Faculty

Director

Associate Professor

Kuo-wei Chen


Education:Ph.D. in Chinese Literature, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan

Research Areas:Contemporary and Modern Taiwan Literature Popular Literature Mystery Novel Cultural Studies

Department:Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature ans Transnational Cultural Studies


Full-time Faculty

Assistant Professor

Zhou Hau Liew


Education:Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, University of Pennsylvania

Research Areas:Sinophone and Anglophone Literature and Film, Cold War in Asia, Environmental Humanities, Migration Studies, Critical Theory

Department:International PhD Program in Taiwan and Transcultural Studies


Associate Professor

Wah Guan Lim


Education:Ph.D. in Asian Literature, Religion, and Culture, Cornell University

Research Areas:Chinese-language theatre, cinema, and literature

Department:International PhD Program in Taiwan and Transcultural Studies


Affiliated Faculty

Professor

Hannes Bergthaller


Education:Ph.D. in American Literature, Universität Bonn, Germany

Research Areas:Literary Criticism, Introduction to Ecocriticism, Literature and Religion in US Culture, English Composition

Department:Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University


Professor

Shu-ching Chen


Education:Ph.D. in Literatures in English, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Research Areas:Post-colonial Literature Ethnic Minority Literature Asian English Literature Third World Feminist Literary Criticism

Department:Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures


Distinguished Professor

Huei-chu Chu


Education:Ph.D. in Human Information, Nagoya University, Japan

Research Areas:Taiwan Literature in Japanese Occupied Period Okinawa Literature East Asian Colonial and Postcolonial Literature

Department:Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature and Transnational Cultural Studies


Jointly Appointed Associate Professor / Department of History

Chih-Lung Lin


Education:Ph. D. University of Manchester, UK.

Research Areas:Business History, History of the British Commonwealth

Department:Transcultural Program & Department of History


Associate Professor

Chia-li Kao


Education:Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.

Research Areas:Comparative Literature Pre-WWII Taiwan and Japanese Literature Third World Literature East Asian Studies Post-colonial Literature

Department:Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature and Transnational Cultural Studies


Assistant Professor

Brian Skerratt


Education:Ph.D., EastAsian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Research Areas:modern and contemporary poetry in Chinese comparative poetics ecopoetics

Department:Institute of Taiwan Literature and Transnational Cultural Studies


Associate Professor

Hui-Yun Sung


Education:Ph.D. in Information Science. Loughborough University, UK.

Research Areas:Theories, models and studies of community engagement in public libraries.

Department:Graduate Institute of Library & Information Science


Associate Professor

Jiann-guang Lin


Education:Ph.D. in English Literature, State University of New York at Stony Brook

Research Areas:Taiwan Film Studies Science Fiction

Department:Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures


Associate Professor

Dominique Liao


Education:PhD for Cultural Research, Lancaster University, UK

Research Areas:Gangster film Avant-garde theatre Cultural materialism Gender studies Critical event studies

Department:Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature and Transnational Cultural Studies


Distinguished Professor

Kuei-fen Chiu


Education:Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A.

Research Areas:Taiwan Literary Studies Cultural Studies Taiwan Documentary Film Studies Comparative Literature

Department:Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature and Transnational Cultural Studies