Contemporary U.S. women of color literature
Chicana feminism
Anzaldúan studies
Decolonial thought
Theorization of healing
2019/11/01-2022/10/31 ”Knowledge in Translation: When Anzaldúan Studies Meets Chinese Philosophy (1/4), (2/4), (3/4)” MOST Young Scholar Fellowship (Einstein Program).
2020/1/1-2020/12/31 "Light in the Dark: An Epistemology of Hope in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian." NTNU New Faculty Research Grant.
2017/08-2020/07 MOST Special Outstanding Talent Award (科技部延攬特殊優秀人才).
Tai, (Brena) Yu-Chen Tai. “Hopeful Reading: Rethinking Resistance in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian.” College Literature, vol. 48, no. 4, Fall 2021, pp. 627-52. (A&HCI) https://muse.jhu.edu/article/835676
Tai, (Brena) Yu-Chen Tai. “From Otherness to Otherwise: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Decolonial Aesthetics.” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, vol. 47, no. 2, 2021, pp. 149-80, doi:10.6240/concentric.lit.202109_47(2).0007. (A&HCI) http://www.concentric-literature.url.tw/issues/Shakespeare%20and%20Translation/7-Tai.pdf.
Tai, (Brena) Yu-Chen. “Healing Ecology in Aurora Levins Morales’s Writings on Environmental Illness.” Biopolitics, Necropolitics, Cosmopolitics, special issue of Journal of Gender Studies, vol. 29, no. 1, 2020, pp. 21-33. Online advance, Dec. 2019, doi: 10.1080/09589236.2019.1692302. (SSCI). https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/IUKPU9XQKTSUA5QBHVIR/full?target=10.1080/09589236.2019.1692302
Tai, (Brena) Yu-Chen. "Can-Go Girls: (Re)Making Neoliberal Ideal Girl Subjects through Round-the-World Travel." Women's Studies: An Inter-disciplinary Journal, vol. 49, no 6, 2020, pp. 596-615. Online advance, July 2020, doi: 10.1080/00497878.2020.1785882. (A&HCI). https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4N9QEUNPEZYXVDTVEQHC/full?target=10.1080/00497878.2020.1785882
Tai, (Brena) Yu-Chen. “Atrocity, Alterity, Altar: A Theatrical Space of Healing in Humberto Robles’s ‘Women of Sand.’” Our Female Future, special issue of Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, vol. 45, no. 2, September 2019, pp. 83-111. (A&HCI). http://www.concentric-literature.url.tw/issue_detail.php?issue_title=Our%20Female%20Future
Tai, (Brena) Yu-Chen Tai. "The Ripple Imagery as a Decolonial Self: Exploring Multiplicity in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée." Speaking Face to Face: The Visionary Philosophy of María Lugones, edited by Pedro J. DiPietro, Jennifer Mcweeny, and Shireen Roshanravan, SUNY Press, 2019, pp. 65-82.