Theses Supervised
NYCU
MA dissertations
‘Three Types of Invisibility: Johnnie To’s PTU (2003) and the City of Anamorphosis,’ Daniel Ding, August 2022.
In process
On the cinematic representation of the “White Terror” in Taiwan, Jason Chien. In process
On animal and human beings in documentaries. Walter Ge. In process.
On the “after-effect” of Cultural Revolution in the post 6th generation mainland Chinese cinema, Shan Huang. In process.
Department of English, National Taipei University of Technology
MA dissertations
‘A Philosophical Analysis of Punishment in the Films of Kieslowski, Oshima, and Von Trier,’ Hannah Yi-Ting Huang, February 2021.
‘Female Voice and a Cinema of Survival in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Good Man, Good Woman (好男好女) (1995),’ Catherine Lo, July 2019.
‘Waste, Death, and Abjection in Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend,’ Luke Nolan, June 2019.
‘Cinematic Gaze and Voyeurism in Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom (1960),’ by Sophie Su, Jan 2018
‘Role-Playing, Androgyny, and Gender Identity in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night,’ by Serene Jing Lin, Aug 2017.
‘Life is an Opera: Self-reflexivity and Confession in Machado de Assis’s Dom Casmurro,’ by Jessica Tin-jean Liou, Jan 2016.
‘Wounded Photograph: Death and Trauma in Park Chan-wook’s JSA,’ by Cindy Hsin-ju Li, Jan 2016.
‘The Unwelcome Tenants: Family, Art, and Politics in Visconti’s Conversation Piece,’ by Adeline Lin, Aug 2015.
‘An Anatomy of Sympathy: from Oscar Wilde to Lars von Trier,’ by Christina Fong-Lin Liu, Nov 2014.
‘Ophelia Reimagined: Representations of Female Suicide in Ibsen’s Plays,’ by Casey Ru-Jin Hsu, Nov 2014.
'Reading Time in Edward Yang's The Terrorizers,' by Belinda I-Pei Chen, Aug 2014.
'Desiring Narrative, Narrating Desire in Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby,' by Serena Hsieh, Aug 2013.
BA Senior Projects
2018
‘Clothes without Bodies: Issey Miyake’s A-POC and the Dialectical Image,’ by Demi Chang
'Translation Theory: Walter Benjamin’s Pure Language,’ by Trista Tsai
‘“I think this just might be my masterpiece”: American Exceptionalism and Allohistory in Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds (2009),’ Johnnie Li
‘Repetition and the Aesthetics of Tête-bêche in Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love (2000),’ Melody Huang
2017
‘Memory and Trauma in Waltz with Bashir,’ by Winnie Cai
‘Identity and Fantasy in Paranoia Agent (2004),’ by Lydia Huang
'Repetition and Temporality in Einstein on the Beach,’ by Michelle Hsu
‘Walking Petersburg: Reading Transgression in Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment,’ by Derry Yeh
2016
‘Representation of Female Revenge in Tarantino’s Kill Bill,’ by Audrey Huang
‘Understanding Perceptual Reality through Jeff Wall’s A Sudden Gust of Wind (After Hokusai),’ by Wendy Jia-chi Huang
‘Beyond Morality: A Nietzschean Reading of Goethe’s Faust,’ by Jenny Kuo
2015
‘Writing Rape: Desire, and Gap of Representation in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa,’ by Aimi Ting
‘Nietzsche’s Three Types of Woman in Fruffaut’s Jules et Jim,’ by Enzo Chang
‘Repetition, Resemblance, and Self-reflexivity in Hong Sang-soo's The Day He Arrives,’ Joy Liu
‘A Tiger's Leap into the Past: History, the Dialectical Image, and Fashion in the Neo-Classical France,’ by Shaun Liu
‘Historical Role, Dieyi, the Signifer of Women in Chen Kaige’s Farewell my Concubine’ by Zoe Chang
‘Disillusioned Women in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, Rosmersholm, and Hedda Gabler,’ by Jenny Wen
‘ “I am Yearning to Know Things around Me Again”: Female Narration in Edward Yang’s That Day, on the Beach (1983),’ by Nelly Wu
2014
‘Colorless Time-Image: Memory and Dream in Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia’ by Nick Chen
‘ “The Story won’t Tell in Any Literal Vulgar Way”: The Ghostly Turns in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw’ by Bella Ling-Hua Tien
2013
‘ “Please Give Us Some Applause!”: The Theatrical and Cinematic Imagination in Kurosawa’s One Wonderful Sunday (1947)’ by Susan Cheng
‘ “I Don't Need a Second Change Even if I’m Given One”: Eternal Return and Repetition in Edward Yang’s Yi Yi (A One and a Two)’ by Doris Chen
‘Being and Seeming: Staging Revenge in Kim Ki-Duk's Pietà (2012)’ by Jane Kuo
‘Wrath and Melancholia: Dante’s Inferno VII and XIII’ by Jonathan Jien
‘Reading the Surface: Pop Art and the Sign’ by Frank Tsai
2012
'Representation and Its Critiques: Antonioni's Blow-up,' by Cindy Li
'Disciplinary City: Madness and Space in Woolf's Mrs Dollaway,' by Sherry Dong
2011
'Two Versions of Nature in Lars von Trier's AntiChrist,' by Beatrix Wu
'Re-creation and Recreation: National Identity in Seediq Bale,' by Jennifer Ou-Yang
NYCU
MA dissertations
‘Three Types of Invisibility: Johnnie To’s PTU (2003) and the City of Anamorphosis,’ Daniel Ding, August 2022.
In process
On the cinematic representation of the “White Terror” in Taiwan, Jason Chien. In process
On animal and human beings in documentaries. Walter Ge. In process.
On the “after-effect” of Cultural Revolution in the post 6th generation mainland Chinese cinema, Shan Huang. In process.
Department of English, National Taipei University of Technology
MA dissertations
‘A Philosophical Analysis of Punishment in the Films of Kieslowski, Oshima, and Von Trier,’ Hannah Yi-Ting Huang, February 2021.
‘Female Voice and a Cinema of Survival in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Good Man, Good Woman (好男好女) (1995),’ Catherine Lo, July 2019.
‘Waste, Death, and Abjection in Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend,’ Luke Nolan, June 2019.
‘Cinematic Gaze and Voyeurism in Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom (1960),’ by Sophie Su, Jan 2018
‘Role-Playing, Androgyny, and Gender Identity in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night,’ by Serene Jing Lin, Aug 2017.
‘Life is an Opera: Self-reflexivity and Confession in Machado de Assis’s Dom Casmurro,’ by Jessica Tin-jean Liou, Jan 2016.
‘Wounded Photograph: Death and Trauma in Park Chan-wook’s JSA,’ by Cindy Hsin-ju Li, Jan 2016.
‘The Unwelcome Tenants: Family, Art, and Politics in Visconti’s Conversation Piece,’ by Adeline Lin, Aug 2015.
‘An Anatomy of Sympathy: from Oscar Wilde to Lars von Trier,’ by Christina Fong-Lin Liu, Nov 2014.
‘Ophelia Reimagined: Representations of Female Suicide in Ibsen’s Plays,’ by Casey Ru-Jin Hsu, Nov 2014.
'Reading Time in Edward Yang's The Terrorizers,' by Belinda I-Pei Chen, Aug 2014.
'Desiring Narrative, Narrating Desire in Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby,' by Serena Hsieh, Aug 2013.
BA Senior Projects
2018
‘Clothes without Bodies: Issey Miyake’s A-POC and the Dialectical Image,’ by Demi Chang
'Translation Theory: Walter Benjamin’s Pure Language,’ by Trista Tsai
‘“I think this just might be my masterpiece”: American Exceptionalism and Allohistory in Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds (2009),’ Johnnie Li
‘Repetition and the Aesthetics of Tête-bêche in Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love (2000),’ Melody Huang
2017
‘Memory and Trauma in Waltz with Bashir,’ by Winnie Cai
‘Identity and Fantasy in Paranoia Agent (2004),’ by Lydia Huang
'Repetition and Temporality in Einstein on the Beach,’ by Michelle Hsu
‘Walking Petersburg: Reading Transgression in Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment,’ by Derry Yeh
2016
‘Representation of Female Revenge in Tarantino’s Kill Bill,’ by Audrey Huang
‘Understanding Perceptual Reality through Jeff Wall’s A Sudden Gust of Wind (After Hokusai),’ by Wendy Jia-chi Huang
‘Beyond Morality: A Nietzschean Reading of Goethe’s Faust,’ by Jenny Kuo
2015
‘Writing Rape: Desire, and Gap of Representation in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa,’ by Aimi Ting
‘Nietzsche’s Three Types of Woman in Fruffaut’s Jules et Jim,’ by Enzo Chang
‘Repetition, Resemblance, and Self-reflexivity in Hong Sang-soo's The Day He Arrives,’ Joy Liu
‘A Tiger's Leap into the Past: History, the Dialectical Image, and Fashion in the Neo-Classical France,’ by Shaun Liu
‘Historical Role, Dieyi, the Signifer of Women in Chen Kaige’s Farewell my Concubine’ by Zoe Chang
‘Disillusioned Women in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, Rosmersholm, and Hedda Gabler,’ by Jenny Wen
‘ “I am Yearning to Know Things around Me Again”: Female Narration in Edward Yang’s That Day, on the Beach (1983),’ by Nelly Wu
2014
‘Colorless Time-Image: Memory and Dream in Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia’ by Nick Chen
‘ “The Story won’t Tell in Any Literal Vulgar Way”: The Ghostly Turns in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw’ by Bella Ling-Hua Tien
2013
‘ “Please Give Us Some Applause!”: The Theatrical and Cinematic Imagination in Kurosawa’s One Wonderful Sunday (1947)’ by Susan Cheng
‘ “I Don't Need a Second Change Even if I’m Given One”: Eternal Return and Repetition in Edward Yang’s Yi Yi (A One and a Two)’ by Doris Chen
‘Being and Seeming: Staging Revenge in Kim Ki-Duk's Pietà (2012)’ by Jane Kuo
‘Wrath and Melancholia: Dante’s Inferno VII and XIII’ by Jonathan Jien
‘Reading the Surface: Pop Art and the Sign’ by Frank Tsai
2012
'Representation and Its Critiques: Antonioni's Blow-up,' by Cindy Li
'Disciplinary City: Madness and Space in Woolf's Mrs Dollaway,' by Sherry Dong
2011
'Two Versions of Nature in Lars von Trier's AntiChrist,' by Beatrix Wu
'Re-creation and Recreation: National Identity in Seediq Bale,' by Jennifer Ou-Yang
Teaching Experience
Postgraduate
Institute of Visual Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Film and Literature: An Intermedial Approach, Spring 2023
The Cinema of Edward Yang: Image and Philosophy, Spring 2022
Thinking with Moving Images, Fall 2020, Fall 2021
Image-Media-Culture, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2021, Fall 2021
Seminar: Visual Sociology and History of Visual Cultures I, II, III (co-taught)
Department of English, National Taipei University of Technology
Contemporary Literature, Spring 2014
Reading the City, Spring 2013, 2015
Technology and Modern Literature, Fall 2013, Spring 2016,
Special Topic in Literary and Cultural Studies: Literature and Revenge, Fall 2012, 2014, Spring 2017
Special Topic in Literary and Cultural Studies: Thinking with Moving Images, Fall 2019
Literature and Film, Fall 2011, Spring 2012
Undergraduate
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
A Cross-disciplinary Introduction to Ideas of Time (GE Core), Spring 2023
Things We Learned from Animals (Three Universities GE), Fall 2022
Introduction to Hong Kong Culture, (GE Core), Fall 2021
Introduction to Sinophone Cinema (GE Core), Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020
Representation of Illness in Film and Literature (Medicine Humanities), Spring 2020
Department of English, National Taipei University of Technology
British Literature, Fall 2011-13, 2015
Advanced English in Practice, Spring 2013-16
Film and Literature, Spring 2012, Spring 2015, Spring 2016
Learning English through Literature Classics, Spring 2011
Multi-purpose English, Spring 2017
English Department, Hong Kong Baptist University
Great Novels in English, Fall 2010
BA in English, University of London External System (at SPACE, University of Hong Kong)
Victorians, Spring 2010
The Novel, Fall 2010
Department of English Literature and Language, HK Shue Yan University
Victorian Literature, Spring 2006-09
Modern Asian Fiction, Fall 2005-08
Contemporary Literature, Spring 2008
Department of Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong
Comparative Studies of Narrative, Spring 2007
Associate Degree, Certificate, and others
Associate Degree in Cultural Studies, CUTW Community College
Gender Studies
Humanities through Cinema
Technology and Society
Introduction to Cultural Theory
Certificate in English Literary Studies, SPACE, University of Hong Kong
Literature and Music
Legal Fictions: Law and Literature
Introduction to Proust: In Search of Lost Time
Reading Short Fiction
Reading Drama
Broadway Cinematheque
Cinema and the City
In the Realm of Senses: Sex and Violence Films