Kang-Yen Chiu
Name Kang-Yen Chiu
Academic Position Associate Professor
Research Interests Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Painting, The Aesthetic Thought of the English and Scottish Enlightenment, Film Adaptations, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century English Literature, Scottish Literature, Historical Novels, Post-Colonial Theory
Email
Office Tel No. 02-2826-7000 ext.67978

Bio

Kang-yen Chiu, PhD in English Literature from the University of Glasgow, is associate professor at the Institute of Visual Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU). Currently, he is NYCU’s deputy director of the Language Learning and Writing Center, and book review editor of Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture. He was visiting researcher at the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica. He specializes in the writings of Sir Walter Scott, historical novel and postcolonial theories. He is also an expert on the long Eighteenth-Century British painting, Enlightenment Aesthetics and literary film adaptation. He has published in journals such as The Wenshan Review, The BARS Review and Scottish Literary Review.

Specialisations

Main areas of specialization: Long Eighteenth-Century British Painting; Enlightenment Aesthetics; Literary Film Adaptations; British romantic literature; Historical Novel; Walter Scott; Scottish Literature

Other areas of research interest:  Literary Translation; Colonial and Postcolonial Literature; Travel Writing; Hospitality Studies


Academic Qualifications

  • 2008-2012 Ph. D. English Literature, University of Glasgow, UK
  • 2004-2006 M.A. English Literature, University of York, UK
  • 1998-2002 B.A. English and American Literature, National Central University, Taiwan


Working Experiences

  • 2022.02-迄今       專任副教授，國立陽明交通大學視覺文化研究所
  • 2021.02-2022.01  專任副教授，國立陽明交通大學人文與社會教育中心
  • 2018.02-2021.01   專任助理教授，國立陽明大學人文與社會教育中心
  • 2018.02-迄今       兼任助理教授，國立政治大學英國語文學系/研究所
  • 2017.02-2018.01   專案助理教授，國立陽明大學人文與社會教育中心

Honours & Awards

  • 中央研究院歐美所111年度第2梯次「國內學人短期來院訪問研究」（2022年8月~12月）
  • 國立陽明交通大學人社院績優教研人員（2021年8月1日～2023年7月31日）
  • 期刊論文“Walter Scott’s First Chinese Critic — Mao Dun”獲選為陽明大學2020年第二季(4-6月)重要論文，2020年9月
  • 國立陽明大學人文與社會科學院108學年度教學傑出，2020年9月
  • 國立陽明大學醫學院教學優良教師（獲頒琉璃獎座），2020年7月
  • 國立陽明大學醫學院教學優良（獲頒獎狀），2019年7月
  • 國立陽明大學醫學院教學優良（獲頒獎狀），2018年7月
  • 科技部補助大專院校延攬特殊優秀人才（A等級）(107年02月 01日至109年01月 31日止，共計24個月)（陽研字第1070029079號）

Journal Articles

  • 邱剛彥。〈從蘇格蘭高地清地論述探究十八世紀進步史觀之言說：《蘇格蘭高地的悲傷記憶》與《異國他鄉的陽光記憶》的論戰〉。《英美文學評論》(THCI) 42 (2023年6月)：187-215.
  • 邱剛彥。〈從小兒麻痺症以及《回憶錄》抉發司各特的生命內涵〉。《文山評論：文學與文化》(THCI) 14:2 (2021年6月)：241-274。
  • Chiu, Kang-yen. “Reading Ivanhoe in Midnight: Scott and the Rise of Modern Chinese Fiction.” Scottish Literary Review (A&HCI) 12.2 (2020): 1-17. 
  • 邱剛彥。〈司各特《蓋伊‧曼爾寧》與高地清地運動：從吉普賽人的遭遇對照蘇格蘭高地人的苦難哀歌〉。《中外文學》(THCI) 49.3（2020年9月）：211-233。
  • Chiu, Kang-yen. “Walter Scott’s First Chinese Critic — Mao Dun.” Scottish Literary Review (A&HCI) 12.1 (2020): 19-34.
  • Chiu, Kang-yen and Coinneach Maclean. “Gaelic Scotland and Tourism: A Postcolonial Perspective?” Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig (Gaelic Research) 7 (2020): 194-209. 
  • Chiu, Kang-yen. “Walter Scott and Hospitality: Theory and Practice.” Scottish Literary Review (A&HCI) 11.1 (2019): 9-26.
  • 邱剛彥。〈帝國的儲藏室：司各特的中國相關書寫、收藏及閱讀〉。《文山評論：文學與文化》(THCI) 11.1（2017年12月）：89-113。


Book Chapters

  • 邱剛彥。〈「進步」的辯證：以英國詹姆斯黨人1745年起義為主題的歷史小說探析〉。邱剛彥、黃柏源編。《浩蕩英華：長十八世紀的英國文藝與歷史》。台北市：時報文化，2023。
  • Chiu, Kang-yen. “John Ruskin.” Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary. Ed. Caroline E. McCracken-Flesher and Alan Riach. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. (forthcoming 2021) ISBN: 9780748641598.
  • Chiu, Kang-yen. “Mary MacPherson.” (Màiri Mhòr nan Òran) Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary. Ed. Caroline E. McCracken-Flesher and Alan Riach. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. (forthcoming 2021) ISBN: 9780748641598.
  • Chiu, Kang-yen. “Walter Scott’s Writing, Collecting and Reading China.” Trade and Tribute: China and Global Modernity, 1784-1935. Ed. William Christie, Angela Dunstan and Qingsheng Tong. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2020. 205-224. ISBN: 9781743326008.
  • Chiu, Kang-yen. “Reading the Subaltern in the Waverley Novels.” Bonds and Borders: Identity, Imagination and Transformation in Literature. Ed. Rebecca DeWald and Dorette Sobolewski. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. 9-18. ISBN: 1443829536.
  • Chiu, Kang-yen. “Reading the Subaltern in the Waverley Novels.” Bonds and Borders: Identity, Imagination and Transformation in Literature. Ed. Rebecca DeWald and Dorette Sobolewski. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. 9-18. ISBN: 1443829536.
  • Chiu, Kang-yen. “Orientalism, Hospitality and Empire in The Talisman.” Founder to Shore: Cross-currents in Irish and Scottish Studies. Ed. Shane Alcobia-Murphy, Lindsay Milligan and Dan Wall. Aberdeen: AHRC [Arts & Humanities Research Council] Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, 2010. 55-64. ISBN: 9781906108151.


Edited Works

  • 邱剛彥、黃柏源編。《浩蕩英華：長十八世紀的英國文藝與歷史》。台北市：時報文化，2023。
  • Chiu, Kang-yen. “Foreword.” Chiu, Kang-yen and Murray Pittock, eds, ‘Sir Walter Scott: His Worlds and Legacies, A Special Issue Dedicated to the 200th Anniversary of the Publication of Ivanhoe’, The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture (THCI), Special Issue, 13:2 (June 2020), pp. i-iv. 客座主編《文山評論：文學與文化》紀念司各特《撒克遜英雄傳》出版二百周年特刊第13期第2部（2020年6月）。
  • Chiu, Kang-yen and Murray Pittock, eds, ‘Sir Walter Scott: His Worlds and Legacies, A Special Issue Dedicated to the 200th Anniversary of the Publication of Ivanhoe’, The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture (THCI), Special Issue, 13:2 (June 2020) 客座主編《文山評論：文學與文化》紀念司各特《撒克遜英雄傳》出版二百周年特刊第13期第2部（2020年6月）。
  • Chiu, Kang-yen and Murray Pittock, eds, ‘Sir Walter Scott: His Worlds and Legacies, A Special Issue Dedicated to the 200th Anniversary of the Publication of Ivanhoe’, The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture (THCI), Special Issue, 13:1 (December 2019) 客座主編《文山評論：文學與文化》紀念司各特《撒克遜英雄傳》出版二百周年特刊第13期第1部（2019年12月）。


Book Review

  • Chiu, Kang-yen. Review of Walter Scott, Marmion (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018) for The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture (THCI), 13:2 (June 2020): 207-210.
  • Chiu, Kang-yen. Review of Weixin Wang, A History of the Scottish Novel (Beijing: Beijing Commercial Press, 2017) for Scottish Literary Review (A&HCI) 10:2 (2018), 131-33. ISSN: 1756-5634
  • Chiu, Kang-yen. Review of Elizabeth A. Bohls, Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013) for BARS (British Association for Romantic Studies) Review, 46 (2015), 14-16. ISSN: 0964-2447
  • Chiu, Kang-yen. Review of Walter Scott, Introduction and Notes from the Magnum Opus: Waverley to a Legend of the Wars of Montrose (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012) and Introduction and Notes from the Magnum Opus: Ivanhoe to Castle Dangerous (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012) for BARS (British Association for Romantic Studies) Review, 44 (2014), 27-28. ISSN: 0964-2447
  • Chiu, Kang-yen. Review of Richard Hill, Picturing Scotland through the Waverley Novels: Walter Scott and the Origins of the Victorian Illustrated Novel (Surrey: Ashgate, 2010) for BARS (British Association for Romantic Studies) Bulletin and Review, 41 (2012), 38-39. ISSN: 0964-2447
  • Chiu, Kang-yen. Review of Walter Scott, The Talisman and The Betrothed, Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009) for BARS (British Association for Romantic Studies) Bulletin and Review, 39 (2011), 29-30. ISSN: 0964-2447
  • Chiu, Kang-yen. Review of Walter Scott, The Shorter Fiction, Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009) for BARS (British Association for Romantic Studies) Bulletin and Review, 37 (2010), 44-45. ISSN: 0964-2447


Other Publications: Literature Magazine

  • 邱剛彥。〈歐洲歷史小說之父司各特與《撒克遜英雄傳》出版二百週年〉《聯合文學》。2020年8月號，頁46-49。

MOST Research Projects

計畫來源及類型：科技部專題研究計畫（優秀年輕學者研究計畫）
計畫名稱：Reflecting upon the Notion of “Progress”: A Study of the Historical Writing and Twentieth-Century Literature on the Scottish Highland Clearances from the Postcolonial Perspective
計畫編號：MOST 111-2628-H-A49 -002 -MY2

計畫來源及類型：科技部專題研究計畫（一般研究計畫）
計畫名稱：「進步」的辯證：從跨文化的視角探析以英國詹姆斯黨人1745年起義為主題的十九、二十世紀歷史小說
計畫編號：MOST 110-2410-H-A49A-507-
時間：2021.08.01～2022.07.31

計畫來源及類型：科技部專題研究計畫（一般研究計畫）
計畫名稱：書寫是靈魂的救贖：從醫學人文的角度探討司各特的書寫與其疾病之關聯
計畫編號：MOST 109-2410-H-010-007-
時間：2020.08.01～2021.07.31

計畫來源及類型：科技部專題研究計畫（二年期學術性專書寫作計畫）
計畫名稱：慶賀《撒克遜英雄傳》出版二百週年—撰寫《瓦爾特·司各特爵士與中國》一書
計畫編號：MOST 107-2410-H-010 -002 -MY2
時間：2018.08.01～2020.07.31（因應疫情影響延長至2021.07.31）

計畫來源及類型: ：科技部專題研究計畫（新進人員研究計畫）
計畫名稱：瓦爾特·司各特作品於五四時期的評論與接受－以茅盾為例
計畫編號：MOST 106-2410-H-010-019-
時間：2017.11.01～2018.10.31

計畫來源及類型: ：科技部補助國內專家學者出席國際學術會議
計畫名稱：​​科技部補助赴加拿大溫哥華參加第二屆蘇格蘭文學全球代表大會：對話與離散（World Congress of Scottish Literatures: Dialogues and Diasporas）
計畫編號：106-2914-I-010-003-A1
時間：2017.06.21-25

Courses Taught:

Postgraduate:

  • Social History and Sociology of Visual Cultures
  • Imperial Eyes: British Painting in the Long Eighteenth Century
  • The Theory and Practice of Adaptation: From Novel to Film
  • Travel Writing and the Empire, 1700-1900

 

Undergraduate:

  • British Historical Novel (Scott, Stevenson, and Woolf) 
  • English Literary Canons 
  • Classic Novels in Western Literature 
  • Western Popular Culture
  • British Romantic Poetry
  • Introduction to the Eighteenth-Century Novel
  • Theatre Music — Humanities (co-taught)
  • Women Novelists and British Romantic Literature 
     

Teaching Interest:

  • British Historical Novel 
  • Aesthetics of the Age of Enlightenment
  • British Romantic Poetry 
  • Introduction to the Eighteenth-Century Novel
  • Literary Canon and Film Adaptation 
  • Travel Writing and the Empire, 1700-1900
  • Imperial Eyes: British Painting in the Long Eighteenth Century