Faculty

Faculty

Zhou Hau Liew
專任
Assistant Professor
zhliew@email.nchu.edu.tw
04-22840313 #1024

簡介

    Zhou Hau Liew is Assistant Professor of Transcultural Studies at National Chung Hsing University (NCHU). He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania. He was a Mellon postdoctoral fellow at the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, and a recipient of the Taiwan Fellowship at National Taiwan University.
    His current book project theorizes Chinese-Malaysian cultural productions that remap the global Cold War from an ecological perspective. He is also working on a second project that reimagines Southeast Asia through visual and literary histories of resource extraction. His essays have appeared in English Language Notes, Critical Asian Studies, PR&TA, and Asia in the Old and New Cold Wars, and his non-fiction in The Margins by Asian American Writers’ Workshop.

榮譽獎項 Honors and Awards

(2022) Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-Lab), Creation and Research Support Grant, Taiwan.
(2021) Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan Fellowship, Taiwan.
(2019) Asia Culture Center, Residency Fellowship, South Korea.
(2018) Harvard University, Mahindra Humanities Center, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship.
(2017) British Council, Film Archive and Music Fund, United Kingdom.

學經歷Education and Academic Appointments

Academic Appointments
(2021) Taiwan Fellowship Scholar, Center for Taiwan Studies, National Taiwan University.
(2018-2019) Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University.

Education
(2017) Ph.D., Comparative Literature and Literary Theory. University of Pennsylvania.
(2010) A.B. (cum laude), Philosophy. Princeton University.
 

研究領域 Areas of Specialization

Comparative literature, environmental humanities, Cold War in Asia, visual studies, postcolonial and diaspora studies

近期著作 Publications

  1. Journal Articles
(2024) “Sinophone Geopolitics and Postcolonial Materiality in Cold War Borneo: An Ecological Reading of Chang Kuei-Hsing’s Elephant Herd.” English Language Notes special issue, “Expanding Black and Indigenous Ecologies.” 62 (1): 81-96.
(2021) “A Story of Permatang Tinggi.” Praxis, Research and Tangential Activities (PR&TA), issue 1: https://www.pratajournal.com/a-story-of-permatang-tinggi
(2020) “Ecological Narratives of Forced Resettlement in Cold War Malaya.” Critical Asian Studies, vol. 52, no. 2: 286-303.
  1. Book Chapters
(2023) “Ecology as a Cold-War Scale: Lau Kek Huat’s Absent Without Leave and Ha Jin’s War Trash.” Asia in the Old and New Cold Wars: Ideologies, Narratives and Lived Experiences: 55-77. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.
  1. Non-fiction Writing
(2023) “Dispossession.” Transpacific Literary Project, The Margins by Asian American Writers’ Workshop: https://aaww.org/rainforest-speaks-dispossession/
(2022) “Keelung Diaries.” Nusantara Archive: https://www.heath.tw/nml-podcast/a-field-guide-to-getting-lost-in-the-southern-universe-keelung-dairies/
 

教學課程 Courses Taught

Introduction to Transcultural Studies
Seminar on Ecocinema
Contemporary Culture and Globalization
World Literature and Theories of the World
Seminar on Sinophone Cinema
Academic Writing