Biography
Saussy is the son of Tupper Saussy, a renowned American composer, musician, author, and artist. Raised in suburban Nashville, Tennessee, he attended Deerfield Academy and then received his B.A. (Greek and Comparative Literature) from Duke University in 1981. He received his M.Phil and Ph.D from Yale University in Comparative Literature. Between undergraduate and graduate schools, he studied linguistics and Chinese in Paris and Taiwan. Saussy was previously Assistant Professor (1990-95) and Associate Professor (1995-97) at University of California, Los Angeles. He was Associate Professor, Full Professor, and chairman of the comparative literature department at Stanford University, prior to joining the Yale faculty in 2004.
He is the current Graduate President of the Alpha of Connecticut Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.
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