Tung-Hui Hu presents to the DDI

Tung-Hui Hu is associate professor at the University of Michigan in the department of English Language and Literature. He is the author of three books of poetry, The Book of Motion (2003), Mine (2007), and Greenhouses, Lighthouses (Copper Canyon Press, 2013), a chapbook, On the Kepel Fruit (Albion Books, 2017), and a study of digital culture, A Prehistory of the Cloud (MIT Press, 2015), which was described by The New Yorker as “mesmerizing… absorbing [in] its playful speculations”. His new book, an exploration of burnout, isolation, and disempowerment in the digital underclass, is Digital Lethargy, forthcoming from MIT Press.

His research has been featured on CBS News, BBC Radio 4, Boston Globe, New Scientist, Art in America, and Rhizome.org, among other venues. Hu has received awards from Yaddo, MacDowell, the NEA, the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin, and the San Francisco Foundation, and his poems have appeared in places such as Boston Review, The New Republic, Ploughshares, the Academy of American Poets’s Poem-a-Day, and the anthology Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of Hybrid Literary Genres. He is a member of the editorial board of Afterimage.