Specialty and Research Interests

Medieval and Renaissance English Literature

Histories of Love, Marriage, Sex, Psychology, and Medicine

Gender

Early Modern Cultural Studies

Visual Art

Intercultural Theatre

Publications

Journal Articles

"Thou Orphans' Father Art": Shakespeare in Taiwanese and Yue Operas
Shakespeare Yearbook, vol. 17 (forthcoming)

Vision and Revision of Filial Piety: Analogues and Adaptations of King Lear in Chinese Opera
Journal of Theater Studies, vol. 1, no. 1 (January 2008): 253-82

Teaching Othello in Post-Colonial Taiwan
Journal of the Wooden O Symposium, vol. 2 (2002): 116-26

Relational Antifeminism in Sidney's Arcadia
Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, vol. 41, no. 1 (Winter 2001): 25-48

Book Chapters

Macbeth in Chinese Opera
Macbeth: New Critical Essays, ed. Nicholas R. Moschovakis (New York: Routledge, 2008), 276-99

"Ay, So True Love Should Do: It Cannot Speak": The Trafficking of Love Letters in The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Lingua Tsing Hua: A 20th Anniversary Commemorative Anthology (Taipei: Crane, 2003), 17-32

Dissertation

Mimesis of Love: Sir Philip Sidney's "Arcadia"
Ph.D., New York University. Advisor: Leonard Barkan (June 2001)

Scholarly Presentations

Shakespeare's Star-Crossed Lovers in Taiwanese Opera
MRG Colloquium on Asian Performance (Irvine, January 2008)

A Survey on Shakespeare Performances in Taiwan 2007
2007 Conference of the NTU Shakespeare Forum (Taipei, November 2007)

Romeo and Juliet Camped: Two Taiwanese Examples
46th Conference of the Japan Shakespeare Society (Tokyo, October 2007)

"In Thunder, Lightning, or in Rain?": Shakespeare Recontextualized in China and Taiwan
Shakespeare in East Asia Conference at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, April 2007)

"What's in a Name?": Westerner Complex in GreenForest, My Home: A Story of Love and Faith
Annual Conference of the Popular Culture Association (Boston, April 2007)

Westerner Complex in Green Forest, My Home
NTU DFLL Faculty Colloquium (Taipei, January 2007)

Redefining Filial Piety: King Lear in Chinese Opera
2006 Conference of the NTU Shakespeare Forum (Taipei, October 2006)

愛慾嗔癡鏡中觀：戲說李爾
Love, Desire, Anger, and Folly: Lear's Looking Glass
Legend Twenty Lecture Series (Taipei, September 2006)

Truth via Falsehood: Hilliard's Defense of Limning
Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies (Irvine, April 2006)

Sidney's Presence in Hilliard's Arte of Limning
Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (San Francisco, April 2006)

Macbeth in Chinese Opera
Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Performance, ATHE (San Francisco, July 2005)

Assimilation, Transfiguration, and Registration: Shakespeare in Taiwanese and Yue Operas
Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association (Philadelphia, December 2004)

A Defence of Shakespeare: Taiwan Politics
2004 NTU Shakespeare Forum (Taipei, December 2004)

Deare Eyes: Visual Investment in Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (New York, April 2004)

Painting Ghost and Spirit in Natural Colors: The Kingdom of Desire, a Chinese Opera Adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth
Annual Conference of the Group of Early Modern Cultural Studies (Newport Beach, October 2003)

Teaching Othello in Post-Colonial Taiwan
Wooden O Symposium, Utah Shakespearean Festival (Cedar City, August 2002)

Marvel of Little Good and No Consequence: Queen Elizabeth in The Lady of May
Annual Conference of the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society (Los Angeles, April 2002)

Origins of Gender in the West, Part I: Christianity
Gest lecture, Introduction to Gender Studies, General Education Course, Tsing Hua University (Hsinchu, March 2002)

Origins of Gender in the West, Part II: Medicine and Anatomy
Guest lecture, Introduction to Gender Studies, General Education Course, Tsing Hua University (Hsinchu, March 2002)

The Medical Tradition of Eros
FLL Annual Scholarly Talk, National Tsing Hua University (Hsinchu, November 2001)

Reversing Homer and Petrarch: An Intertextual Reading of Sidney's Helen in? the New Arcadia
Panel Organizer and Panelist
Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies (Stanford, April 2001)

Woman-Free: Euarchus and the Fashioning of Masculinity in Sidney's Arcadia
Annual Meeting of the Group of Early Modern Cultural Studies (Newport, November 1998)

The Polarization of Phantasia and the Disembodiment of Love: Renaissance Rhetoric of Love
Annual Meeting of the Group of Early Modern Cultural Studies (Pittsburgh, November 1996)

Recent and Current Projects

Journey into East: Chinese Shakespeares (NTU Group Project 2006-2010)

Taiwan Literature and Culture: Dialogues with the World (NTU Group Project 2006-2010)

Shakespeare in Chinese Opera: A Generic Approach (NSC Research Grant Project, 2005-2006)

Renaissance Perspective: Aesthetics, Poetics, and the Theatre (NSC Research Grant Project, 2003-2005)

Woman, Love, and Text: Three Studies in Renaissance England (NSC Research Grant Project, 2002-2003)

Professional Services

Coordinator
NTU Shakespeare Forum (2006-present)

Organizer
2007 Conference of the NTU Shakespeare Forum (Taipei, November 2007)
2006 Conference of the NTU Shakespeare Forum (Taipei, October 2006)

Commentator
Session II, 2006 Conference on Taiwan Modern Theatre (Taipei, October 2006)

Presider
Sidney at Kalamazoo 2001, Session II, International Congress on Medieval Studies
(Kalamazoo, May 2001)

Panel Organizer
Transplantation and Transformation of Petrarchan Poetic in Renaissance England
Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies (Stanford, April 2001)