Faculty
Sylvia Li–chun Lin
Assistant Professor
BA, Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan, 1984; MA in Western Languages and Literature, Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan, 1987; MA in East Asian Studies, St John's University, New York, 1988; MA in Comparative Literature, University of Oregon, Eugene, 1991; PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1998.
Sylvia Li–chun Lin teaches modern and contemporay Chinese literature, film, and culture. Her research interests include Western missionaries and Chinese women, women and new culture in early 20–century China, language and identity in Taiwan, and narrative theory. A winner of the Liang Shih–chiu Literary Translation Prize, she is the co–translator of Chu T'ien-wen's Notes of a Desolate Man, which won the 1999 "Translation of the Year" award given by the American Literary Translators Association. Her essays and articles have been published by the Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese, World Literature Today, a special volume on literary journals and new culture in the 1910s, and several literary encyclopedias. She is currently working on a book-length, interdisciplinary manuscript, Commemorating National Trauma: The Ererba Incident and White Terror.
