Chung-jen Chen 陳重仁

Research Interests

Nineteenth-Century British Novels, Contemporary British Fiction,  Asian American Literature,  Medical Humanities, Aging Studies, Contagion Studies

Profile

Chung-jen Chen is Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan University and currently holds the Excelsior Scholar Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts, NTU (2024–2027). He received his Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from National Taiwan Normal University and was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University (2017–2018).

Professor Chen is an internationally recognized scholar whose work traverses literary studies, medical humanities, and science and technology studies, with particular emphasis on aging, contagion, and the ethics of care in modern and contemporary cultural contexts. He is the author of three monographs and the translator of six books, and has published widely in leading journals and with major academic presses. His scholarship has been honored with prestigious awards, including the Golden Tripod Award, the Award for Innovative Research for Young Scholars, and the Academia Sinica Scholarly Monograph Award.

Beyond his publications, Professor Chen has played a significant role in shaping the field through academic leadership and institutional service. He has served on national research and education committees and was President of the Comparative Literature Association of Taiwan (2022–2024). He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Chung Wai Literary Quarterly.

His recent monograph, The Same Old Story: Aging and Literature (2024), exemplifies his sustained engagement with the cultural and ethical dimensions of aging. His forthcoming projects—including the Chinese translation of Victorian Contagion (NTU Press, 2026) and the edited volume Narratives of Aging, Memory, and the Ethics of Care (Routledge, 2027)—continue to advance interdisciplinary dialogue across literature, medicine, and global humanities.