Elizabeth Weber Receives NEA Literature Translation Fellowship
Elizabeth Weber, an assistant professor of instruction in Chinese and a research assistant professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Culture, is one of 22 translators selected by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) as a recipient of the 2025 Literature Translation Fellowship.
The fellowship will support her ongoing work translating the late Qing exposé novel Flower in a Sea of Retribution (Niehai hua) by Jin Congcen (1874–1947) and Zeng Pu (1872–1935) from Chinese into English. Canonized as one of the four great works of social critique from that period, Flower in a Sea of Retribution is a work of great literary significance. While the novelhas previously been translated into English in excerpted form, this award from the NEA will support Weber’s efforts to make it available in English in its entirety for the first time.