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The English Department at NCU was established in 1970. In its formative years, NCU English was structured around the teaching of language with readings in literature as with most foreign language departments at the time. By the end of the 1980s, professionalization in higher education was an emergent demand amidst political and economic liberalization. During this period, the department added a number of faculty with degrees in English and American languages, literature and theory, comparative literature, cultural and film studies. From the early 1990s through the beginning decades of the twenty-first century, this cohort of faculty implemented structural changes to the curriculum that pioneered articulation of research and pedagogy, with attention to academic training in thought and practices combining local concerns and global intellectual and language mediations.

As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, with English an official language or becoming one in major parts of Asia, our Department of English is seriously reconsidering the role of tertiary study of English and American languages and literatures in Taiwan and regionally. Our faculty research fields are diverse, yet many of us, especially the newest cohort (who have joined us in the last decade), focus on some aspect of the language, culture, and historical configurations that create English as a discipline in Asia. We are therefore building a pedagogy that can ask why English has the value that it does and how it has changed or could be changed. We think of this model as a general direction that other departments of English in the region could also take up. Many scholars have pointed out that the history of English literature and comparative literature, as we have inherited those fields today, parallels the history of the nation-state, and the two institutions (the modern nation state and humanities disciplinarity) are historically mutually constitutive. Beginning with the connection between English literature as a discipline and the nation state establishes a grounded interdisciplinary method. To study English literature, for example, we may also need to look at sources in Chinese and other languages and we may need to study history, sociology, philosophy, art and visual media, etc. The interdisciplinarity we envision and are developing is not simply an assemblage of different disciplines, but an integrated method that requires study across and collaboration between different fields and specializations.

Our recently hired professors demonstrate expertise in specialized fields in literature and culture, including Victorian literature, Asian American literature, animated film, and with our two newest hires, European medieval literatures and social philosophy; yet they are also trained in the most current, broadly interdisciplinary and comparative methods, including cultural studies, visual studies, critical race studies, and the historical study of affect and sexuality. With training that combines disciplinary expertise with interdisciplinary method, they strengthen our established research centers and other resources at the department and college levels.

葉明立

Carmelo Esterrich

傅特萊爾特計畫訪問學人

Professor of Humanities and Cultural Studies

Columbia College Chicago

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學歷 / Education

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Ph.D. The University of Wisconsin – Madison, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 1994

美國威斯康辛大學麥迪遜分校西班牙語副修傳播藝術(電影與電視)博士

專長領域 / Fields of Specialty

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Cinema and Media Studies, Latin American Studies, Postcolonial Studies

經歷 / Experience

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  • Fulbright Foundation Visiting Professor in English, National Central University, Taiwan (R.O.C.) 2025 Spring semester
  • 1998-present Professor, School of Communication and Culture, Columbia College Chicago
  • 1994-1998 Assistant Professor, Modern Languages, Denison University

著作目錄 /
Publications and Presentations

專書 Books

  • Café Tacvba’s Re.London: Bloomsbury Press. (Part of the 33 1/3 music series).  Forthcoming in 2025. 
  • Star Wars Multiverse.New Brunswick, NJ/London, UK: Rutgers University Press, 2021. (Part of the series Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture). 160 pp. 
  • Concrete and Countryside: The Urban and the Rural in 1950s Puerto Rican Culture Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. (Part of the series ‘Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas’). 184 pp. 

期刊論文 Journal articles

  • “Maternidades heroicas en Roma, de Alfonso Cuarón.” Cuadernos del Centro de Estudios en Diseño y Comunicación(Universidad de Palermo–Buenos Aires, Argentina) Vol. 91 (2020-2021): 211-218.
  • “Singing the City, Documenting Modernization: Cortijo y su combo and the Insertion of the Urban in 1950s Puerto Rican Culture.” Book Chapter in Song and Social Change in Latin America. Lauren Shaw, ed. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2013. 9-26. 
  • “Rock with Punk with Pop with Folklore: Transformations and Renewal in Aterciopelados and Café Tacuba” (2001) in White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race. Stephen Duncombe and Maxwell Tremblay, eds. London: Verso, 2011. 
  • “Para desbaratar a mamá: el último cine de Arturo Ripstein y Paz Alicia Garciadiego” Objeto visual(Caracas, Venezuela) 13.11 (June 2005): 54-79. 
  • “Mecánicas groseras: Travestismo y retórica en la novela de Servero Sarduy” Revista Iberoamericana(Center for Latin American Studies, Pittsburgh, PA) No. 204 (JulySeptember 2003): 597-611. 
  • “Filtros de nostalgia y colonización: el retorno en el cine de Raúl Ruiz” Cinemais(Brazil) 24 (2001): 111-126. 
  • “Home and the Ruins of Language: The Nuyorican Poetry of Víctor Hernández Cruz and Miguel Algarín” MELUS: Journal of The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States3 (Fall 1998): 43-56. 

 CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATION

  • JAN 2023
    • “Boricua Wookies: Puerto Rican Bodies and the Ambivalent, Posthuman Gesture of Cosplay”(Modern Language Association)San Francisco, CA
  • MAY 2019
    • “The Persistence of the Countryside: Urban Horror and Political Terror in Neighboring Sounds”LASA (Latin American Studies Association) Conference Boston, MA
  • OCT 2018
    • “Negotiating Multifarious Puerto Ricannesses in RuPaul’s Drag Race” Puerto Rican Studies Association National Conference Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ
  • SEPT 2017
    • “‘This is the Prison of Miguel:’ Revisiting Traditional Masculinities in Ana Tipa’s Preso” Latin American Women’s Filmmaking Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London London, England, UK
  • MAY 2016
    • “Live-Action Queens, Animated: The Gender Politics of Beauty Pageants in Reinas” LASA (Latin American Studies Association) Conference New York, New York
  • MAR 2015
    • “Marrying ‘Roaches:’ Power, Sexuality and Religious Liminality in Aracelis Santanta’s Blattángelus” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference Montréal, Québec, CANADA
  • MAY 2013
    • “Filming Remembering Forgetting: The Spectacle of Erasure in Cuchillo de palo/108” LASA (Latin American Studies Association) Washington, D.C.
  • OCT 2012     
    • “La Vida and the New Life: Pedro Juan Soto and José Luis González Take on Oscar Lewis’s La Vida”  Puerto Rican Studies Association Conference Albany, NY
  • JAN 2011
    • “Revolution, Euphoria and the Ungovernable Strategies of Memories of Underdevelopment” MLA (Modern Language Association) Convention Los Angeles, CA
  • OCT 2008
    • “La escritura contrapastoral de José Luis González” PRSA Conference San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • DEC 2007      

常開課程 /

Courses

  • Interdisciplinary Humanities, Cultural Studies, Latin American Cultures and Literatures

榮譽 Grants and Academic Honors

2021 First Prize, Columbia College Chicago Excellence in Teaching Award