Liesl YamaguchiLiesl Yamaguchi, Assistant Professor of French at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, specializes in poetics, linguistics, translation, and literary theory. Her recent publications have appeared in New Literary History, Common Knowedge, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, French Studies, and Comparative Literature, garnering the Ralph Cohen Prize (NLH) and the Vivien Law Prize (Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas). Her translation of Väinö Linna's Unknown Soldiers was the first work of Finnish literature to appear with Penguin Classics (2015); her first monograph The Proper Tone: On the Color of Vowels is forthcoming. Read More Read Less