Education

Ph.D. in English, National Taiwan Normal University

M.A. in English, National Taiwan Normal University

B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literature, National Cheng Kung University

Professional Experience

• Director, Language Learning Section, Center for Teaching and Learning Development, National Taipei University of Business
• Marketing Coordinator, bKL Architecture LLC (Shanghai Office), USA
• Adjunct Lecturer, Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University
• Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Applied Foreign Languages, Shih Chien University
• Adjunct Lecturer, Department of English, Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages

Projects

• Principal Investigator, EMI Teacher’s Professional Development, National Taipei University of Business, 2023
• Principal Investigator, Humanities and Foreign Language Education in the Post-Pandemic Era, Teacher’s Professional Development, National Taipei University of Business, 2022

Publications

Journal Articles

• “Writing as Acts of Responsibility: J. M. Coetzee’s ‘Stavrogin’ and Elizabeth Costello.” NTU Studies in Language and Literature, No. 33, June 2015, pp. 99–130. (Indexed in MLA and THCI Core)
• “The Nation without Memory: Historical Oblivion and Violence in Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus.” Bulletin of Taiwan Humanities Society, May 2015, pp. 50–53.
• “From the Actual to the Possible: The Cosmopolitan Articulation of Englishness in Arthur & George.” Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture, Vol. 6, No. 2, June 2013, pp. 159–190. (Indexed in MLA and THCI Core)
• “The Crisis of History Writing: Postmodern Historiography in Absalom, Absalom!” Studies in English Language and Literature, No. 21, Feb. 2008, pp. 131–142.
• “Irish Nationalism and Its Discontent: Brian Friel’s The Communication Cord.” Soochow Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures, No. 24, Mar. 2007, pp. 35–64.

Editorial Work

Editor-in-Chief, Newsletter of the Comparative Literature Association of the Republic of China, Issues 42 (June 2023), 44 (Special Issue on Wang Wen-Hsing, Nov. 2023), and 46 (Special Issue on Ch’i Pang-Yuan, Aug. 2024)

Scholarly Presentations

• “Total and Totalitarian Colonization of the Future in The Ministry for the Future.” ISLE-EA, Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul, Oct. 2024.
• “Anthropocene and the End of the World in Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus.” Cross-Strait Conference on Ecological Literature (Online), Oct. 2023.
• “Teaching English, Teaching Humanity: Creating Vital Connections in Viral Times.” 31st ETA Conference, NTUB, Taipei, Nov. 2022.
• The Decameron Project: Guided Reading, NTUB, May 2022.
• “The Nation without Memory: Historical Oblivion and Violence in Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus.” Memory and Witness Workshop, NTNU, Dec. 2014.
• “Writing as Acts of Responsibility: J. M. Coetzee’s ‘Stavrogin’ and Elizabeth Costello.” 4th BAAHE Conference, Brussels, Dec. 2011.
• Conference Commentator – Han Cheng-Wei and Huang Ru-Chi’s papers, 2nd Joint Renmin U and FJU Graduate Conference—Contemporary Perspectives on Anglophone Literature, Taipei, July 2011.

Thesis and Dissertation

Doctoral Dissertation: Ethics of Writing in J. M. Coetzee’s Novels: Literary Potentiality and Writerly Responsibility, National Taiwan Normal University, 2016

Master’s Thesis: Brian Friel’s Politics of Defining Irishness: Irish Modernity in Translations, The Communication Cord and The London Vertigo, National Taiwan Normal University, 2007

Awards

• NTUB Outstanding Teacher Award, Academic Year 2024
• NTUB Outstanding Class Advisor Award, Academic Ye