Under the Sign of the I Ching

Paschalis Nikolaou is Associate Professor in Literary Translation at the Ionian University, Greece. He is author of the monograph 'The Return of Pytheas: Scenes from British and Greek Poetry in Dialogue' (2017) and of essays published in, among others: 'Translation and Creativity: Perspectives on Creative Writing and Translation Studies' (2006); 'Translating and Interpreting Conflict' (2007); and 'Translating the Literatures of Small European Nations' (2020). He has edited '12 Greek Poems After Cavafy' (2015) and 'Encounters in Greek and Irish Literature: Creativity, Translations and Critical Perspectives' (2020), guest edited 'Synthesis 12' ('Recomposed: Anglophone Presences of Classical Literature' (2019), and co-edited 'Translating Selves: Experience and Identity Between Languages and Literatures' (2008) and 'Richard Berengarten: A Portrait in Inter-Views' (2017). He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar for 2021 at the Department of Classics of The Ohio State University. His study, 'Creative Classical Translation' is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in 2023.


Richard J. Smith is currently George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities emeritus, a Baker Institute Scholar, and a Research Professor at the Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Center for Asian Studies, University of Texas, Austin, and a member of several professional advisory boards. A specialist in modern Chinese history and traditional Chinese culture, Smith also has strong interests in transnational, global and comparative studies. He has published nine single-authored books, the most recent of which is 'The Qing Dynasty and Traditional Chinese Culture' (2015). He has also co-edited or co-authored eight volumes, the most recent of which are 'Reexamining the Sinosphere: Cultural Transmissions and Transformations in East Asia' (2020) and 'Rethinking the Sinosphere: Poetics, Aesthetics, and Identity Formation' (2020).