Chung-jen Chen
Professor
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures,
National Taiwan University
1 Sec 4 Roosevelt Road, Taipei City, Taiwan 10617
Research Interests
Nineteenth-Century British Novels, Contemporary British Fiction, Asian American Literature, Medical Humanities
Profile
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 (2010). He was a visiting scholar in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC) at Harvard University (2017-18). He published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and renowned book publishers. He is by far the author of 3 monographs, translator of 6 books, and the first author of dozens of journal articles and book chapters. 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) and Scholarly Monograph Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica (2021). He served as the board member and reviewer of multiple research and education committees at the level of the Ministry of Education and National Science and Technology Council and the President of the Comparative Literature Association of Republic of China, Taiwan (CLAROC) (2022-24). He was the recipient of multiple awards for teaching excellence and innovation at the college and university levels. His research interests include nineteenth-century British novels, contemporary British fiction, Asian American Literature and interdisciplinary studies in medicine and literature. He currently serves as and the editor-in-general of Chung Wai Literary Quarterly (2023-). His latest book on aging and literature entitled The Same Old Story was published in 2024.
老樣子：從神話史詩到現代小說，跟著西方經典作品思考「老化」這件事
三民書局 San Min Book 2023.
From mythological epics to modern novels, how is "aging" narrated and contemplated in Western classic works? What images of "old" can we observe from them? Aging is a life process, an ultimate question of existence, and an immortal theme in the writings of literature, history, and philosophy.
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