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Joseph C. Murphy received his PhD in English from the University of Pennsylvania, where he wrote a dissertation on the synergy between world’s fairs and American literary culture in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His teaching and research delineate a crossroads between American literature, visual culture, and allegorical traditions, and his publications focus on a number of writers, including Benjamin Franklin, Walt Whitman, Flannery O’Connor, Cormac McCarthy, and especially Willa Cather. He is currently writing a book exploring Cather’s modernism as a distillation of turn-of-the-century cultures of spectacle, e.g., Wagnerism, Indian pageants, art museums, urban development, minstrelsy, and religious ritual. Beginning in 2015, he will contribute the annual review of Cather criticism to American Literary Scholarship (Duke UP). His most recent project is a study of Venice in the American literary imagination.
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Junior English Composition and Conversation
Cross-Cultural Communication: Global Understanding
Multimedia Teaching Materials
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John Basourakos received his Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Humanities Studies from Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Dr. Basourakos has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in theatre history, cultural studies, literary theory, and academic writing in several countries and in different cultural contexts. He has published several articles on contemporary women playwrights, like Caryl Churchill, Pam Gems, Nawal El Saadawi, and Emily Mann, with a focus on how each playwright undertakes a critique of patriarchal ideologies of domination and normalization through their plays, as well as how they each examine conventional discourses about gender and sexuality as sites of struggles. He is currently doing research on how contemporary American male playwrights, like August Wilson, Neil LaBute, Donald Margulies, and David Mamet, explore issues of a “troubled American manhood” in their plays, and thus persist to interrogate the concept of masculinity, and of “American masculinity,” in particular, as culturally constructed and reproduced.
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Mary Wan-lun Lee received her Ph.D in Applied Linguistics and ELT from the University of Warwick in 2011. She taught a variety of courses in the fields of English language and applied linguistics at a number of Taiwanese universities and worked as a research fellow at the University of Warwick before she joined the English Department of FJU in the summer of 2012. Her research interests cover such areas as the use of literature in ELT, computer-assisted language learning, and cross-cultural communication. She has published articles on the integration of literature and cooperative learning, blog-assisted extensive reading, technology-enhanced literature circles, and global education through news circles. She is currently working on an MOST-funded research project investigating university English teachers’ attitudes and views about using literature in ELT.
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文學在英語教學之運用.
外國語文(中級英文).
英文作文與會話(二).
Sherri Yi-chun Wei received her PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Warwick in 2011. Her main research interest is learner autonomy and language learning strategies, particularly in a blended learning environment. She is also interested in investigating psychological issues like the role of emotions and identities in language classrooms, and these research interests are also reflected in courses she taught over the recent years in both undergraduate and graduate programs, including Teaching English through Children’s Literature, Online Learning Community: From Theory to Practice, and Psychology in Language Classrooms. Since 2006, she has joined the Chang-fu Service-learning project and is currently studying student participant’s change of identities in Service-Learning projects. She has supervised MA students working on listening strategies, vocabulary learning strategies and flipped classroom.
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