Ph.D. Department of English, King’s College London (UK)

M.A. Department of English and Related Literature, University of York (UK)

B.A. Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University (Taiwan)

women's writing; literature and visual arts; 18th-century literature; 19th-century literature

2024.08-2025.07  NSTC Project (Female Bodies and Corporality in Literature 1760-1820) / 1-year project

2023.08-2024.07  NSTC Project (Women, Otherness and Body Politics, 1760-1820) / 1-year project

2023.01-2024.12  NTU Academic Research–Career Development Project, Sprout Research Project (Reinventing World Relations: Global Visions in Women's Narratives) / 2-year project

2022.08-2023.07  MOST Project (Hidden Hands: Women in Adam Smith's Economic Narratives) / 1-year project 

2021.08-2022.07  MOST Project (Priscilla Wakefield's Imaginings of China: Sino-British Cultural Relations in the Early Nineteenth Century) / 1-year project 

2018.02-2021.01  MOST Project (Beyond Boundaries: Literature and Portraiture at the Turn of the Century) / 3-year project

2023     Yi-cheng Weng, '中英文化之交會——魏客霏異國書寫中的雙重批判', 浩蕩英華：長十八世紀的英國文藝與歷史, eds. K. Chiu and P. Huang, Taipei: China Times Publishing Co, pp. 79–118. [book chapter in Mandarin Chinese]

2022     Yi-cheng Weng, 'Grappling with Celebrity Status: Women, Theatre, and the Mechanisms of Celebrity in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain', Journal of Gender Studies, 31.4, pp. 527–543.

2021     Yi-cheng Weng, 'Fashioning the Self-portrait: Mary Robinson's Self in Pictures and Words', The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture, 14.2, pp. 213–239.

2021     Yi-cheng Weng, '《被監禁的女人》——家務工作者的勞動處境延伸討論', 性別平等教育季刊, 93, pp. 119–124. [article in Mandarin Chinese]

2020     Yi-cheng Weng, '"There is another, and a better world": Crafting an Authorial Identity in Mary Robinson's The Natural Daughter', Tamkang Review, 51.1, pp. 175–202.

2019     Yi-cheng Weng, ‘An "Englishwoman's private theatrical":  Helen Maria Williams and the New Female Citizen’, EurAmerica: A Journal of European and American Studies 歐美研究, 49.3, pp. 341–374.

2017     Yi-cheng Weng, ‘”She had recourse to her pen”: Radical Voices in Elizabeth Hamilton’s Memoirs of Modern Philosophers’, Romantic Textualities, 22, pp. 36–51.

2017      Yi-cheng Weng, Book review of The Oxford History of the Novel in English. Volume 2: English and British Fiction 1750-1820 (Oxford University Press, 2015), for The BARS Review, 50.

2016      Yi-cheng Weng, ‘女性的政治參與—以英國十八世紀女性作家夏綠蒂・史密斯為例’, 性別平等教育季刊, 77, pp. 119–124. [article in Mandarin Chinese]

2012      Yi-cheng Weng, ‘Enabling Narrative: Didacticism in Jane West’s A Gossip’s Story and A Tale of the Times’, Fiction and Drama, 22.1, pp. 103–120. 

2024     翁怡錚，'Reimagining the Female Body in the Global Eighteenth Century', The English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK) 2024 Conference: Rethinking the Global in English Studies, held at Seoul National University (Korea), 12–14 December.

2024     Yi-cheng Weng, 'Sino-British Networks: Women's Narratives and the Making of a Modern Nation', International Federation for Research in Women's History (IFRWH) 2024 Conference: Reflections on Major Issues in Women's History, held at Tsuda University (Japan), 7–10 August.

2023     Yi-cheng Weng, 'Caring for Women: Adam Smith and Women's Share in the Economy', 2023 EALA Conference: Mapping Care: Imaginations, Practices, and Theories, held at National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan), 14 October.

2022     Yi-cheng Weng, 'Cultural Interventions: Representations of China in Priscilla Wakefield's Writings in the Early Nineteenth Century', Conference: Romantic Interventions: From Idealism to Activism, held at Dortmund University (Germany), 3–5 February.

2021     Yi-cheng Weng, 'Mapping the Public Woman in the Writings of Priscilla Wakefield and Her Protofeminist Contemporaries', Gendering Transformations: Feminist Knowledge Production and Trans/national Activist Engagement Conference, held at National Central Library (Taiwan), 28–31 October.

2019     Yi-cheng Weng, 'Imagining Cosmopolitanism beyond the Nation: Women Writers in the Face of War', 2019 ELLAK International Conference: Nurturing Global Citizens within War and Violence Narratives (South Korea), 16–18 December.

2019     Yi-cheng Weng, ‘Visualizing Women: Mary Robinson and Intellectual Restlessness’, The 27th EALA Conference, held at National Chung Cheng University (Taiwan), 2 November.

2019     Yi-cheng Weng, ‘Beyond Borders: Mary Robinson’s Discourses of Love’, 21st Annual Comparative Literature Conference: Borders and Borderlands in the Age of Globalization, held at University of South Carolina (USA), 29–30 March, 2019

2018     Yi-cheng Weng, ‘形象轉向：談十九世紀中期《家庭天使》的女性想像’, The 26th EALA Conference, held at National Taitung University (Taiwan), 27 October.

2018     Yi-cheng Weng, ‘Reputation Recuperated: Amelia Opie in the Mid-nineteenth Century’, The 26th Annual British Women Writers Conference 2018 (BWWC 2018), held at the University of Texas, Austin (USA), 11–15 April.

2016     Yi-cheng Weng, ‘腐蝕的力量：論小說書寫與蕙斯特反革命論述的挶限與可能性’, The 2016 Conference on Western Literature, Linguistics and TEFL, National Ilan University (Taiwan), 6 May.

2014     Yi-cheng Weng, ‘Colonial Interpretations in the Late Eighteenth Century: Elizabeth Hamilton’s Feminist Construction of the East’, Romantic Connections: The Annual Conference of Northern American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), held at University of Tokyo (Japan), 13–15 June.

2013     Yi-cheng Weng, ‘History and Fiction: Representing History in Elizabeth Hamilton’s novels’, Four Nations Fiction: Women and the Novel, 1780–1830 Conference, University of Wales (UK) September.

2012     Yi-cheng Weng, ‘Through Trade Cards: Rudolph Ackermann’s Repository of Arts’, Writing Materials:  Women of Letters from Enlightenment to Modernity Conference, jointly held by Victoria and Albert Museum and King’s College London (UK), November.

2024     Discussant, The 2024 NTU International Theatre Conference: Rethinking Theatre/Drama as an Encounter (Department of Drama and Theatre, National Taiwan University)

2024     Organising committee, 異文化コミュニケーション：日本語教育シンポジウム及び日韓語学検定ワークショップ (Language Center and the Department of Japanese Language and Literature, National Taiwan University)

2021     Moderator, International Conference: Gendering Transformations― Feminist Knowledge Production and Trans/national Activist Engagement (National Central Library, Taiwan)

2021     Discussant, International Conference on Kunqu and Shakespeare in Contemporary Culture (Taiwan Shakespeare Association, National Central University)

2021     Organising committee, International Conference on Kunqu and Shakespeare in Contemporary Culture (Taiwan Shakespeare Association, National Central University)

2020     Organising committee, TACMRS The 14th International Conference of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies, (Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University)

2020     Organising committee,  2020 Young Scholars Symposium (Taiwan Shakespeare Association)

2021     Moderator,  TACMRS The 14th International Conference of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies, (Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University)

2019     Organising committee,  International Conference Technically Yours: Technicity,  Mediality, and the Stakes of Experience (Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University)

2019     Moderator, Invited Talk: Ian Haywood on Literature and Visual Culture 1780-1840 (Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University)

2019     Moderator, Invited Talk: Clara Tuite on Literary Romanticism: A Cultural History (Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University)

2018     Chief organiser, Frankenstein 200 Film and Book Festival (Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Research Center for Digital Humanities, National Taiwan University Library)

2018     Discussant, Women Writers and Interdisciplinary Possibilities, in The 2018 Research Institute on Interdisciplinary Medical Humanities: IMH 2018 (National Cheng Kung University)

2018     Discussant,  Roundtable workshop: Thinking Through Encounters with Christie McDonald (Harvard University) (Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University)

2023     Speaker, New Book Talk: 浩蕩英華：長十八世紀的英國文藝與歷史 (China Times Publishing)

2022     Speaker, 女性形象塑造及其侷限：以十八世紀末兩位英國劇場名流為例 (Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Tsing Hua University)

2022     Speaker, 愛因斯坦培植計畫及新秀學者計畫分享, 拓宇擎光：2022人文及社會學者跨領域交流會議」(MOST)

2022     Speaker, 研究之經驗與反思：世紀之交的女性文學與畫像 (MOST, National Cheng Kung University)

2021     Speaker, Mary Shelley and Her World (Classical Works in Humanities Program, National Taiwan University)

2021     Speaker, “No Holds Bard”: TSA Shakespeare Salon (Taiwan Shakespeare Association)

2021     Speaker, Graduate school application workshop (Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University)

2020     Speaker, 心之瑜伽：外文系新生期中座談會 (Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University)

2019     Speaker, “Hold On, Love!” Symposium (Department of Chinese at National Taiwan Normal University, Rom Shing Hakka Opera Troupe, Taiwan Shakespeare Association)

2019     Speaker, Research Application Writing (109年年輕學者養成計畫說明會, MOST)

2017     Speaker, Eighteenth-century Political Women and Literary Men (EARN: Enlightenment and Romanticism Network—Reading Session, National Chengchi University) 

2024     Excellent Research Award, National Taiwan University (Taiwan).

2023     Excellent Research Award, National Taiwan University (Taiwan).

2022     Excellent Research Award, National Taiwan University (Taiwan).

2022     2022 Bigger 6/CECS (Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York, UK) Article Prize, Honourable Mention.

2021     Excellent Research Award, National Taiwan University (Taiwan).

2020     Excellent Research Award, National Taiwan University (Taiwan).

2018     MOST Young Scholar Fellowship (Einstein project), Ministry of Science and Technology (Taiwan).

2017     Ministry of Science and Technology Special Outstanding Talent Award, 3 years, (Taiwan).

2016     Academia Sinica Fellowships for Doctoral Candidates in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica (Taiwan).

2015     Visiting Fellowship, Chawton House Library (UK).

2014     Sheila Birkenhead Award, awarded by The Keats-Shelley Association (UK).

2014     The Sir Richard Stapley Award, awarded by Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust (UK).

2014     Travel Award, Graduate School, King’s College London (UK).

2013, 14     Small Research Grant, School of Arts and Humanities, King’s College London (UK).

2013, 14     Travel Award, Department of English, King’s College London (UK).

2012     Studying Abroad Scholarship (教育部留學獎學金), the Ministry of Education (Taiwan).

2025     Excellent Teaching Award, University level, National Taiwan University (Taiwan).

2024     Excellent Teaching Award, University level, National Taiwan University (Taiwan).

2023     Excellent Teaching Award, College level, National Taiwan University (Taiwan).

2022     Excellent Teaching Award, University level, National Taiwan University (Taiwan).

2021     Excellent Teaching Award, University level, National Taiwan University (Taiwan).

2020     Excellent Teaching Award, College level, National Taiwan University (Taiwan).

The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture

Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Literature

Ex-position

Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies

EurAmerica

Review of English and American Literature

Tamkang Review 

The Journal of Asian Arts & Aesthetics

 Feng Chia Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

Foreign Language Studies

NSTC Research Project / MOST Research Project

NSTC  Research Grant for University Students

Book Selection Committee, National Central Library

Editorial Board Committee (Exposition), Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University

Undergraduate Admissions Committee, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University

Chairwoman, Composition Committee, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University

Teachers' Evaluation Committee, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University

Curriculum Committee, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University

Coordinator,  Advisors Affairs Committee, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University

Coordinator, Faculty Colloquium, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University

Freshman English Task Force, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University

Teaching Excellence Review Committee, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University

Chair of Foreign Language Division, National Taiwan University Language Center

Executive Secretary, Chung Wai Literary Quarterly, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University

Secretary-General, Taiwan Shakespeare Association

Going Global: Themes and Approaches in the Long 18th-century Literature (National Taiwan University)

British Women Writers and the Novel (National Taiwan University)  NTU Women's and Gender Studies Program

Mary Shelley and Her Novels (National Taiwan University)  NTU Classical Works in Humanities Program

English Composition II (National Taiwan University)

English Oral Training (National Chengchi University)

Children’s Literature (National Taiwan University of Arts)

Academic English Listening and Oral Training (National Tsing Hua University)

English Academic Abstract Writing (National Tsing Hua University)

Doris Lessing (School of Professional Education and Continuing Studies, National Taiwan University)

For information not listed above, please contact Yi-cheng directly via email yichengweng@ntu.edu.tw