Part-time
Kate Chiwen Liu got her PhD degree in English at State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1993. She has published articles on issues of re-constructions of history, trauma and/or urban immigrant identities in a number of Asian Canadian and Caribbean Canadian novels (by Michael Ondaatje, Joy Kogawa, Dionne Brand, SKY Lee, Kerri Sakamoto, Dionne Brand, Neil Bissoondath and Austin Clarke). Her studies of Canadian and Taiwanese films focus on their treatments of postmodern cities in the era of globalization. She has discussed the Canadian and Taiwanese films set respectively in Toronto, Montreal and Taipei in terms of their treatments of urban flows, flâneurial look, chance encounter and mediated communication. She is currently writing two books, respectively on postcolonial Canadian novels, and postmodern Canadian films. The book on Canadian films also makes comparisons between Canadian and Taiwanese films in order to bring her Canadian projects back home.
Education
Experience
Yun-Pi Yuan is currently an associate professor of the department, and vice dean of the College of Foreign Languages and Literature. She received her EdD in Applied Linguistics (with an emphasis on language assessment), Teachers College, Columbia University, NY, USA. She has been teaching and doing research in the areas of reading, language assessment, composition and conversation, introduction to linguistics, and remedial teaching. She has devoted much of her time to administration (chairs of the department for 8 years and vice dean of the college for 4 years, till the present). She is now helping with the curriculum reform (on foreign language learning) of the Holistic Center of the university and establishing a new college MA degree program on intercultural communication, and experimenting on innovative teaching such as flipped classroom for her courses.
