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JUSTIN M. HEWITSON
Associate Professor
Justin M. Hewitson is an Associate Professor in the Education Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, National Yang-Ming University. He teaches comparative literature/philosophy that follows his research into ancient and contemporary Indo-Sino-Western thought. He analyzes original texts composed in Sanskrit, Mandarin, Dutch, and English. His published essays and forthcoming book chapters cover Husserl’s Phenomenology and P.R. Sarkar’s Tantra (Comparative and Continental Philosophy), American Transcendentalism and Romanticism (Wenshan Review), Indian spirituality and mediating suffering in Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost (Comparative Literature and Culture), the history of Śiva Tantra (Palgrave Macmillan), and religious Pragmatism in the Peterson-Žižek debate (Palgrave Macmillan). He is currently translating Sanskrit hymns from the Ṛg̟ Veda and the Mandarin Guodian Chu Slips for a paper on the Eastern origins of Idealism. This will be followed by an essay analyzing Tantric and Buddhist objects of meditation.
PARAIC FINNERTY
Associate Head
Páraic Finnerty is Reader in English and American Literature and Associate Head (R&I) of the School of Area Studies, History, Politics, and Literature, University of Portsmouth. He is the author of Emily Dickinson’s Shakespeare (2006), co-author of Victorian Celebrity Culture and Tennyson’s Circle (2013), and author of Dickinson and her British Contemporaries: Victorian Poetry in Nineteenth-Century America, forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press.
SHU-CHUAN YAN
Professor
Shu-chuan Yan is Professor of English in the Department of Western Languages and Literature at National University of Kaohsiung. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Manchester, with primary research interests in 19th-Century English novels and Victorian literature and culture. Her recent articles have appeared in Women’s Studies, Women’s Writing, Victorian Literature and Culture, Journal of Popular Culture, Journal of Modern Craft, Home Cultures, and Victorian Periodicals Review.
FENG-SHU LEE
Associate Professor
Feng-Shu Lee is assistant professor of musicology at National Chiao Tung University (Hsinchu, Taiwan). She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in violin performance, as well as a Master’s Degree in musicology, from the New England Conservatory (Boston, MA). She received her Ph.D. in music from the University of Chicago. Her research interests include opera history, improvisation in 18th- and 19th-century keyboard music, the relationship between Romantic music, German philosophy, and theology; as well as music, optical science, philosophy, literature, and fine arts in 19th-century Europe.
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GEORGE LYTLE
Professor
Born 1951, USA
1973: B. A. in Anthropology, minor in Chinese, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
1976: M. A. in East Asian Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
1985: M. A. in Chinese Literature, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
1976: Began teaching career in English Department, Chinese Culture College, Taipei, Taiwan 中國文化學院，臺灣，臺北市，楊明山，later Chinese Culture University 中國文化大學
2007: retired from Chinese Culture University 中國文化大學
DOROTHEA TUNG
Lecturer
Dorothea Tung (writer / translator) received her M. A. in English Language and Literature from Fu Jen Catholic University. She translated Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson in Chinese Translation, Volume One and Volume Two, with George Lytle. She compiled and translated Selected Letters by Emily Dickinson in Chinese Translation and Selected Poems of English Romantic Poetry in Chinese Translation. She is the translator of Shattering the Myths: Taiwanese identity and the legacy of KMT colonialism by Laurence Eyton. Her essays and articles have appeared in numerous Taiwanese publications, among them The Liberty Times, United Daily News, The News Lens, and Newtalk. Her essay “An Amazing, Enduring Encounter” appeared in Dickinson Bulletin (November 2020). She was an adjunct lecturer in the English Teaching Department of National Hsinchu University of Education from 2003- 2014.