Faculty

Chair

Professor and Chair
Early English Literature, Medieval Studies, Arthurian Legend

Emeritus Professor

Emeritus Professor
History of English Literature
Emeritus Professor
Drama, Comparative Literature
Emeritus Professor
American Literature
Emeritus Professor
Literary Theory, Semiotics
Emeritus Professor
Shakespeare, Literary Translation
Emeritus Professor
English Teaching and Testing, Introduction to Linguistics, Contrastive Analysis of Chinese and English, Linguistics and Literature, the Austronesian Languages of Taiwan
Emeritus Professor
Literary Theory, Cultural Studies
Emeritus Professor
Comparative Literature, Drama, Shakespeare

Full-time

Distinguished Professor
Spanish History & Culture
Distinguished Professor
Comparative Poetics, Anglo-American poetry, Contemporary fiction, postcolonial theories, globalization and transnationalism, psychoanayhlytical theories, Deleuze, posthumanism, Modern Taiwan literature and culture, Hongloumeng studies, film studies
Distinguished Professor
Feminism, Literature & Cultural Studies
Distinguished Professor
Twentieth-Century English and American Literature, Contemporary Taiwanese Fiction, Feminist Theory and Fiction, Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theory and Fiction
Professor
Joyce studies, Beckett studies, Twentieth-Century English Literature, Modern British Fiction
Professor
Europe and East Asia 1500-1900
Professor
Spanish, Spanish Literature, Latin-American Literature, Chinese-Spanish Translation
Professor
semiotics, narratology, urban studies, literary theory, theory of space, intertextual analysis, sea literature
Professor
Joycean Study, Psychoanalysis
Professor
Speech Communication
Professor
British Romanticism, Art History, Natural History, East-West Encounter, Dance
Professor
Sociolinguistics, TESL
Professor
Canadian Literature; Quebecois Studies; Contemporary American Literature; Asian North American Studies; Race/Ethnicity Studies and Multiculturalism
Professor
Irish Drama, Modern and Contemporary Irish Literature, Post-colonial Studies
Professor
German Literature, German Linguistic & Comparative Literature
Professor
Modernism, comparative literature, film studies, literary theory
Professor
Postcolonial studies; Asian American studies; Canadian studies
Professor
American Realism
Professor
seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English literature, food and literature, East-West alchemy and occult philosophy, Sci-fi/fantasy literature and translation, comparative literature, studies of comics, animation, and otaku culture
Professor
Interpretation, Translation, Second Language Acquisition, Teaching English as a Foreign Language
Professor
(Bio)semiotics, Hermeneutics and Phenomenology; Comparative Literature; Comparative Aesthetics and the Arts; History and Philosophy of Science
Professor
Literary Theory, Cultural Globalization, Novel
Professor
Computational Linguistics, Computer-Assisted Translation, Intelligent Computer-Assisted Learning
Professor
critical literacy; multimodal literacy
Professor
Psychoanalysis, Psychopatholgy, French philosophy, French culture
Professor
Cultural and Literary Theories, Contemporary British Novel, Victorian Novel, Medicine and Literature
Professor
literary theory, media theory, word and image studies, postcolonial studies, contemporary Anglophone literature
Professor
Translation technology, Legal translation, Technical translation, Specialized translation, Translation training, Translation project management
Associate Professor
Web-based language learning and teaching
Associate Professor
Linguistics, Greek Literature
Associate Professor
Cinema, Drama
Associate Professor
Lesbian and Gay Studies, Queer Theory, Colonial Discourse Analysis, Postcolonial Theory, 19th- and 20th-Century English and American Literature
Associate Professor
Turn-of-the-Century European Drama, Jewish Studies, History of Opera, British and American Contemporary Theater
Associate Professor
Literary and Cultural Theories, Renaissance Literature, Modernism, Taiwan Literature
Associate Professor
Medieval Studies, Comparative Literature, Medieval Languages
Associate Professor
Russian language, 19th-Century Russian Literature, Silver Age of Russian Poetry, Russian culture and movies
Associate Professor
TESOL, Second Language Acquisition, Bilingual Education
Associate Professor
French as a Foreign Language; French Pronunciation / Intonation
Associate Professor
Byron, Romanticism, Freud
Associate Professor
Joyce Studies, Popular Culture Studies, Gender/Sexuality Studies, Monster Studies
Associate Professor
Psycholinguistics, Sentence Comprehension, Statstics and Experimental Designs
Associate Professor
Language Testing, Computer-Assisted Language Teaching and Learning, Second Language Acquisition, Quantitative Research Methods
Associate Professor
Education (Didactics), Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language
Associate Professor
Victorian Visual Culture, Victorian Nonsense, Paratext
Associate Professor
Contemporary British Drama, Black Comedy, Dramatic Theories, Feminisms, Women/Feminist Playwrights, Contemporary Disability Studies
Associate Professor
Middle English Literature, Trauma Studies
Associate Professor
Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Literature, Shakespeare
Associate Professor
Applied Linguistics-Second Language Assessment
Associate Professor
British Romantic Literature
Associate Professor
Irish Studies, James Joyce, Modernist Literature
Associate Professor
Teaching German as a Foreign Language, Language Teaching, Computer Assisted Teaching
Associate Professor
women's writing, literature and visual arts, 18th-century literature, 19th-century literature
Associate Professor
Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Disability Studies, Political Fantasy, Childhood Studies, the Gothic
Associate Professor
Phonetics, Phonology, Psycholinguistics, Language Acquisition
Assistant Professor
French Realist Fiction in the Nineteenth Century
Assistant Professor
Syntax, Morphology, Historical Linguistics, Austronesian Linguistics, Field Methods
Assistant Professor
Spanish Pastoral Novel, Spanish Teaching, Chinese-Spanish Translation
Assistant Professor
Pragmatics, Spanish Language Teaching, Interlanguage and Cross-cultural Pragmatics Studies
Assistant Professor
Early modern English literature and culture; drama; Shakespeare; history of science; imperialism
Assistant Professor
pretext, critical theory, science fiction, philosophy of literature, religion and literature, discourses of religion, queer theory, 20th century US literature
Assistant Professor
Phonology, Phonetics
Assistant Professor
film theory, film philosophy, media studies, contemporary Hollywood, cinematic modernism
Assistant Professor
English medium instruction, language policy, bi/multilingual education, TESOL teacher development
Assistant Professor
The state culture of Late Antiquity, Roman Law, Latin literature in Late Antiquity
Assistant Professor
Ancient Greek and Latin Language and Literature, Ancient Greek Historians, Language Contact, Code-Switching, Greek and Roman History, Ancient Ethnicity, Roman Literature, Linguistics
Assistant Professor
Russian Linguistics, Russian language and cultural studies, Gastronomic discourse, Author as a text category, Amateur interpretation of Russian literary classics, Social media studies
Assistant Professor
Translation; Interpretation; Postcolonial Studies; Cultural Studies
Specialist at Assistant Professor level
conference interpretation (simultaneous & consecutive), T& I pedagogy and curriculum design
Instructor
Teaching French as a Foreign Language, Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, Technologies de l'information et de la communication pour l'éducation (TICE)
Instructor
Educational Technology, Foreign Language Teaching, Learning and Research
Instructor
Comparative Literature, Literary Theory, 20-Century Modern Literature
Specialist at Instructor level
Conference Interpretation, SI and CI

Adjunct

Adjunct Professor
TELL, L2 oral training and research, Language assessment, L2 teacher education
Adjunct Professor
Literary Theory, Cultural Studies
Adjunct Professor
Feminism, Literary Criticism
Adjunct Professor
Comparative Literature, Drama, Shakespeare
Adjunct Associate Professor
Italian Grammar and Linguistics, Comparative Law
Adjunct Associate Professor
English pronunciation, phonetics, Chinese morphology
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Syntax, Discourse analysis, Interactions analysis, Teaching French as a foreign language
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Language, Society, and Culture; Academic Discourse Socialization; Educational Qualitative Research; TESOL Methods and Materials
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Adjunct Assistant Professor
French Symbolism, 19th century French Poetry
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Functional Linguistics, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Teacher Education, Instructed Second Language Acquisition
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language, Spanish and Latin-American Culture, Music and Motivation
Adjunct Assistant Professor
German Literature, Comparative Literature, German Linguistics, Design of German Learning Website
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Spanish, Journalism, Digital Diplomacy, Film Studies, New Media
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Medieval English Literature
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Italian language and culture, Chinese-Italian translation, Sinophone and "minzu" studies
Adjunct Instructor
Teaching Portuguese as Foreign Language
Adjunct Instructor
Economy, Law
Adjunct Instructor
German-Chinese Translation
Adjunct Instructor
Language Teaching and Cinema
Adjunct Instructor
Teaching Dutch as a Foreign Language
Adjunct Instructor
German Language, German Literature and Civilization
Adjunct Instructor
Adjunct Instructor
Polish Studies, East-Central European and post-Soviet Studies
Adjunct Instructor
News Compilation and Translation, Chinese-English Translation
Adjunct Instructor
Translation, journalism, film studies
Adjunct Instructor
Czech for Non-Native Speakers
Adjunct Instructor
Modern Poetry (Wallace Stevens), writing, oral training
Adjunct Instructor
English Teaching; TESOL Training
Adjunct Instructor
Early American Literature, 19th-Century American Literature, law in culture
Adjunct Instructor
Teaching French as a Foreign Language
Adjunct Instructor
Adjunct Instructor
Translation and Interpretation
Adjunct Instructor
Applied linguistics (didactics)
Adjunct Instructor
Digital Media Production
Adjunct Instructor
Translation of Children's Literature; Children's Book Reviews
Adjunct Instructor
Science Fiction, Popular Culture Studies, STS Studies
Adjunct Instructor
Translation and interpreting, Chinese-to-English translation, subtitling, syntax
Adjunct Instructor
Spanish Teaching and Testing, Computer Assisted Language Learning, Spanish for specific purposes