Research

Publications

Book publications

1. The Same Old Story: The Idea of Aging From Epics to Modern Novels in Western Classics. 《老樣⼦：從神話史詩 到現代⼩說，跟著⻄⽅經典作品思考「老化」這件事》Published by Sanmin Book, Nov 2023. (Mandarin) 

2. Victorian Contagion: Risk and Social Control in the Victorian Literary Imagination. London and New York: Routledge, 2020. 

3. Empire, Medicine and 19th Century Literature.《⽂學、帝國與醫學想像》Published by Bookman, Nov 2013. (Mandarin) 

 Book Chapters

1. “Writing Dementia: The Condition and Dilemma of Contemporary Dementia Writings in Taiwan.” Public Humanities and the Case of Taiwan: Reflections and Practices. Taipei: National Taiwan University Press. Dec 2023: 307-45.〈失憶記事：臺灣當代失憶書寫的情境 與困境〉《公共⼈⽂學的反思與實踐》 (Mandarin) (ISBN: 978-986-350-784-0) 

2. “Studies of Nineteenth-Century English Literature in Taiwan.” Regarding Literary Legacies: Researches on English and American Literature in Taiwan. Taipei: Bookman. Dec 2023: 151-184.〈⼗九世紀英國⽂學研究在台灣（2001-2022): 回顧與展望〉《⽂學薪傳：臺灣 的英美⽂學研究2001-2022》 (Mandarin) (ISBN: 978-626-7193-52-5) 

3. "East End Prostitution and the Fear of Contagion: On Bodily Consciousness of the Ripper Case.” Bodies in the Streets: The Somaesthetics of City Life. Leiden and Boston: Brill. Nov, 2019: 195-219. (ISBN: 978-90-04-41113-5).

4. “‘The Best Thing America Gave Me’: Diasporic Memory and Creative Nostalgia in A Good Fall.” A Feast of Splendor: Chinese American Literary Studies in Taiwan. Ed. Te-shing Shan. Taipei: Bookman. 2018: 367-414. (Mandarin)(ISBN: 978-957-445-786-1)

5. “‘The Best Thing America Gave Me’: Diasporic Memory and Creative Nostalgia in A Good Fall.” The Other and Asian American Literature. Ed. Te-shing Shan. Taipei: Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica. 2015: 75-121. (Mandarin)(ISBN: 978-986-04-6158-9)

6. 〈カズオ‧イシグロの流動的世界観における戦争の記憶とアイデ ンティティについて〉。. 《リーラー「遊」： 戦後７０年と宗教》(ISBN: 978- 4-89259-771-8). 京都，日本: 文理閣. Dec, 2015: 457-87. 3. (Article in English and Translation in Japanese)

Journal Articles

1. “Mapping transnationality and flexible citizenship in Ha Jin’s The Boat Rocker.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 20.4 (2019): 526-540. (A&HCI) 

2. "A portal to transnational communication: problematizing identity politics in Ha Jin’s A Map of Betrayal.” Textual Practice (April 2019)(A&HCI)

3. “Love in the Time of Illness: Writing of Pain and Metaphor of Illness in Saturday.” Review of English and American Literature (2018): 65-102. (THCI Core)(Mandarin)

4. “Aesthetics of Sanitation and Social Practice in Dickens’s Fiction: Prostitution and Moral Politics in Oliver Twist.” Sun Yat-sen Journal of Humanities 43 (July 2017): 73-97. (THCI Core)(Mandarin)

5. “‘It’s a Catastrophe. Relax!’ The Question Concerning Climate Change in Ian McEwan’s Solar.” Chung Wai Literary Quarterly 46.2 (June 2017): 83-117. (THCI Core)(Mandarin)

6. “Phubber Sherlock, Risky London and Safe England: Remaking Holmes in the Age of Information Technology.” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 34.1 (March 2017): 329-347. (A&HCI)

7. “Creative Nostalgia and Identity Politics in A Good Fall.” Studies in Modern Fiction 21.1 (Spring 2014): 53-78.

8. “‘All Smell is Disease’: Narratives of Sanitation and Economy of Morality in Dickens’ Bleak House” Router 16 (Spring 2013): 173-218. (THCI Core, TSSCI)(Mandarin)

9. “‘Morphine or Cocaine?’ Sherlock Holmes and the Social Perception of Drugs.” NTU Studies in Language and Literature 29 (June 2013): 25-51. (THCI Core) (MLA International Bibliography) 

10. “The Brave New World of Biopolitics in Never Let Me Go.” Chung Wai Literary Quaterly 41.2 (2012): 15-54.（THCI Core）(TA&HCI) (MLA            International Bibliography) (Mandarin) 

11. “London is ‘Waiting for Its Bomb’: History, Memory, and Fear of Destruction in Ian McEwan’s Saturday.” Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture 5.2 (2012):105-134. (MLA International Bibliography) (THCI Core)

12. “Contagions and Ways of Seeing: Charles Booth and Fear of Degeneration in London Poor.” 19th Century Literature in English 15.2 (2011):          149-184. (Korean journal) (ISSN: 1598-3269)

13. “Divinity on the Implacable and Immemorial Earth: Dialectics of Pregnancy in Light in August.” Tamkang Review 40.1 (2009):141-164. (THCI Core)

14. “The Ripper Fascination: Morality, Discipline and Medical Imagination.” Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies 6 (Spring 2008): 107-52. (THCI           Core) (TSSCI) (Mandarin)

15. “Into a Theory of the Gift: Marcel Mauss and the Gift Economy.” Chung-Wai Literary Quarterly 36.3 (Sep 2007): 201-34.（THCI Core）(Mandarin)

Unreviewed Articles and Review Articles: 

1. “What’s Wrong with Being Fat? Victorian Narratives of Obesity and Body Politics” Bulletin of Humanity and Social Sciences Studies. Ministry of Science. Sep 2020. 

2. “The Voice under the Metaphor as Illness.” Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies 30 (Spring): 2020. 166-71. (Book Review of Liu Shao-hua. Leprosy Doctors in China's Post-Imperial Experimentation: Metaphors of a Disease and Its Control. Acropolis: Taipei. 2018.) 

Conference Articles

1. "The Genealogy of Masks: Contextualizing the Techonology of the Self." The Multi-ConTEXT: Interdisciplinary Conference, Chungbuk National University, South Korea. Oct 11-12, 2024.

2. "Measuring Social Distance: Narratives of COVID-19 & Rescaling Technology of the Self.” STS 2023 Annual Conference: Rescaling the World. Taipei. Sep. 2023. 

3. "Narrative Dementia: Storytelling and Understanding of Human Condition in Recent Taiwanese Writing of Aging.” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) 2022 (Online) 

4. "Sanitary Ethics and Aesthetic Practices in the Time of Pandemic.” STS 2022 Annual Conference. Dong Hua University, Hualien. Sep 2022. 

5. “ Envisioning Artificial Intelligence and Simulated Affections in Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me.” Presented at the 4th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Humanities (ICAIH 2021) (Online). Chung-And University, South Korea. Oct 2021. 

6. “Epidemic Blindness and the Politics of Seeing in José Saramago’s Blindness.” Presented at the conference Interfacing 2021: Pandemics and Plagues, Languages & Literatures, Interface Journal of European Languages and Literatures (Online). National Taiwan University. Oct 2021. 

7. “Politics of Aging: Pathologizing the Old Age in Victorian Medical Narratives.” Presented at the conference of The Midwest Victorian Studies Association (MVSA) 2021 Annual Conference (Online). May 2021. 

8. “Fighting the 'Great Social Evil': Victorian Narratives of Venereal Diseases and Social Purity.” Presented at the conference of The 51st Meeting of the Taiwan World History Group: Annual Conference. National Taiwan University. Mar 2021. 

9. “Simone de Beauvoir and the Philosophy of Old Age.” Presented at the conference of Talking about Old Age: Representation and Writing of Aging and Old Age. National Kaohsiung National University. Jan 2021. 

10. “Coming of Old Age in Ha Jin’s American Stories.” Presented at the conference of Asian American Studies in the Twenty-First Century. National Chiao Tung University. Dec 2020. 

11. “Narratives of Dementia: Writing Dementia and Its Discontents in Contemporary Taiwan.” Presented at the Conference of Public Humanities in Taiwan, (By invitation) (科技部標竿計畫：人文反思與當代台灣：文化實踐的探索與新試探), National Taiwan University. July 2020.

12. “Fear of Life in the Medicalized Society: The Medical and Ethical Allegory in Ian McEwan’s Later Novels.” Presented at the 41st Annual Conference of the Comparative Literature Association of Republic of China, National Chiao Tung University, June 2019. 

13. “Verbalizing Contagion: Narrative Features of Sanitation and the Rise of Public Health.” Presented at The Conference of Research Project the Discipline of Foreign Languages, (By Invitation) 外文學門專題計畫研究成果發表會), National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi. March 2019.

14. “Theorizing Contagion: Narrative Features of Edwin Chadwick and the Rise of Governance of Public Health.” Presented at the Midwest Victorian Studies Association (MVSA) 2018 Conference: Victorian Health & Wellness. St. Louis University, St. Louis. April 2018.

15. “Serial Outbreaks: Florence Nightingale and the Recurring of Economy of Morality.” Presented at Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) 2018 Conference: Serials, Cycles, Suspensions. San Francisco State University, San Francisco. March 2018. 

16. "Victorian Contagion: Risk and Social Control.” Presented at 2018 Institute of Medical Humanities: Unequal Distribution of Humanity. National Cheng Kung University, November 2018.

17. “From Imagined Community to Imagined Immunity: Bodies of Contagion and Politics of Governance in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Novels.” Presented at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) Annual Conference,  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. March 2017.

18. “Aesthetics of Sanitation and Social Practice in Dickens' Novels.” Presented at The Conference of Research Project the Discipline of Foreign Languages, (By Invitation) (科技部外文學門專題計畫研究成果發表會) National Chung-Hsin Universityi, Taichung, Taiwan, Nov 2016.

19. “Portal to Transnational Communication: Problematizing Identity Politics in Ha Jin’s A Map of Betrayal.” Presented at Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) Annual Conference, Miami, USA. May 2016.

20. “Hereditary Genius in the Grandeur of Life: The New Man, the Beast Man and the Crazy Scientist on Dr. Moreau’s Island.” Presented at the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual     Conference, Harvard University, USA. March 2016.

21. “Evolutionary Imagination from Pathology to Morbidity: Obesity in Dickens’ Novels and Victorian Medical Writings.” Presented at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) Annual      Conference,  Asheville, North Carolina, USA. March 2016.

22. “A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Identity: Contesting Chinese Modernity in the Time of Multiculturalism.” Presented at Re-visioning Activism: The Fourth International Conference on Asian British and Asian American Literatures, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Dec 2015.

23. “Evolutionary Imagination From Pathology to Degeneration: Obesity and Moral Economy in Dickens’ Novels.” Presented at the 37th Annual Conference of the Comparative Literature Association of Republic of China, National Sun Yat Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. May 2015.

24. “Enhanced Life, Ensured Life, Endangered Life: The Medicalisation of Dr. Moreau’s Island.” Presented at the Tokyo International Conference on Social Sciences (TICSS) annual conference, Tokyo, Japan. December 2014.

25. "Ecology of Disgust: Economy of Morality and Enlightenment of Modernity in Dickens's Later Novels.” Presented at the 22nd Annual Conference of the English and American Literature Association of Republic of China, National Chengchi University, Taiwan, Taiwan. Nov 2014. 

26. “Remembering and Re-membering Trauma in Ian McEwan’s Solar.” Presented at the What Happens Now: 21st Century Writing in English, University of Lincoln, UK. July 2014.

27. “Poetics of Residue in Narratives of Sanitation: On the Economy of Morality in Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend.” Presented at the 36th Annual Conference of the Comparative Literature Association of Republic of China, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. May 2014.

28. “Biopolitics at the Margin: Production, Management and Advancement of Lives on Doctor Moreau’s Island.” Presented at the 21st Annual Conference of the English and American Literature Association, National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi. Nov 2013.

29. “‘The Best Thing America Gave Me’: Memory of the Other.” Presented at the conference of The Other and Asian American Literature, Academia Sinica, Taipei. Sep 2013.

30. “Creative Nostalgia and Identity Politics in A Good Fall.” Presented at the annual conference of The Korean Association of Modern Fiction in English (KAMFE), Chonnam University, Gwangju, Korea. Sep 2013. 

31. “Biopolitical Sherlock: Information Technology and Liquid Modernity at Risk” Presented at the Sherlock Holmes: Past and Present, Senate House, London. June 2013.

32. “On the Mode of Communication”: Cholera and Victorian Biopolitics” Presented at the 2012 Conference of Health and Illness in Culture, Taipei Medical University, Taipei. Dec 2012.

33. “Spectacle and Politics of the Microcosm World: On John Snow’s Mode of Communication of Cholera and Medical Detective Narratives.” Presented at the 20th Annual Conference of the English and American Literature Association, Fu-jen Catholic University, Taipei. Nov 2012.

34. “London is “Waiting for Its Bomb”: History, Memory, and Fear of Destruction in Ian McEwan’s Saturday”  Presented at What Happens Now: 21st Century Writing in English, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, England. July 2012.

35. “Restoring Bare Life the Post-Genome Era: Disease and Bio-citizenship in Later Ian McEwan.” Presented at the 35th Annual Conference of the Comparative Literature Association of Republic of China, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu. May 2012.

36. “War Memory in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Floating World.” Presented at the War Memories: The Third International Conference on Asian British and Asian American Literatures, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Dec 2011.

37. “History and Redemption Under the Shadow of Global Warming: Environmental Politics and Trauma Writing in Ian McEwan’s Solar.” Presented at the 19th Annual Conference of the English and American Literature Association, National Dong-Hwa University, Hualien. Nov 2011.

38. “Smoke, Smell and Stagnancy in Bleak House: Politics of Contagion of the Polluted London.” Presented at Literary London 2011 Conference, the Institute of English Studies,   University of London, UK. July 2011.

39. “Dialectics of Production, Donation, and Abjection: Biopolitics and Bio-Citizenship in Never Let Me Go.” Presented at the 34th Annual Conference of the Comparative Literature Association of Republic of China, National Chi Nan University, Nantou. May 2011.

40. “Transnational and Interdisciplinary Contagions: Victorian Slum Narratives from Charles Booth to Arthur Morrison” Presented at the English Language and Literature Association Korea (ELLAK) International Conference, Daejeon Convention Center, Daejeon, Korea. Dec 2-4 2010.

41. “Dickensian Medical Realism and the Politics of Normatism: Narratives of Contagion in Everyday Life of London Slum” Presented at the 18th Annual Conference of the English and American Literature Association, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung. Nov 2010.

42. “Narratives of Incapability and the Condition of England in Ian McEwan’s Later Fiction” Presented at Contemporary Literature and its Contexts Conference, Centre for New Writing, The University of Manchester, UK. July 2010. 

43. “Ian McEwan's London and the Condition of England” Presented at Literary London 2010 Conference, the Institute of English Studies, University of London, UK. July 2010.

44. “Love in the Time of Terror: On Metaphor of Disease and Post-911 Trauma in Saturday” Presented at the 33rd Annual Conference of the Comparative Literature Association of Republic of China, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei. May 2010.

45. “Love at First Bite: Body Politics and Fear of Syphilis in Dracula” Presented at the 17th Annual English and American Literature Association Conference: Senses and Literature, Soochow University, Taiwan, November 2009.

46. “Fear of Contamination: Discursive Formation of Contagion in Victorian Slum Narratives.” Presented at the 8th Global Conference: Making Sense Of: Health, Illness and Disease, Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom, July 2009.

47. “All Smell is Disease: Dickensian Contagion Narratives and Medical Realism.” Presented at the Literary London Conference, Queen Mary, London University, United Kingdom, July 2009.

48. “Submissive or Subversive Body: Male Gaze and the Fear of Syphilis in Dracula.” Presented at the American Comparative Literature Association Conference at Harvard University, March 2009.

49. “In the Name of Racial Health: On Contagious Diseases, Medicine and the Policy of British Imperialism.”  Presented at the 2008 International Conference of Center for Humanities and Social Sciences at NSYSU, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Nov 2008

50. “Narratives of the Ripper Case-On East End Prostitution around 1888.”  Presented at the Literary London Conference, Brunell University, London, U.K. July 2008

51. “Love in a Time of Terror: Trauma, Disease and Hospitality in Saturday.” Presented at the College English Association Annual Conference 2008, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. Mar 2008

52. “Photography-Memory-History: Reading Diaspora in Snow Falling on Cedars.” Presented at the Diaspora and Asian Novel Conference, NSYSU, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Jan 2008

53. “Cocaine or Morphine?: The Construction of Masculinity in Sherlock Holmes” Presented at the Literary London Conference, Westminster University, London, U.K. July 2007

54. “Rerouting Resistance: Rethinking Violence and Bombs” Presented at the Conference of Rerouting Postcolonial, Northampton University, Northampton, U.K. July 2007

55. “Jack the Ripper in East End London” Presented at the Conference of Medical Humanitarianism and Social Transformation, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, March 2007

56. “Into a Theory of the Gift: Marcel Mauss and the Gift Economy” Presented at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Hawaii, U.S.A. Jan 2007

57. “The Ripper Fascination” Presented at the Literary London 2006 international conference, Greenwich University, London, U.K. July 2006

Translations

1. 〈華人在美國的離散游移；全球新經濟中的國際關係、族群認同與少數族裔權  益〉。《全球屬性。在地聲音：《亞美學刊》四十年精選集》。上冊。單德興等編輯。台北：允晨文化，2012 。PP. 62-100。

2. 《書中謎》（The Secret of Lost Things）(Published by China Times Publication in Jan 2008)                                                                                                               

3. 《反目：美國文學大論戰》(Literary Feuds) (Serialized on INK monthly magazine since May 2007, published by The China Times Publication in 2008)                      

4. 《男人與妻子》(Man and Wife) 2003. Business Weekly Publication.                        

5. 《企業人的新語言》（Global Literacies）2002. Locus Publications.                    

6. 《打破沉默》(Breaking the Silence) Living Psychology Publishers. 2001.(Nominated for the ten best translations of the year by the United Daily)                                

7. 《波赫士談詩論藝》(This Craft of Verse.) China Times Publication, 2000.(Nominated for the ten best translations of the year by the China Times)

Selected Chinese Articles on Newspaper or Collected Books

1. “What’s Wrong of Being Fat?: Victorian Narratives of Obesity and Body Politics.” 〈胖，到底有什麼問題？ 維多利亞的肥胖論述與身體政治〉。《人文與社會科學簡訊》21. 4 (2020): 48-56。（https://www.most.gov.tw/most/attachments/dcb1fe25-90a5-45cb-a6fc-808113cfa884?fbclid=IwAR07jhe9GzkZl0AX4N8_YPCw4Rx9DQNpvRaPWzZy_7azDmlVbqA1dsftUuk）

2. “The Voice under the Metaphor as Illness” 〈疾病隱喻下的底層之聲〉。《文化研究》30 (2020):166-171。

3. 〈生命政治的暗黑幻想：《莫洛醫師的島嶼》中的生命製造、管理與進化〉(“The Dark Fantasy of Biopolitics: The Production, Management, and Evolution of Lives on Dr. Moreau’s Island.”) 《學於途而印於心：李有成教授七秩壽慶暨榮退文集》台北：書林出版，頁 47-78。

4. 〈忠誠與背叛：哈金演講暨座談會〉(“Loyalty and Betrayal: Speech and Seminar of Ha Jin”) 《英美文學評論》30(2017): 131-164 

5. 〈兒子的波蘿麵包〉(“My Son’s Pineapple Bun”) 《2014飲食文選》。焦桐主編。    臺北：二魚文化。Collected in the 2014 Annual Collection of Essays on Food.

6. 〈小說的時代意識與再現：麥可伊旺（Ian McEwan）《甜食控》導讀〉(The     Awareness and Representation of Time: Introduction to Ian McEwan's Sweet  Tooth." )台北：慢步文化。2014年8月。頁11-16。

7. 〈兒子的波蘿麵包〉(“My Son’s Pineapple Bun”) Published in The Liberty Times in Mar 2014   

8. 〈茶葉蛋的滋味：懷念朱炎教授〉(“A Taste of Tea Egg: In Memory of Professor Yen Chu”) Published in《南山不寂寞：懷念朱炎教授》台北：九歌文化， Dec 2012   

Selected Invited Speeches:

1. 〈海明威與⻄蒙波娃的性別及老化辯證〉(“Gender and the Dialectics of Aging in Ernest Hemingway and Simone de Beauvoir”) 國科會外⽂學⾨前沿思想論壇系列 Apr. 12, 2024 

2. 〈〈病毒⼈類世:當代感染論述的⽂化與政治〉反 思⼈類世—從負⼈類世、暗⿊⽣態到病毒世」論壇。 國立師範⼤學英語學系。 

3. 〈⼝罩的臉：疫情下的集體記憶與情感技術〉(“The Face of the Mask: Collective Memory and Technology of Affects in the Shadow of the Pandemic”) Praxis School, Taiwan Contemporary Cultural Lab. Oct. 15, 2022 (online) 

4. "Envisioning Disruption, Transition and Transformation in machines like me" (Keynote Speech). 2022 Hwa Kang International Conference on English Language & Literature, Chinese Culture University (Online). 

5. 〈感染論述的⾃我技術與恐懼政治〉 (“Technology of the Self and Politics of Fear in Narratives of Contagion”) Praxis School, Taiwan Contemporary Cultural Lab. Apr. 10, 2021 

6. 〈新世紀福爾摩斯：未來科技的想像與黑暗〉(“Sherlock Holmes in the New Millennium: The Fascination with Technology and Its Discontents”) 國家圖書館108年冬季閱讀講座-西洋文學中的大時代 Dec 14, 2019

7. 維多利亞時期小說的感染政治與治理〉(“The Politics and Governance of Contagion in Victorian Novels”) 英美文學學會學術系列演講-2018新世紀維多利亞系列演講。國立成功大學 Nov 9, 2018

8. 〈偵探論述與醫學想像〉(“Narratives of Detection and Medical Fascinations”)科技部人社中心外文學門研習營，國立中山大學 March 13, 2015 & 高雄醫學大學 May 7, 2015.

9. 〈德古拉的感染想像與性別政治〉(“The Infection Imagination and Gender Politics of Dracula”) 中山大學外國語文學系演講 Dec 10, 2014

10. 〈醫學與文學－福爾摩斯的跨界閱讀〉(“Medicine and Literature: An Interdisciplinary Reading of Sherlock Holmes”) 清華大學外國語文學系演講 Dec 3, 2014

11. 〈維多利亞的醫學與文學——淺論迪更斯的城市書寫〉(“Victorian Medicine and Literature: On Dickens’s Urban Writing”) 輔仁大學歷史學系103年度世界史研習營——學術系列講座（第二場）May 21, 2014

12. 〈反抗的文學，革命的詩學：淺談英美文學的抗爭與正義〉（“Literature of Revolt, Poetics of Revolution”） 台北醫學大學醫學人文研究社演講 Apr 22, 2014

13. 〈文學、帝國與醫學想像新書發表會〉（“Book Launching Lecture”） 國立台灣師範大學/英美文學學會 Mar 7, 2014

14. 〈從福爾摩斯到吸血鬼——跨領域閱讀文學〉（“From Sherlock Holmes to Dracula: An Interdisciplinary Approach of Reading”） 台北國際書展迷你沙龍 Feb 9, 2014