caleb, and three from his second marriage.

Honors President (2009–2011) of the American Comparative Literature Association. Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 2009). Graduate President (2007–2011) of the Alpha of Connecticut Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Scaglione Prize for Comparative Studies from the Modern Language Association.