Chia-Ju Chang
Professor and Department Chairperson
Modern Languages and Literatures
Location: 4107 Boylan Hall
Phone: 718.951.5000 x6635
Fax: 718.951.4235
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Born in Taiwan, Chang earned a B.A. in English from Tamkang University. After college, she entered MGSA at Rutgers and completed her MFA in visual arts. Then, also at Rutgers, she earned her Ph.D. degree in Comparative Literature in 2004. She has taught at the University of Florida (Gainesville), Trinity University, and Washington & Lee University. Her first book, Global Imagination of Ecological Communities (2013), won the 2013 Bureau of Jiangsu Province Journalism and Publication award. She edited Chinese Environmental Humanities: Environing at the Margins (2019) and co-edited three volumes: Ecocriticism in Taiwan: Identity, Environment and the Arts (2016), Special Issue on Animal Writing: Taiwan's Dongwu Shuxie in Taiwan Literature, and Heart of the Animals (2020). Professor Chang has served as an executive council of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE). She was the Kiriyama Professor in the Asia Pacific Center at the University of San Francisco, 2016.
Education:
Ph.D., Rutgers University - New Brunswick - 2004 (Literature, Comparative)
M.F.A., Rutgers University - New Brunswick - 1995 (Painting)
Areas of Expertise:
Research interests:
"Environmental/eco humanities" with a strong commitment to Chinese and Buddhist ecocriticism, ecocinema and multispecies studies, the Anthropocene Studies.
Books and Publications
"多物種研究、多物種民族誌與生態批評理論的遭逢",《生態批評研究》,程相占編,人民出版社。(Translation: "Encountering Multispecies Studies, Multispecies Ethnography and Ecocritical Theories," Ecocriticism Studies, Edited by Xiangzhan Cheng, Remin Publisher, Beijing. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2022
"Scapegoating in Times of Pan-Epidemic: Mimesis, Identity Crisis, and the Buddhist Phármakon." Handbook for Medical and Environmental Humanities. Co-edited by Slovic, S, Rangarajan, S. and Sarveswaran, V. London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 223-234.
(Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2022
"The Conundrum of Inaction: Nihilism in Don?t Look Up"
Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities, Hot Takes: February 2022: http://www.resiliencejournal.org/hot-takes-february-2022/?fbclid=IwAR0S3CfMfgFEf5cLiPMsenoCRZ61vCg9W38FmRT1wR4_jK-oPYWJ8syhBco (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2022
《南泉斬貓的生態啟示:瘟疫下的模仿暴力和禪宗非二元理性的藥方》(上),《人生雜誌》,法鼓山,五月。"The Ecological Lesson from 'Nansen Kills the Cat,'" Life Magazine, Dharma Drum Publishing House. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2022
"'霧霾人生':穹頂之下的生命反思",《中國現代文學》,第36期,2020年12月7-28頁。 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2020
"Life outside the Dome: The Possibility of Aerophilia in the Anthropocene," Prism, Vol. 18, no. 1. Duke University. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2020
"Building a Post-Industrial Shangri-La: Lu Shuyuan, Ecocriticism, and Tao Yuanming's "Peach-Blossom Spring." Ed. Chia-ju Chang. Chinese Environmental Humanities: Practices at the Margins. Palgrave Macmillan. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2019
"Frankenstein's Roaming Spectre: Under the Dome and Formosa vs. Formosa." Journal of Modern Chinese Languages and Literatures (JMCLC), Special Issue on "China on the Move: Travel, Exile, and Migration in Chinese Literature and Film of the 20th Century." (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2019
"Gone Stray: A Journey of Gou Mama and their Fur-Kids." Eds. Atsuko Matsuoka and John Sorenson. Critical Animal Studies: Towards Trans-species Social Justice. McGill-Queen's University Press. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2019
"In Search of a Post-Industrial Shangri-la: China's Ecocriticism, Lu Shuyuan, and Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Spring." Ed. Chia-ju Chang. Chinese Environmental Humanities: Imagining Huanjing as a Critical Concept. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2019
"Introductory Chapter." Ed. Chia-ju Chang. Chinese Environmental Humanities: Imagining Huanjing as a Critical Concept. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2019
"Multispecies Poetics and Affect: Huang Hsin-yao's Nimbus and Taivalu as Case Studies of Pacific Rim Climate Change Doc-Ethnography." Asian Cinema. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2019
"Teaching the Environmental Humanities International Perspectives and Practices," Environmental Humanities 11:2 (November 2019) (Co-authors: Emily O'Gorman, Thom Van Dooren et al. 21 scholars)
(Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2019
"The Missing View in Global Post-Secular Cinema: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon as a Visual Kōan/Gong'an." Paragraph Journal, Special Issue: "Critical Theory, Religion and Film."
Vol. 42 Issue 3, 370-386.
(Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2019
"Transcendental Wisdom, Kōan, and Cinema in the Global Post-Secular Age: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon as a Case Study." Paragraph Journal, Special Issue on "Critical Theory, Religion and Film." (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2019
[J] "Wumai rensheng: Qiongding zhi xia de shengming fansi" ("Smog Life: Reflection of Life under the Dome" ; "'霧霾人生':穹頂之下的生命反思"),《中國現代文學》, no. 36, 7-28, Taiwan. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2019
Chinese Environmental Humanities: Practices at the Margins. Ed. Chia-ju Chang. London: Palgrave Macmillan. (forthcoming) (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2019
Heart of the Animals: Contemporary Critical Animal Studies Anthology [Dongwu zhi xin: Dangdai yanjiu duben 《動物之心》(大專院校動物研究教科書)]. Co-Edited with Huei-chu Chu. Tai-chung: National Chung Hsing University Publisher. (Chinese) (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2019
"Animal Writing: Taiwan's Dongwu shuxie." Ed. Chia-ju Chang. Special Issue on Animal Writing in Taiwan Literature. Taiwan Literature: English Translation Series 41, January. Taipei: National Taiwan University Press, 2018. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2018
Special Issue on Animal Writing in Taiwan Literature. Taiwan Literature: English Translation Series 41, January. Taipei: National Taiwan University Press, 2018. (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2018
"Different Ways of Thinking about Garbage and Animals: The India Documentary The Plastic Cow as a Case Study" ["Sikao laji dongwu de jizhong fangshi: Yindu jilupian Sujiao niu weili"]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art (China) 4, 203-213. China. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2017
"Global Animal Capital and Garbage Animal: Documentary Redemption and Hope." Eds. Sheldon Lu and Song Hwee Lim, Journal of Chinese Cinema, 2017. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2017
"Poisoned Sky: Smog Slow Violence and Aesthetic Strategies" ["Zhebi de tiankong: Taiwan kongwu jilupian yu wumai manbaoli meixue celue"]. Essays on Chinese Ecocinema (China). Eds. Sheldon Lu and Haomin Gong, Wuhan University Press. 172-87. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2017
"The Potentials and Limitations of Ethical Discourse of Material Ecocriticism" ["Wuzhi shengtai piping zhong daode lilun lunshu de kennengxing yu juxian"]. Dongyue Tribune (China) 1, 96-104. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2017
"Animal Incorporated: From Cruel Gastro-Aesthetics to Vegetarian Ethics of Taste." ISLE, 23.3, 2016, 526-547. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2016
"The Dark, Ambient Ethico-poetics of the South: Indra Sinha's Animal's People? <環氛詩學中不能承受之賤:論印度作家辛哈的《據說,我曾經是人類》>.《思逸》/ Siyi: Critical Stimulations from Drifting Minds, ed. Kiu-wai Chu, vol.3, February, 2016. Hong kong. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2016
"Wasted Humans and Garbaged Animals: Deadly Transcorporeality and Documentary Activism." Ecodocumentaries: Critical Essays. Eds. Rayson Alex and Susan Deborah, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, 119-138. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2016
Ecocriticism in Taiwan: Identities, Environment and the Arts, eds. Chia-ju Chang and Scott Slovic, Lexington Books, 2016. (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2016
"書寫生命:評《擬造新地球:當代台灣自然書寫》?, 《中外文學》第44卷第四期 / Chung-wai Literary Monthly 44(4), 12/2015, Taiwan University (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2015
"Garbage Animals: A Tale of Modernity, Capitalism and the Emergence of Dog Mothers." Critical Animal Studies. Eds. John Sorenson and Atsuko Matsuoka. McGill-Queen's University Press. Expected 2015. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2014
"Ruminating on Waste and Documentary Activism." Asian Ecological Documentaries (tentative title). Ed. Rayson Alex. The Orient Blackswan. Expected in 2015. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2014
"傾聽大地萬物:琳達‧荷根的生平與作品介紹." Journal of World Literature, March. Taipei, Taiwan. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2013
"從《美女廚房》到《三花》:淺談華人動物虐待與動物意識覺醒." Journal of World Literature, March. Taipei, Taiwan. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2013
"无我影艺里的生态潜涵:南韩《达摩为何东来》公案电影为例." 山东师范大学学报,Spring. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2013
"海瑟的生態世界主義論述",生態美學與生態批評通訊 Newsletter on Ecoaesthetics and Ecocriticism, 2. (山東大學文藝美學研究中心) (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2013
"辛哈小说《据说我曾经是人类》:南方后殖民动物书写策略." 鄱阳湖2013年05期. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2013
<食色與動物>, Journal of CTLA. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2013
全球生态社区想象:中西生态批评实践. 苏州大学出版社. (The Global Imagination of Ecological Communities: Western and Chinese Ecocritical Praxis. Jiangsu University Press, China) (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2013
"台北的野狗與狗媽媽社會現象:一個生態女性關懷論述、實踐與批判," 生態美學與生態普遍通訊, 2012年第十期. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2012
"臺北的狗媽媽與野狗:談狗媽媽運動和都市空間裡的性別與動物歧視." Voice of Animals, August (Taiwan). (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2012
"The Art of Self-emptying and Ecological Integration: Bae Yong-kyun's Why Has Bodhidharma Left for the East as a Case Study." Screening Nature. Berghah Books. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2012
"Trans-species Care: Taiwan's Feral Dogs and Dog Mother Activism." International Journal of Humanities and Social Science 2.3, January. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2012
Poetry translation, four poems by Anannya Dasgupta. Poetry Sky 29, Spring. http://poetrysky.com/quarterly/29/gasgupta.html. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2012
Poetry translation, four poems by Daniella Gioseffi. Four poems, Poetry Sky, Fall/Winter 2012, 《詩天空》,第31期:http://www.poetrysky.com/quarterly/31/toc.html (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2012
Poetry translation, four poems by Susan Hawthorne. Animals' Voice of Taiwan, April. http://www.lca.org.tw/avot/2138. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2012
Poetry translation, two poems by Shenchong Lai. Poetry Sky 29, Spring. http://poetrysky.com/quarterly/29/laixianzong.html. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2012
"Cinematic Ecology and Emptiness: A Chan Pedagogical Approach to Film" [电影里的生态与空观:以禅宗方式来教电影[. Journal of Chinese Language Teaching and Research, Summer. CTLA-GNY. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2011
Poetry Translation, "Train Passing through Nan'ao?Reminiscing Kexiao," by Liu Kexiang. Poetry Sky Journal. http://www.poetrysky.com/quarterly/28/liukexiang.html. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2011
Poetry translation: "After the Eighth Naphtha Cracker Industrial Park," by Liu Kexiang. ISLE (Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment). (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2011
"'I am insubstantial in the universe. But in the universe, there is nothing which is not me': Toward a Chan Ecocriticism, Ecology and Experience of Film." ISLE (Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment). (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2010
"An Eco-Mystery in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon: Film Viewing from a Chan Gong'an Perspective. Journal of Jiangxu University (in Chinese). (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2010
"Teacher Talk." Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy 21.1, Spring/Summer. Special issue on "Teaching Earth." (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2010
"Ang Lee." Encyclopedia of Modern China, Volume 4. (Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons). (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2009
"Putting Back the Animals: Ecological-Feminist Discourse and Woman-Animal Meme. Contemporary Chinese and Taiwanese Cultural Imagination." Hong Kong University Press. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2009
"Featuring Antelope: Subalternity, Ethnicity, and Aesthetics in Lu Chuan's Kekexili." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2007
"Chinese Odyssey: Innovative Chinese Courseware, Vol.1." NECTFL Review 59, Fall/Winter. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2006
"Tell It Like It Is! Natural Chinese for Advanced Learners." NECTFL Review 58, Spring/Summer. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2006
"Fault-lines in East Coast America." Performing Arts Review, August: 73-75 (Taiwan, in Chinese). (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2005
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Mellon Transfer Student Research Program, BC. (Grants and Fellowships) 2019
Ministry of Education, Taiwan, grant, for "Eco-documentary Film Festival" and a workshop for Dec. 16-17. (Grants and Fellowships) 2014
《全球环境想象:中西生态批评实践》(Global Imagination of Ecological Communities) won the Jiangsu Province Journalist and Publishing Bureau (江苏省新闻出版局)2013 Good Book Award (under social science category). (Awards and Honors) 2013
New Faculty Development Grant. $592. (Awards and Honors) 2011
New Faculty Development Grant. $517.76. (Awards and Honors) 2010
Travel Grant. $353. (Awards and Honors) 2010
New Faculty Development Grant. $350. (Awards and Honors) 2009
Travel Grant. $870.87. (Awards and Honors) 2009
New Faculty Development Grant. $338.96. (Awards and Honors) 2008
PSC-CUNY grant. $2,500. (Awards and Honors) 2008
Travel Grant. $940. (Awards and Honors) 2008
Curriculum and Faculty Development Grant, Association of the South Environmental
Initiative. $1,500. (Awards and Honors) 2007
Research Activities
Mentoring Mellon Undergraduate Transfer Students 2022
"关于中西方生态文化思想的对话" (Dialogue on the Chinese-Western Ecological Cultural Thoughts),鲁樞元《生态时代的文化反思》(A Cultural Reflection at the Age of Ecology), 北京:东方出版社(Feoso Publishing). Originally published at 《中州大学学报》. 2020
Internal Reviewer for PSC-CUNY Research Award 2017
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"狗子無佛性:人類世末世下的意義強迫症、虛無恐懼再現與空性療癒." 2022 心靈環保;跨領域對話學術研討會,6/30/2022 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2022
"Compassions at the Endtime: Western Nihilism in Apocalyptic Film and Zen Pharmakon in the Anthropocene," Stanford-Lingnan Symposium: Eco-Writing in an Age of (Un)Natural Crisis, 2/25/2022
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2022
Baizhang's Wild Fox: Gong'an as Eco-Therapy for the Anthropocene Crisis. "The Dharma-Ending Age: The Climate Crisis through the Lens of Buddhist Eschatology, Past and Present." University of British Columbia, From the Ground Up: Buddhism and East Asian Religions, October 7-9, 2022 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2022
"「霧霾人生」:穹頂之下的生命反思" ,亞美文學的環境研究轉向工作坊,中興大學人社中心,11/18/2021. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2021
"人類世下人類文明的終結與解放:批判理論、生態批評與佛教研究跨學科探索", 法鼓論壇:療癒-人文-佛法, 中山文院, 11/26/2021.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2021
"契心蝶道: 探索生態唯識書寫的美學與實踐",中華民國英美文學學會,10/15/2021. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2021
"寒山東行: 寒巌、觀寒禪師與當代美國黃蘗宗傳承","對話與交流:佛教禪修研究工作坊 ", 法鼓學院,10/16/2021
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2021
"疫情下的替罪羊:身份认同危机与佛教解方","后疫情时代的生态美学发展",山东大学,August 28-29, 2021.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2021
"香嚴上樹:人類世下批判理論、生態批評與佛教研究跨學科探索",法鼓學院,11/24/2021.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2021
"Women in the Global Pandemic Media Imagination: Mimetic Desire, Scapegoat, and Transcendence", Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Zurich, 9/20/2021
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2021
"Buddhist Pharmakon: Mimetic Problems and Solutions in Time of the Pan-Epidemic Anthropocene," Critical Thinking in a Time of Pandemic: COVID-19 and Its Ramifications, National Chung Hsing University, September 18, 2020. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2020
"Life outside the Dome: The Possibility of Aerophilia in the Anthropocene," Speaker Series at the Centre for Culture and Ecology at Durham University, UK, October 9, 2020. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2020
"The Missing View in Global Post-Secular Cinema: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon as a Visual Gong'an." National Taipei University, Taiwan, July 3, 2020. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2020
"Life outside the Dome: The Possibility of Aerophilia in the Anthropocene," Decentering the Anthropocene Workshop: Approaches to the Anthropocene in Chinese and Japanese literature and film, University of Vienna, November 2, 2019. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2019
Keynote Speaker, Madras Christian College, Tamil Nadu, India. "The Practice of Environing at the Periphery: Migration as a Critical Concept." Keynote presentation for the international conference Ecological Migrations and Transcultural Ethics. March 22, 2019, India. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019
National Central Library, Taiwan. "Mountain and River at an End." Speech for the "Walking with Nature - Savoring Western Eco-Literature" series. January 6.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019
"Animal Activists in Animal Advocacy Documentary: Altruism, Redemption, or Therapy? " Talk for Taiwan Animal Equality Association. December 12.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
"Frankenstein's Roaming Spectre: Ko Chin-Yuan's Formosa vs. Formosa as a Case Study." International Workshop on Environmental Humanities in Asia: Ecological Crisis and Cultural Responses. Chinese University of Hong Kong, April 10-12. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2018
"On Buddhist Eudaimonia: The Importance of Spiritual Security, Practice and Eco-Buddhist Sangha" [Fojiao meihao shenghuo lunshu: jingshen anquangan, xiuxing, shengtai sengtuan shequ jiangou de zhongyaoxing]. Presentation for the conference, Buddhism and Ecology, Huanghe Science and Technology College, Zhengzhou and Wanshan Temple, Mt. Lu, China. January 4. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2018
National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan. "Under the Dome: Smog Cultural Studies and Migration Studies." Keynote presentation for the international conference Energy, Ecology, and the Culture of Cities. November 23. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
"Animal Advocacy Documentaries and the Activists." Presentation for Nanjing University, Nanjing, China. May 25. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
"Capitalism's Corporal/Corporate Waste: Documentary Redemption and Hope." Presentation for Shanghai Foreign Language University, Shanghai, China. June 8. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
"Documentary Redemption and Hope: Twelve Nights and the Lost Sea." Presentation for Taiwan Lecture Series, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. Febuary 8. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
"Imagination of Indigineity in Contemporary Taiwan Animal Writing." Presentation for National Tai-tung Univesrity, Taiwan. December 20. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
"Multispecies Poetics and Affect: Huang Hsin-yao's Nimbus and Taivalu as Case Studies of Pacific Rim Climate Change Doc-Ethnography." Presentation for Taiwan Lecture Series, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. Febuary 6. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
"Nature Writing, Ecocriticism and Translation Studies." Presentation for National Taiwan Univesrity, Taipei, Taiwan. July 1. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
Dr. K.N. Modi University, Jaipur, India. "Asia's Smog Talk: Atmospheric Profanity, Artistic Grotesquery, and a Call for Asian Spiritual, Vitalist Alternatives." Keynote presentation for the international conference, Environmental Justice: Culture, Resistance and Ethics. March 24-25. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
"想像福爾摩沙:台灣生態批評論文集概介"「台灣研究在東亞」,中興大學台灣研究所,1/15/2016 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016
"'Morality at the Tip of the Tongue': Toward Care-based Gourmandism." Presentation for Huadong Normal University, Shanghai, China. June 3. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016
"From Polar Bear to Blue Sky: Toward Chinese Comparative Smog Cultural Ecocriticism." Presentation for Global Asia Initiative, Duke University, Durham, NC. April 5. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2016
"Slow Violence and its Effect: Cinematic Micro-Shock and Scott Chi's Poisoned Sky." Presentation for University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA. February 6. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016
"Smog Naturecultural Phenomena in China." Public lecture, University of San Francisco, May 4. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016
"Smog-Doc: Blue Sky Ecocriticism." Contextualizing Asian Ecocinema: Past and Future. The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. May 27-28. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2016
"The Plastic Cow and Garbage Sheep: Different Ways of Thinking about Animals." A talk series at Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. June 15. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016
"Under the Dome: Chinese Smog Narrative and Imagination." A talk series at Beijing Normal University, Beijing China. June 14. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016
"阿河的眼淚:生態思潮論述與實踐?,『臺灣人文學社理論營』." Theory Camp of Taiwan Humanities Society. Jan. 23. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
"Animal Incorporated: From Cruel Gastro-Aesthetics to Vegetarian Ethics of Taste." Presentation for National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, October 1. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
"生命中不能承受之。。。" Hua-fan University. Taiwan. Dec. 15. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"生態電影/電影生態:跨國生態電影批評語境下的" 'Chinese Ecocinema.'? (Ecology of Cinema, Cinematic Ecology: Chinese Ecocinema in the Context of Transnational Ecocinematic Crticism). National Chung-hsing University, Graduate Program of Taiwan Studies. Tai-chung, Taiwan, June 6. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"Eco-poetics of Upstream Color: Ambience, Stream Consciousness and Transcorporeality." English Department, National Chung-hsing University. Tai-chung, Taiwan, June 6. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"Ruminating on Garbage: Environmental Illness in Indian Documentaries." National Social Science Council lecture series. Hua-fan University. New Taipei City, Taiwan, June 11. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"Ruminating on Garbage: Environmental Illness in The Plastic Cow." Sixth Tamkang International Conference on Ecological Discourse. Tamkang University. Taiwan. Dec. 19. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
"The Past, Present and Future of Roosevelt Island." The 5th Island Ecologies Workshop. National Taiwan Normal University. Taiwan, June 29. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"Women's Animal Care and Eco-Urban Practice in Contemporary Taiwan." Tenth Annual International Association for the Study of Environment, Space, and Place Conference. California Institute of the Arts. April 27. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
Organizer/discussant, "Ecocriticism in Development." English Department, Tamkang University. New Taipei City, Taiwan, July 1. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
"從湖濱散記到藍色彈珠: 烏蘇拉." 海瑟生態世界主義之挑戰.("From Walden to Blue Marble: Ursula Heise's Eco-cosmopolitanism." Symposium: World Literature and Visual Studies. Tamkang University, June 6. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
"文学何用?"("Literature...What Is It good For?"). Taipei University, Taiwan, June 29. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
"活在當下禪宗生態電影詮釋試探"("Living in the Moment: Eco-Zennist Interpretation of Film")經典詮釋與文化傳播學術研討會(Classical Hermeneutics and Cultural Dissemination Conference). Taipei, Taiwan, Dec. 20. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
「救鯊行動」:生態紀錄片的生態世界主義想像與全球正義, 淡江大學英文系. Jan. 5. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
"Eco-translatology: An Ecocritical Critique." Tamkang University. June 3. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
"Literature...What Is It Good For?" Hua-fan University. Taipei, Taiwan, June 4. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
「四海一家」:二十一世紀行星為單位的生態世界主義想像, 「全球華語文化」國際研討會. ACCL Global Sinophonia Conference. Dec. 19. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012
"Animals Behind the Scenes: Teaching Contemporary Animal Literature and Animal Cultural Studies in U.S. colleges." CTLA-GNY. Rutgers University. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
"Classical Cultures: Classical China," Core Conference, Brooklyn College, June 1. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
"Reading Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon as a Gong'an (koan) Film." Fifth Tamkang International Conference on Ecological Discourse. / 亞太生態論述:反思現代,重回自然?. Tamkang University. Taiwan. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
"Teaching Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon in Chinese Culture or Film Course." CLTA-GNY 2010 Annual Conference & 8th New York International Conference on Teaching Chinese. Pace University. New York. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
Chinese Language Teachers Association of Great New York, CLTA-GNY 2010 Annual Conference & 8th New York International Conference on Teaching Chinese. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
"從"動物倡導"文藝批評視野看陸川的《可可西里》" Roundtable on Transforming Eco-cannons. Taipei University. Taipei, Taiwan. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2009
"The Cypress in the Front Yard: Film Practice as Spiritual Practice as Eco-aesthetic Practice." International Conference on Ecological Aesthetics and Environmental Aesthetics in Global Perspective. Shandong University. China. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
"Ecology of Reading: Embracing Politics of the Shallow and Aesthetics of the Deep in Lu Chuan's Kekexili." Fourth Tamkang International Conference on Ecological Discourse. 織理文字與世界:生態批評、危機與再現, Tamkang University. Taiwan. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
"Ecology of Reading: Embracing Politics of the Shallow and Aesthetics of the Deep in Lu Chuan's Kekexili." International Conference on Beyond Thoreau: American and International Response to Nature. Tsinghua University. China. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
"Strategies of Co-writing Animals, Children and Women: Li Ang's Shafu and Wang Xiaodi's Mofa Ama." Taidong University. Taiwan. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008
"Putting Back the Animals: Woman-Animal Configurations in Contemporary Chinese Women's Fiction and Animation." ASLE / Animal Eyes: Seeing With and Through the Eyes of Animals. University of Connecticut, Spartanburg, S.C. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007
"Ten Thousand Things Are As They Are, or Imagining Intimacy: From the Erotic to Interbeing to Emptiness to the World." ACCL / Ecocriticism II. Sichuan University. Chengdu, China. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007
"Roach Lady, Mermaid, Peony and Their Lovers: An Environmental-Feminist Reading of Urban Topophobia in Two Chinese Language Films." CEA / Identity East and West. San Antonio, Texas. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006
"Whose Story of Survival? A Comparative Study on the Cinematic Narratives of the Endangered Animals and Their Human Guardians." ACLA / Animal Other in Literature, the Arts and Culture Session." Princeton, N.J. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006
"Whose Story of Survival? A Comparative Study on the Narratives of Endangered Animals and Their Human Guardians." ALSC / Literature and Environment. San Francisco. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006
"Masculine (Re)Vision of the Shakti Power in the 1980s Taiwan: Hou Chün-ming's Woodblock Prints." Engendering Community and Diversity. University of La Verne. Louisiana. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2005
"Strange Women in Strange Worlds: Urban Topophobia in Chinese-language Speaking Films." SWCAS / Asian Cinema Session. Denton, Texas. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2005
"The Haunting Voice of Mother Earth: An Eco-feminist Reading of Transnational Chinese Cinema." RMMLA / Ecocriticism Session. Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2005
"Return of the Snake Goddess? Toward an Eco-feminist Reading in Chinese Cinema." 13th Annual Graduate Student Conference on East Asia. Columbia University. New York. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2004
"The Ambivalent Snake in Dojooji Monogatari." Teaching Mythology, Theorizing Mythology. Rutgers University. New Brunswick, N.J. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1999
"Peter Stroud's Color-field Painting and Chinese Ch'an Art." 6th Comparative Literature Annual Conference. Rutgers University. New Brunswick, N.J. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1997
Professional Leadership
Respondent for Simon Estok talk, "Covid-19 and the Ecophobic Reflex," Dec. 3. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2021
International Liaison, Association for the Studies of Literature and Environment (2018-present) (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2020
Member of ASLE Translation Grants Committee (2013- 2019) (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2019
P&T committee, Fall 2018-present (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2019
"Environmental Challenges in Contemporary Asian Societies." University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA. March 11. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2016
"Garbage and Landfill in Asian Documentary Films." University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA. February 25 (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2016
Member, Subvention Grant Committee, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2013
Member, Translation Grant Committee, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2013
Search Committee Member for the Chair of Modern Languages and Literatures Department, Fall 2013-Spring 2014 (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2013
Supervisor for Association of Animal Equal Rights Promotion in Taiwan. 擔任理監事, 台灣動物平權促進會,臺灣. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2013
Member, ASLE Travel Awards Selection Committee. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2011
Member, Campus Planning Committee, fall 2011-present. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2011
Departmental secretary, Modern Languages and Literatures, 2010-present. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2010
Member, Core Curriculum Committee, 2010-present. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2010
Member, Modern Languages and Literatures Grade Appeal Committee. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2010
Executive officer, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, 2009-11. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2009
Pedagogical Achievements
Completed the Preparation for Teaching Online: A Foundational Workshop for CUNY Faculty," May 28. 2014
Community Activities
Editorial Board, Gnosis Journal: An International Journal of English Language and Literature), India 2019
Ph.D Dissertation External Appraiser, Toronto University. 2018
Other Professional Activities
鲁樞元和张嘉如,"关于中西方生态文化思想的对话",《中州大学学报》第36
卷,第一期,2019年2月,第1-16页。
2019
Convener and Chair, "Chinese Eco-Civilization, Eco-Cultures, and Literary and Aesthetic
Imagination," The 13th ASLE Biennial Conference: Paradise on Fire. University of California, Davis, June 26-30.
2019
Convener, Asian Ecocriticism Interest Group, The 12th ASLE Biennial Conference Rust/Resistance: Works of Recovery. Wayne State University, Detroit, June 22. 2017
Discussant, "Global Concern, Local Solutions: Community, Development, and Ecopolitics in East Asia." Asia-in-Asia conference / Association for Asian Studies. "Asia in Motion: Ideas, Institutions, Identities." Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, June 22-24. 2017
Respondent, International Ecodocumentary Workshop, Research Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences. National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, December 17. 2014
Co-editor, "Ecocriticism" column, Journal of Jiangsu University, 2009-present. 2009
Convener and Chair, "On (Not) Eating Animals." The 9th ASLE Biennial Conference: "Species, Space and the Imagination of the Global." Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, June 21-26. 2009