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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.
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Literary Criticism: Love, Desire and Class
Literary Criticism: Identity, Trauma and Globalization
Postmodern City Text: Toronto, Montreal and Taipei
Introduction to Literature
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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Ming-i Lydia Tseng received her PhD in Applied Linguistics from Lancaster University, UK. She has been teaching and researching in the areas of academic literacy studies, second/foreign language learning and teaching, qualitative research methodology, and discourse analysis (particularly, critical discourse analysis and genre analysis). She has published book chapters, conference papers, and journal articles on academic writing practices, pedagogic discourses and teacher identity, graduate student supervision, and evaluation language in academic genres. Her recent research projects focus on multiliteracies pedagogy and EFL students’ multimodal composing.
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Bi-Chu Chen’s academic interests cover TESOL, e-Learning, environmental protection, and interpretation and translation. She is a holistic education practitioner who likes to conduct individual action research or team research related to language and humanity, e-Learning & language acquisition, human language behavior, multiple intelligences, and environmental protection. She has received several teaching excellence awards, e-Learning curriculum design awards, outstanding counseling awards, and student graduation project advisor awards. Furthermore, as an experienced instructor in innovative teaching work and curriculum planning; she is a reviewer of several conferences and journals and has been in curriculum and different types of committee boards for years.
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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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Chung-Pei Tsai received her PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she wrote a dissertation on the impact of No Child Left Behind on English learners with limited prior education. Her interests are in the areas of language policy and education, language politics and ideology, language and identity, film studies, and technology assisted language teaching. She is currently working on a research project investigating the language attitudes and identities of Taiwanese university students who simultaneously received Chinese, English, and mother tongue education during their elementary school years.
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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).
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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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