Auteur: Y. Chen

YA-CHEN Chen”s academic interests include Sino-Western comparative literature, Asian Studies, women”s and gender studies, (multi)cultural studies, and film studies. Cited as an emergent diversity scholar by the National Center of Institutional Diversity (NCID) at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (2010), Ya-chen Chen is the recipient of Fu Cheng Literary Award (1995), CCA (Council for Cultural Affairs) Modern Literary Research Award (1997-8), Lynn Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship in Women”s and Gender Studies (2001-2005), Faculty Fellowship Publication Program (FFPP) Grant (2009), William Stuart Research Award (2009), and Taiwan Studies Research Travel Grant (the first and so far the only Chinese-heritage winner, 2010). She published Farewell My Concubine: Same-Sex Readings and Cross-Cultural Dialogues (2004), Women in Taiwan: Sociocultural Perspectives (2009), and Higher Education in East Asia: Neoliberalism and the Professoriate (2009). Her academic articles appear in American Journal of Chinese Studies, Borrowers and Lenders: Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation, Asian Cinema, Mediascape: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Feminism/o, Dangdai ( Con-Temporary), and Shijie dianying ( World Cinema), etc. Most of them are also included in Ohio State University”s MCLC (Modern Chinese Literature and Culture) on-line resource center.