Research
Research
Research Interests
Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century British Literature
Southeast Asian Anglophone and Sinophone Literature
Narrative and Critical Theory
“Book Review of Imagined Literature Communities: Literary Modernism in Taiwan and its Global Resonance.” Newsletter of the Comparative Literature Association of the Republic of China, vol. 49, 2025.〈《想像的文學共同體：文學現代主義在臺灣及其全球旅行》書評〉，中華民國比較文學學會電子報，第49期，2025年。
“Inter-Imperial Encounter: Teo Poh Leng’s ‘F.M.S.R.’ and Singapore in the Longue Durée.” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, vol. 51, no. 1, 2025, pp. 9-38.
“Letters from Thailand and Qiaopi in the Age of Cold War.” Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Literature, vol. 32, 2024, pp. 59-96.
“Exploring the Beginning of Malayan Anglophone Literature.” E-Newsletter of The English and American Literature Association (Taiwan), December Issue, 2023, pp. 27-28. 〈初探馬來亞英語文學的源頭〉，中華民國英美文學學會電子報，2023年冬季刊。
“Tracking the ‘Typhoon,’ Charting the China Sea.” The Conradian, vol. 48, no. 1, 2023, pp. 1-20.
“Julian Barnes and the Subversion of the Sense of an Ending.” Narrative, vol. 31, no. 1, 2023, pp. 89-101.
“A Tale for Two Readers: Conrad’s ‘The Tale.’” The Conradian, vol. 47, no. 1, 2022, pp. 31-50.
Winner of the Bruce Harkness Young Scholar Award presented by the Joseph Conrad Society of America
“Probing Covert Progressions.” Style, vol. 55, no. 1, 2021, pp. 68-71. (Co-authored with Brian Richardson)
“Dark Borneo: Yong-Ping Li’s Reworkings of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim in The End of the River.” Conradiana, vol. 50, no. 3, 2018, pp. 259-276.
“Uncanny Chinatown: Modernist Urban Forms in Colonial and Postcolonial Singapore,” The British Association for Modernist Studies/Modernist Studies Association Joint Annual Conference, Loughborough, UK, 2026
“The Geopolitics in Edwin Thumboo’s Brand Story of Singapore Literature,” The 48th Annual Meeting of the Comparative Literature Association of the Republic of China, Taipei, Taiwan, 2026
“The ‘Living Dead’ in 1930s Singapore,” The 33rd Annual Conference of English and American Literature Association, Taipei, Taiwan, 2025
“Promoting Students’ Motivations and Learning Outcomes in Foreign Literature Courses Through Project-Based Learning,” 從課室到社會永續：教學實踐與創新研討會，東吳大學，台北，2024
“The Promise of Tropical Medicine in Joseph Conrad’s ‘The Shadow-Line,’” The Thirteenth Quadrennial International Conference on Comparative Literature, Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taiwan, 2023
“Global Modernism and Tash Aw’s The Harmony Silk Factory,” Bunga Rampai: A Symposium on Anglophone Malaysian Literature, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, 2023
“Tash Aw and the Postcolonial Intervention into the Global Literary Marketplace,” International Society for the Study of Narrative Conference (Hybrid) 2023
“The Modernist Revelation of Trauma in The Garden of Evening Mists,” Taiwan Humanities Society Annual Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, 2022
“‘Dirty Weather’: Inhospitality and Catastrophe in Joseph Conrad’s ‘Typhoon,’” The 30th Annual Conference of English and American Literature Association (Virtual) 2022
“Aphasia and the Speed of Life Writing in The Garden of Evening Mists,” Comparative Literature Association of the Republic of China Annual Meeting (Virtual) 2022
“Lists of Trash, Myths of Elephants: Environmental Ruination in the Borneo Rainforest Novels,” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting (Virtual) 2022
“Subverting the Sense of an Ending in Character Narration,” International Society for the Study of Narrative Conference (Virtual) 2021
“The Promise of a ‘Second Story’: The Surprise Ending of Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending,” Northeast Modern Language Association Convention (Virtual) 2021
“The Contradictory Sense of an Ending in Anna Kavan’s Ice,” International Society for the Study of Narrative Conference, New Orleans, LA, 2020
“Reading Modernist-ly or Postmodernist-ly?: The Oblique Relations between the Prose and the Journal in Ann Quin’s Passages,” The 48th Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, Louisville, KY, 2020
“Unlikely Narrative: The Contradictory Functions of Lists in Samuel Beckett’s Molloy,” Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, DC, 2019
“(Not) Knowing Greece/Greek: Satire and Jacob’s Hellenism in Jacob’s Room,” Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies Annual Meeting, College Park, MD, 2017
“The New Reader: The Writerly Labor and Samuel Beckett’s Molloy,” Annual Graduate Student Conference, Department of English, University of Maryland, 2017
“‘God is among Us’: Religious Enlightenment and Pentheus’ Vision in Euripides’ Bacchae 918-22,” The 8th Annual Graduate Student Conference in Classics at The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York, NY, 2015
“Memory on Display: Rhesus and the Stagecraft in the Theater of Dionysus in Mid/Late Fourth Century BCE,” GreekFest 2015: [Euripides’] Rhesus, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2015
“Striving for Unity: The Unity of Action and Moral Integrity in Sophocles’ Antigone,” Taiwan Philosophical Association Annual Conference, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 2013
“Singapore Between the Empires” and “Edwin Thumboo and the Canonization of Singapore Literature in English,” Working Group on Singapore Literature and Culture, Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2026
“Asian Englishes Literature and Singapore Anglophone Literature,” Working Group on Singapore Literature and Culture, Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, 2025
“Teo Poh Leng and the Beginning of Anglophone Malayan Literature,” Working Group on Singapore Literature and Culture, Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, 2024
“The Localization of Modernism in Contemporary Malaysian Anglophone Literature,” Symposium, “Anglo-American Literature Studies in Taiwan: Criticism, Theories, and Practices,” National Ilan University, Ilan, Taiwan, 2023
“Tracking Conrad’s ‘Typhoon,’ Charting the China Sea,” Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Tsing Hua University, 2023
“Epistles and World Literature: Tan Twan Eng’s The Gift of Rain,” Roundtable “Writing East Asia,” Research Center for Literary Thoughts and Discourses, National Tsing Hua University, 2022
“Edwin Thumboo and the Brand Story of Singapore Literature in English,” National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan, 2025/8-2027/7, Grant number: NSTC 114-2410-H-031-013-MY2
“Teo Poh Leng, Wang Gungwu, and the Beginning of Singapore Literature in English,” National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan, 2024/8-2025/7, Grant number: NSTC 113-2410-H-031-013
“Promoting Students’ Motivations and Learning Outcomes in Foreign Literature Courses Through Project-Based Learning,” Ministry of Education, Taiwan, 2023/8-2024/7, Grant number: PHA1123337
“The Localization of Modernism in Malaysian Anglophone Novels,” National Science and Technology Council, 2023/2-2024/1, Grant number: NSTC 112-2410-H-031-004