Professor of Applied Linguistics

School of Law

Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan)

Glenn Stockwell (PhD, University of Queensland) is Professor at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. He teaches several applied linguistics subjects at both the undergraduate and postgraduate level, including second language acquisition, second language teaching methodology, and computer-assisted language learning. His research interests include mobile learning, motivation and technology, and the role of technology in the language learning process. He is co-author of CALL Dimensions (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006) with Mike Levy, editor of Computer-Assisted Language Learning: Diversity in Research and Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2012), and has published numerous book chapters and articles in several international journals in the field of CALL. He is Editor-in-Chief of The JALT CALL Journal, Associate Editor of Computer Assisted Language Learning and Language Learning & Technology, and is on the editorial boards of ReCALL Journal and the CALICO Journal. He has been invited to speak at several international conferences around the world on the topic of technology and second language teaching and learning.

Professor of English

Faculty of Philosophy and Letters

National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico City, The United Mexican States)

Mario Murgia (Mexico City, 1973) is a poet, translator, and full professor of English at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). His interests are thematically varied and have often revolved around the relationship between literature and other artistic expressions, such as music and the performing arts. His main area of academic research is Anglophone and Hispanophone drama and poetry from the twentieth century and the Early Modern period, with a particular emphasis on English and (Colonial) Spanish poetry produced in the 16th and 17th centuries.

His recent publications include the books Lines writ in Water. The Influence of Paradise Lost on Byron, Keats and Shelley (UNAM, 2017), Singularly Remote. Essays on Poetries (MadHat Press, 2018), May the World Forgive. An Anthology of Poetry (AliosVentos, 2019), and in translation, Do I know you? The Poetry of Ben Mazer (UNAM, 2019). He has translated into Spanish the work of poets such as John Milton, Edgar Allan Poe, Adrienne Rich, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Eavan Boland, Alastair Reid, and James Joyce, among many others. Murgia is co-editor, with Angelica Duran, of the volume Global Milton and Visual Art (Lexington Books, 2021). Forthcoming is The Green Leaf of Language. Contemporary Anglo-Irish Poetry, an e-volume which he has compiled and edited for UNAM’s School of Philosophy and Literature.

Professor

Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

National Taiwan University (Taipei, Taiwan)

Chung-jen Chen is a professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan University, Taiwan. He holds a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from National Taiwan Normal University (2009). He was a visiting scholar in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC) at Harvard University (2017-18). He was the recipient of the Award for Innovative Research for Young Scholars from the Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship (2015) and the Golden Tripod Award of Taiwan (2014) for his book in Mandarin, Empire, Medicine and 19th-Century English Literature. His research interests include nineteenth-century British novels, contemporary British fiction, and interdisciplinary studies in medicine and literature.

Associate Professor

Department of Applied Foreign Languages

Shih Chien University (Taipei, Taiwan)

Li-Te Li is an associate professor in the Department of Applied Foreign Languages at Shih Chien University in Taipei, Taiwan. She has been teaching English writing for about 30 years and frequently supervised undergraduate research projects. She was a visiting scholar in the Department of English at Arizona State University (2013) and the recipient of the Award for Outstanding Teaching Performance from Shih Chien University (2009, 2015, 2021). Her research interests are the reading-writing connection, undergraduate research experiences, whole language philosophy, and critical pedagogy. She is interested in sharing her research findings at local and international conferences.