Kate Chiwen  Liu (Dean, CFLL)Professor
kate@mail.fju.edu.tw
Contemporary Canadian and Taiwanese Postmodern Urban Film、Contemporary Canadian Postcolonial Literature、Web-Based Literature and Language Education、Literary Theory、Postmodernism

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

State University of New York, Stony Brook, U.S.A. English Department Ph.D. National Taiwan University Department of Foreign Language and Literature MA National Taiwan University Department of Foreign Language and Literature BA

Experience

Fu Jen Catholic Universtiy  Distinguished Professor Fu Jen Catholic University Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies and English Department Professor Fu Jen Catholic University Department of English Language and Literature Chair Fu Jen Catholic University English Department Associate Professor SUNY-Stony Brook English Department & Writing Center Instructor and TA Soochow University English Department Lecturer Fu Jen University English Department Lecturer

Fields of Specialty

Contemporary Canadian and Taiwanese Postmodern Urban Film, Contemporary Canadian Postcolonial Literature, Web-Based Literature and Language Education, Literary Theory, Postmodernism

Frequently Taught Courses

Literary Criticism: Love, Desire and Class

Literary Criticism: Identity, Trauma and Globalization

Postmodern City Text: Toronto, Montreal and Taipei

Introduction to Literature