Academic Services

Editor-in-Chief Chung-Wai Literary Quarterly (2023-) 

Editorial Board Member                                                                                                                       

      EurAmerica: A Journal of European and American Studies (2023-) 

    Ex-position (2018-2023) 

    Tamkang Review : A Journal of Cultural and Literary Studies (2018-2023) 

     Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies. (2014-2018) 

Academic Associations

     President, Comparative Literature Association, Taiwan (2022-2024) 

     Board Member, English and American Literature Association of the Republic of China (2019-2023) 

     Board Member, Comparative Literature Association of the Republic of China (2015-) 

     Secretary General, Comparative Literature Association of the Republic of China (2013-2015)

Journal Article Reviewing                                                                                                                       

      Chu Wai Literary Quarterly

      Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies. Chung Wai Literary Quarterly. 

      EurAmerica

      Ex-position       

      Fiction and Drama                                                                                                             

      Journal of Taiwan Literary Studies 

      NTU Studies in Language and Literature  

      Review of English and American Literature 

      Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies 

      Tamkang Review

      Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture

Advising 

Current Advisees 

Kuan-Wei Huang. Ph.D. Candidate.

Chou, Han-Ting. “Contracting American Damsel: National Identity and Cultural Anxiety in Henry James’s Daisy Miller.” MA Thesis. National Taiwan University. 

Past Advisees 

Hsiao-chu Lin. “Rethinking Old Age in J. M. Coetzee’s Slow Man.” MA Thesis. National Taiwan University. 2023. 

Ho-Shiuan Lin. “Strategic Bargainings: Female Runaways in Alice Munro’s Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage.” MA Thesis. National Taiwan University. 2023. 

En-Chi Chiou. ““Beyond the narrow boundary of her chamber wall”: Reverse Spatial Penetration in Lady Audley’s Secret.” MA Thesis. National Taiwan University. 2023. 

Yi-Hwei Lee. “Totalitarianism in The Handmaid’s Tale.” Undergraduate Research Project. National Taiwan University. (Research Grant from the Ministry of Science). 2022. 

Yu-Tzi Hu. “The Art of Unease in Ian McEwan’s Novels: Enduring Love, Atonement and Saturday.” Undergraduate Research Project. National Taiwan University. (Research Grant from the Ministry of Science). 2021. 

Chiu, Yo-Ning. “Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise and Woolf: Stigma of Mental Distress in Feminine Writing.” Undergraduate Research Project. National Taiwan University. (Research Grant from the Ministry of Science). 2021. 

Chao, Wei-chen. “Fear of Death: Are We Living to Die or Dying to Live? Facing Death in Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays with Morrie.” MA Thesis. National Taiwan University. 2020. 

Hou, Min-Jyun. “Memory and Writing: Amnesia as a Theme in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Novels.” MA Thesis. National Taiwan University. 2020. 

Lin, Tzu-min. “Writing Memory: The Process of Healing in Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin.” MA Thesis. National Taiwan University. 2019. 

Wu, Wen-Wei. “Power, Madness, and Social Exclusion in Strange Case of Dr. Jykell and Mr. Hyde.” MA Thesis. National Taiwan University. 2017.                                                                                                 

Teaching

Undergraduate Courses 

Contagion and Ideas 

Victorian Literature 

Twentieth-Century English Literature 

Medicine and Literature 

Healthy Cities and Narratives of Illness 

Fiction 

English Oral Training I 

English Composition II 

Literature, Empire and Medical Fascination (Taipei Medical University) 

Narratives of Disability and Life Writing (Taipei Medical University) 

Contemporary English Novels and Cultures (Taipei Medical University) 

Cloning in Contemporary Literary and Cinema Representations (Taipei Medical University) 

Medicine and Culture: Introduction to Foucault (Taipei Medical University) 

Writing Disease, Disease Writing (Taipei Medical University) 

Victorian Fascinations: Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper (Taipei Medical University) 

Graduate Seminars 

Memory, Aging and Life Writing 

Contagion Theory and Outbreak Narratives 

Studies of Medicine and Literature 

Medicine and Literature 

Contemporary English Novels 

Victorian Novel and Medicine 

Seminar on Illness Writing (Taipei Medical University) 

Medicine and Literature (Taipei Medical University) 

Seminar on Medical Humanities (Taipei Medical University)