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CURRICULUM VITAE

Shun-liang Chao 趙順良

E-mail: sleon.chao@gmail.com or s.chao@ucl.ac.uk

ACADEMIC POSTS

2009 Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan

2010 Director, Film Studies Centre, NCTU

EDUCATION
2009 PhD, University College, London (UCL), UK
2006-07 Visiting Research Student, History of Art, UCL, UK

2004 MA, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

1997 MA, Nat'l Chengchi University, Taiwan
1994 BA, Nat'l Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan

PUBLICATIONS
Books

Rethinking the Concept of the Grotesque: Crashaw, Baudelaire, Magritte (Oxford: Legenda, 2010) Studies in Comparative Literature 22 (EHRC, Oxford University and the British Comprative Literature Association) (blurb: http://www.mhra.org.uk/cgi-bin/legenda/legenda.pl?catalogue=b9781906540821)

Book Chapters:

"Fusion Style: Towards a Poetics of the Grotesque Body," The State of Stylistics, ed. Greg Watson (Amsterdam and New York, 2008), pp. 91-118.

Papers published in peer-reviewed journals:

1. "Education as a Pharmakon in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein." The Explicator 68.4 (2010): 223-26.

2. "Derrida's Deconstruction and the Rhetoric of Proper Genres in Leonardo and Lessing." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 8.3 (2006).

3. "'To Form a New Compound': Eliot, Bergson, and Cubism." Études Britanniques Contemporaines/Contemporary British Studies 31 (2006): 55-67.

4. "The Grotesque Sublime: Play with Terror." Forum: The University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of the Arts 2: Terror and Fear (2006).

5. "(Post)Modern Godard: Vivre sa vie." Synoptique: The Journal of Film and Film Studies 9 (2005).

6. "René Magritte: A Poetic Adventure in the Unconscious." Exit 9: The Rutgers Journal of Comparative Literature 6: Reading Scars (2004): 45-65.

Invited Articles:

1. “Paradoxical Postmodern Text.” Cluster Arts Magazine 1 (2007): 65-70.

Book Reviews:

1. Review of Metaphor, by David Punter, Language and Literature 18.1 (2009): 78-80.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

1. "'Aegri Somnia': Towards an Aesthetics of the Grotesque." The XI Internationl Conference of the British Comparative Literature Association, London, UK, July 2007.

2. "The Baroque Grotesque: Richard Crashaw's Sensuous Images." The 2007 Hermes International Seminar: World Literature and World Culture, Århus, Denmark, June 17, 2007.

3. "Fusion Style: Towards a Poetics of the Grotesque Body." The 26th Annual International Conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association, Joensuu, Finland, July 27, 2006.

4. "'A Heap of Broken Images': Eliot, Cubism, and Modernism." The 2005 Conference of the Société d'Etudes Anglaises Contemporaines & Société des Amis d'Intertexte (Society of Contemporary English Studies & Society of Intertexual Studies): The Infinite Dialogue: Redefining the Word/Image Analogy in the 20th-21st Centuries, London, UK, September 24, 2005.

5. "The Poetics of Collage: Eliot, Bergson, and Cubism." The 2005 Conference of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association / 74th Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Western Ontario, Canada, May 31, 2005.

6. "'A Rhetoric of Metamorphosis': Richard Crashaw's Grotesque Imagery." The 24th Annual International Conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association, New York City, New York, USA, July 26, 2004.

7. "René Magritte: A Poetic Adventure in the Unconscious." The Annual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, April 18, 2004.

8. "'Exorbitant': The Battle of Proper Genres in Comparative Arts: Leonard, Lessing, and Derrida." The 29th Annual Conference of the Southern Comparative Literature Association, Austin, Texas, USA, September 20, 2003.

9. (Post)Modern Godard: Vivre sa vie." (Dis)Junctions: University of California, Riverside's 10th Annual Humanities Conference, Riverside, California, USA, April 12, 2003.

HONOURS AND AWARDS
2007-08 The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

2006-07 UCL One-Year Cross-Disciplinary Scholarship (Art History)

2005-07 UCL Graduate School Research Scholarship
2004-07 The Overseas Research Students (ORS) Awards, Universities UK/UCL
2004 Roger Folwer Fund, Poetics and Linguistics Association
2003-04 University of Maryland Teaching Assistantship
2001-03 University of Maryland Graduate Fellowship

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2005-06 Comparative Literature Programme, UCL
2003-04 Chinese Program, University of Maryland, College Park
2003-04 Comparative Literature Program, University of Maryland, College Park

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2010 General Secretary, English and American Literature Association (EALA), Taiwan

2010 Reviewer, Comparative Literature Studies / CLS (Johns Hopkins UP)

2010 Organiser, The Barthes Workshop, National Science Council and NCTU

2008&10 Reviewer, Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies (NTNU, Taiwan)

2008 Editorial Assistant, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Purdue UP)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
2009- English and American Literature Association (EALA), Taiwan

2007- European Network for Comparative Literary Studies (ENCLS)

2006- Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA)
2004-09 International Association of Word and Image Studies / Association Internationale pour l'Étude des Rapports entre Texte et Image (IAWIS/AIERTI)
2007-08 British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA)

2005-06 Canadian Comparative Literature Association (CCLA)
2004-05 American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)

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