WENCHI LIN
 
English Department         
National Central University
Chung-li, Taiwan
Tel #: 886-3-426-7171 
Fax #: 886-3-426-3027
 
7th Floor, #8, Lane 185
Chian-kang Rd., Taipei, Taiwan
Tel & Fax #: 886-2-528-2570
E. Mail Address : wenchi@sparc20.ncu.edu.tw

POSITIONS HELD 
1993-       Associate Professor
                      English Department, National Central University 
                Head of  Audio-Visual Department 
                      Library of National Central University 
1996-      Committee Member 
                      Research Committee of the National Film Archive, Taiwan 
1996        Committee Member
                      Second Selecting Committee of  Recommended Books in Chinese Translation,
                      Government Information Office. 


EDUCATION: 
Ph.D. Degree         Graduate Program in Comparative Literature 
(1993)                      SUNY-Stony Brook, USA
                                Dissertation:
                                Performance of Social Identity in Sister Carrie, A Passage to India, 
                                The Lover, and A City of Sadness.   
B. A. Degree          Department of English and American Languages and
(1985)                      Literature, National Central University 


PUBLICATIONS 
A.  Articles 
"The Social Content of Hsiao-hsien Hou's Realism" (Forthcoming in the Special Issue for the Golden Horse Festival, 1996; in Chinese.)
"Women's History and (Anti)National Allegory in Ruan Ling-Yu." (Presented in the First InternationalConference on Mandarin Cinema, Hong Kong, September 1996; in Chinese.)
"Hybrid Rose, Hybrid China: Gender and National Parody in Red Rose and White Rose."  Hsien-cheng Liu Ed. Chinese Cinemas: History, Culture and Representation.  (Proceedings of the Conference on the Future of Cinema and Cultural Change in Taiwan, China and Hong Kong).  Taipei: Society for Chinese Cinema Studies, 1996.  143-58.  (In Chinese.)
 "The Representation of Taipei in Taiwanese Films."  Ru-Xio Chen and Jin-Fong Liao Eds.  Focus on Taipei Through Cinema: 1950-1990.  Taipei: Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee, 1995.  78-90.  (In Chinese.)
"Law and (Anti)Colonialism in A Passage to India."  Tamkang Review.  25.3-4 (1995): 362-375.
"Colonialism and Law in A Passage to India: Reflections on Some Post-Colonial Theories."  Chung Wai Literary Monthly. 24.3(1995): 61-78.  (In Chinese.)
"The Performance of Race in A Passage to India."  Journal of Humanities East/West. 13(1995): 127-38.  (In Chinese.)
"Home-coming, Ancestor-nation, and the Two-two-eight Incident: the History and Nationality of Taiwan in A City of Sadness."  Con-Temporary 106(1995): 94-109.  (In Chinese.)
"Performance, History, and Living: The Representation of National Identity in Farewell to My Concubine and The Master Puppeteer."  Chung Wai Literary Monthly 23.1(1994): 139-56.  (In Chinese)
"Commodity, Performance, and Social Identity in Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie."  Journal of Humanities East/West 12(1994): 101-130.

B.  Chinese Translations
Film as Social Practice.  (Forthcoming, Taipei: Yuan-liu P)
 John Folwes: A Reader.  (Co-trans. with Kate Chiwen Liu)  Taipei: Kuang-fu, 1987.

C.  Review Essays 
"Buddha Bless America's Comment on  the American Cultural Imperialism."  (Forthcoming in Chung Wai Literary Monthly; in Chinese.)
"Adjuster: Postmodern Issues Exposed by the Fire."  Imagekeeper Monthly.  73(1996): 70-71.  (In Chinese.)
"Candlelight in the High Mountain: Super Citizen, A Significant Film to  Taiwan."  The Liberty Times.  May 15 & 16, 1996 (34).  (In Chinese.)
"Misreading Lacan: A Comment on Chao-yang Liao's 'Civilized Barbarianism: Androgyny and the Notion of Oppression in Eileen Chang's  Scholarship."  (Presented in the International Conference on Eileen Chang, Taipei, May 1996; in Chinese.)
 "A Museum of Her Own: A Review on Margaret's Museum."  China Times.  April 21, 1996.  43.  (In Chinese.)
"A Comment on Rufus Cook's 'Maintaining the Past: Cultural Adaptation in Contemporary Immigrant Writers'."  (Presented in The Sixth Annual Conference on English and American Literature, December 23, 1995, Taipei; in Chinese.)


INVITED LECTURES 
1996    "The Representation of Homosexuality in Hong Kong Mainstream Cinema."  Delivered  in New
            Geography of Desire: Conference on Literature, Culture, and Sexual Orientation.  April 20, 1996, Taipei.
1996    "Realism in Hsiao-hsien Hou's Early Films."  Delivered in the College of Liberal Arts, National Taiwan
            University.  April 10, 1996. 
1995    "The Postmodern Scenes and Postcolonial Implications in Hong Kong Films of the Nineties."
            Delivered in the English Department and Graduate Program, National Chong-Hsing University, 
            October 10, 1995. 
1995    "The Translation of Feminism."  Delivered in  Workshop on Feminism and the Contemporary Literary
            Studies in Taiwan.  June 1995, Taipei.

HONORS 
1993    Mildred and Herbert Weisinger Dissertation Fellowship, SUNY at Stony Brook.
1994    National Science Council Scholarship for New Teaching Scholars.
1995    National Science Council Research Award.
1996    National Science Council Research Project Grant.