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Graduate Students: Taiwan-Related Activities

 

 

Yuchin Chen

 

Eugene Chen is a US-based Taiwanese-Indonesian writer. She writes about (im)migrant experiences and border-crossing living conditions. Her current project concerns the representation of immigrants and the Chinese diaspora in literary and media works.

Publications

  • "Haunting Memories in Transnational Film Production: The Garden of Evening Mists." Paper presented at the North American Taiwan Studies Association Convention. Irvine, CA. Jun 24, 2023.

Presentations

  • "Beyond Books: Taiwanese Stories in the World", North American Taiwan Studies Association, Irvine, Jun 24, 2023
  • Roundtable Participant, Ghost Town Roundtable Conversation, Center for Taiwan Studies at UT Austin, Austin, May 2, 2023.
  • "All about Being a Writer: Writing, Residency, and Studying Abroad (寫作修羅場，衣食父母靠補助：關於創作、駐村、可能還有留學)", Taipei National University of the Arts (北藝大文學跨域創作研究所), Virtual, March 3, 2023.
  • "Marriage Hollic: About Writing, and What I Know About Fiction (我有結婚病：關於寫作，以及我所知道的小說)", Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature, National Taiwan University (臺灣大學台灣文學研究所), Dec 12, 2022.
  • "Drifting to Taipei", Goucher College, Baltimore, Nov 2, 2022.
  • "Drifting to Taipei", Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Oct 26, 2022

Jessica Fan

 

Fellowships

  • Received the Study Abroad Scholarship from the Ministry of Education (MOE) of Taiwan to work toward her dissertation project, tentatively titled: “Commodification of Culture and Beyond: Cultural Production and Aesthetic Paradigm Shift of Contemporary Taiwan.” The scholarship will support Jessica’s studies from 2022 to 2024.  
  • Conducted a field trip in Taiwan in summer 2022 with funding support from the Center for Taiwan Studies. Visited the National Museum of Taiwan Literature and the Yeh Shyr-Tau Literary Memorial Museum in Tainan in August 2022.

Publications

  • “Taiwanese Literature through the Lens of World Literature: Publications in 2022 and 2023,” part of the special issue themed “Taiwanese Literature in/and the World,” April 2023.
Professional Services
  • Served as the Program Commissioner for the 2023 North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA) annual conference, held on June 22-24 at the University of California, Irvine.
  • Coordinated and moderated several panels on the cultural and social landscapes of Taiwan at the NATSA 2023 conference, including “Beyond Books: Taiwanese Stories in the World,” “Haunted: Memories as Resistance,” and “Queer Worlding and Marginal Resilience in Queer Taiwanese Spaces.”
  • Co-organized the Texas Asia Conference (TAC) with two doctoral students in Asian Studies in February 2022. Held on February 25 and 26, TAC is a biennial international conference that provides a platform to present and engage with graduate research work centered on Asia from various disciplinary perspectives. Invited Professor Jason McGrath from the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota to deliver a keynote address on Taiwan, titled “Is Taiwan Southeast Asian? Re-framing Taiwan’s Modern History and Culture as Settler-Colonial.” Assisted Professor Yvonne Chang in organizing a special seminar with Professor McGrath and Taiwanese writer Yu-chin Chen on February 26, 2022.
Presentations
  • Delivered an individual paper presentation titled “(Re)worlding Taiwan through Literature: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Histories in Yang Shuang-zi’s Popularized Historical Fiction” during the NATSA 2023 conference. June 22-24 at the University of California, Irvine.
  • Invited to serve as a roundtable discussant for Kevin Chen’s “Ghost Town Book Talk,” hosted by the Center for Taiwan Studies at UT Austin on May 2, 2023. 
  • Paper, “Taipei as an Urban Palimpsest: The Case of Taiwanese Novelist Wu Ming-yi’s Fictional Universe,” 4th World Congress of Taiwan Studies, University of Washington, June 2022.
  • Paper, “A Transcultural Performance of Affects: Affectivity in the Production, Translation, and Reception of Wu Ming-yi’s The Man with the Compound Eyes and The Stolen Bicycle”, NATSA (North American Taiwan Studies Association) annual conference, May 2021.
Teaching
  • Invited to deliver a guest lecture titled “Rainbow Island: Taiwan’s LGBTQ Culture & Society” for Dr. Chiu-mi Lai’s Introduction to China course on December 2, 2022.

Shu-Wen Tang

 

Fellowships
  • University Graduate Continuing Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin (August 2022 - July 2023)
  • Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange‘s (2021-2022)
Scholarly Exchanges
  • Visiting Scholar, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. (August 2021– )
Publications
  • Book Chapter: “‘Zhuanxing (qi) Zhengyi Meixue’: Taiwan qianxi shidai de shikong cuowei lishi shuxie”「轉型（期）正義美學」：臺灣千禧世代的時空錯位歷史書寫 [Aesthetics of Transitional Justice: Anachrony in fiction by Taiwanese Millennial Writers]. Taiwan wenxue de laishi臺灣文學的來世 [The Afterlife of Taiwanese Literature]. Eds. Chih-fan Chen, Min-xu Zhan, Yu-ting Wang & Hsin-chin Evelyn Hsieh. Hsinchu: National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Press. 2023 (Forthcoming)
  • Journal Article: "The Current Landscape of Taiwan Studies Using IJTS Keywords." Co-authored with Wei-Ting Yen. International Journal of Taiwan Studies 6, 1 (2022): 182-191. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/24688800-20221349
Presentations
  • Invited Talk: "Prose Aesthetics in the Era of Social Media and Digital Technology." 2023 National Taiwan Literature Camp. Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan. July 7, 2023. (Invited by Ink Literary Magazine to deliver a talk on the aesthetics of contemporary Taiwanese prose.)
  • "Taiwan Ruqin’: hou shehui zhuyi zhongguo de xiao qinggan meixue (1979-2000)”「台灣入侵」：後社會主義中國的小情感美學（1979-2000）["Taiwan Invasion": The Aesthetics of Minor Affects in Post-Socialist China (1979-2000)]. Paper presented at “Chufeng qingsheng: wenzhe qingnian xuezhe xiaji luntan 雛鳳清聲：文哲青年學者夏季論壇 [Academia Sinica Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy Young Scholars Summer Forum]. Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. June 5, 2023.
  • Invited Talk: “Making ‘Sense’ of One Hundred Years of Solitude──On the Affective Infrastructures in One Hundred Years of Solitude.” Hong's Foundation for Education & Culture, Taipei, Taiwan. May 28, 2023. (Invited to deliver a public speech as part of the "Ten Lectures on One Hundred Years of Solitude" series, analyzing Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude through the lens of affect theory.)
  • Invited Lecture: “Position, Trajectory, and ‘Anomaly’——Research on the Field of Taiwanese Literature.” Taiwan University Institute of Literature, Taipei, Taiwan. March 7, 2023. (Invited by Prof. Li-hsuan Chang from the Institute of Taiwan Literature at National Taiwan University to give a lecture at her graduate seminar on cultural fields and literary production in postwar Taiwan.)
  • Invited Discussion: “Taiwan-Hong Kong Salon: Imaginary Histories of A City.” Nowhere Bookstore, Taipei, Taiwan. August 21, 2022. (Invited to engage in a public dialogue with a renowned Hong Kong writer and critic Koon-chung Chan on the genealogy of political fantasy novels in Sinophone Literature.)
  • Seminar Presenter, “Aesthetics of Transitional Justice: Anachrony in fiction by Taiwanese Millennial Writers,” Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. August 1, 2022.
  • Invited Talk, “The Field of Contemporary Taiwanese Literary Production,” The Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. July 15, 2022.
  • Invited Talk, “The Long End: Memories and 'Postmemories' of the White Terror Era,” Nylon Cheng (Zheng Nanrong) Memorial Museum, Taipei, Taiwan. April 23, 2022.
  • Invited Lecture, “Literary Testimony Revisited: Memory and Ethics of the Post-White Terror Generation​ in Taiwan,” Department of Chinese Literature, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. April 18, 2022.
  • Invited Discussion: “Aesthetics, Politics and the Market: On Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang's Literary Culture in Taiwan: Martial Law to Market Law” 2023 Taipei International Book Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan. February 3, 2022. (Invited by National Taiwan University Press, participated in a book discussion alongside Prof. Chia-ling Mei from the department of Chinese Literature at National Taiwan University and Prof. Chia-hsien Yang from the department of Chinese Literature at National Tsing Hua University.)
  • Roundtable Discussant, “Cross-border and Interdisciplinary Perspectives of Taiwanese Literature,” The Post-Pandemic Era‧Redeployment of Taiwanese Literature: The 18th National Graduate Student Conference on Taiwanese Literature, National Taipei University of Education, Taipei, Taiwan. November 26, 2021.
  • Invited Talk, “Autonomy and Heteronomy: On the Desire and Object of Literary Writing,” Writers Lecture Series of Daonan Literature Awards, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan. November 11, 2021.
  • Invited Talk, “Taiwan and the Alternative Aesthetic Regime in Post Socialist China,” The International Scholar Lecture Series of the Sinophone Literature Studies Course, Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature and Transnational Cultural Studies, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan. October 20, 2021.

Ting-Chun Wang

 

Graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at National Taiwan University. Received his M.A. degree in Comparative Literature from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Peking University. Currently a second-year Ph.D. student in Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Ting-Chun Wang's research interests cover Chinese and Taiwanese Modern and Contemporary Literature and History in the Twentieth Century. He is particularly interested in the Cultural Production During the Cultural Revolution and in the Post-Socialist Era in China.

Course Papers
  • "Taiwanese civil society’s response to the Ukraine War"
  • "Historiography essay on the global 1960s: the unfinished story", that touch on Taiwan-related issues. 

 

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