Department of English, NCCU

Class Lecture   Lecturer: Shawn Chang (Associate Professor of Department of English, Taipei Tech) Topic: Mandarin vowels in clear Speech and Lombard speech Time: May 8 (Wednesday) 9：10~12：00 Venue：Research Bldg. 250302

  Class Lecture   Lecturer: Yu-Yun Chang (Assistant Professor of Graduate Institute of Linguistics at NCCU) Topic: Why do robots sing? Is he a parrot? Time: April 30 (Tuesday) 9：10~12：00 Venue：Research Bldg. 250102

Dear EARN friends,   We are pleased to announce that Leanne Dunic, PhD candidate at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, will deliver the 52nd EARN public lecture, titled “Navigating Liminal Spaces with Amphibious Poetics” on Monday, 15 April 2024. All are welcome.    Speaker: Leanne Dunic (PhD candidate at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and leader of the band The Deep Cove)   Title: “Navigating Liminal Spaces with Amphibious Poetics"   Chair: Dr Min-hua Wu (Department of English, NCCU)   Time: 1- 4 pm Monday 15 April 2024       Venue: Ji-Tao Building, Rm 107 (季陶340107)    Abstract: Showcasing multidisciplinary artist Leanne Dunic’s transmedia works, such as her 2024 lyric novel with photographs Wet, this artist talk explores the idea of “amphibious poetics.” Amphibious poetics is a term Dunic uses to illustrate elements of her artistic practice, which, like amphibians, moves fluidly between environments and is plural in genre, form, content, aesthetic, and ecology. This talk reviews the artist’s body of work through a practice-as-research lens.   Bio: Leanne Dunic is a multidisciplinary artist and the author of transmedia books such as To Love the Coming End and One and Half of You. She holds an MFA in Lyric from the University of British Columbia and is currently a Ph.D candidate at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Leanne teaches fiction and hybrid forms at The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University. Her work can be found in places such as Orion, The Margins, Grain, Geist, and Los Angeles Review. A Whiteley Scholar, Leanne is the recipient of fellowships and residencies from Vermont College of Fine Arts, Banff Centre, Jack Straw, Hedgebrook, Akiyoshidai International Artist Village, and Colby Institute for Environmental Humanities. Leanne lives and relies on the unceded and occupied Traditional Territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), and səl̓il̓wətaʔł (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples   Extended Abstract: Works highlighted in this talk include Dunic’s recent photographic feature in Orion Magazine on the theme of “love and climate change.” This work uses reflections as an aesthetic and methodology that demonstrates the multiplicity of perspective and the idea of getting at different viewpoints on the same phenomena and involves collaboration with others as a method for critical-creative noticing and articulation. In these photographs, a reflection merges views from behind the artist with other perspective layers, creating awareness of undetectable surface(s) and acting as a metaphor for critical-creative noticing––seeing herself from an outside perspective––pointing to the verb definition of reflection in addition to the noun. Reflection becomes a framework within amphibious poetics that offers multiple perspectives, and extends the gaze of what she wants to look at.    Also featured is Dunic’s most recent work, Wet. In the book, a transient Chinese-American model working in Singapore thirsts for the unattainable: fair labor rights, the extinguishing of nearby forest fires, breathable air, healthy habitats for animals, human connection. She navigates place and placelessness while observing other migrant workers toiling outdoors despite the hazardous conditions. Through photographs and language shot through with empathy and desire, Wet unravels complexities of social stratification, sexual privation, and environmental catastrophe. This work will be used to discuss ways of translating the nonhuman world in the time of environmental crisis, as well as detail the role of amphibious poetics in the work’s creation.    Author and scholar Joy Castro describes literary artists as being “in multiple, shifting, fluid conversations with a shifting and fluid world.” Amphibious poetics expands on those conversations.  

⭐國際講座活動公告⭐ 講題：What Do Second Language Learners Need to Know about Metaphor? 講者：Professor Jeannette Littlemore 現職：Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Birmingham   由本校英語教學資源中心主辦、英國語文學系及語言學研究所合辦，邀請 Birmingham大學Jeannette Littlemore教授來為我們分享， 機會難得，歡迎老師同學踴躍報名參加????～～  參加英語教學資源中心系列講座及培訓活動將有機會獲得培訓證書，詳細資訊將公告於中心官網，敬請期待！ 一、 報名網址： https://reurl.cc/4jKE2v ，本活動即日起開放報名至額滿為止，名額有限，敬請提早報名。 二、日期：113年5月14日（二）早上10:00~12:30，並提供活動餐盒 三、地點：國立政治大學研究大樓250203教室 四、單位： 主辦單位：國立政治大學英語教學資源中心 合辦單位：國立政治大學英國語文學系、國立政治大學語言學研究所 指導單位：國家科學及發展委員會、國立政治大學研發處 五、聯絡人：英語教學資源中心 劉嫻慧小姐，分機60328   主辦單位：國立政治大學英語教學資源中心 合辦單位：國立政治大學英國語文學系、國立政治大學語言學研究所 指導單位：國家科學及發展委員會、國立政治大學研發處   Jeannette Littlemore Jeannette Littlemore is a Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Birmingham. Her research focuses on the role played by metaphor and metonymy in the understanding and expression of emotional experiences. She also explores the role played by metaphor and metonymy in language learning and cross-cultural communication.   報名系統：https://reurl.cc/4jKE2v  活動官網：https://reurl.cc/aLOQ6l  更多資訊詳見：http://www.eminccu.com  FB：https://www.facebook.com/nccu.emi/   IG：https://www.instagram.com/nccu.emi/

【EARN Public Talk】 Speaker: Ed Lin (Writer, US) Chair: Li-hsin Hsu (English, NCCU) Time: 10-12 noon 19 March 2024 Venue: Ji-Tao Building Rm 309 NCCU Title: I Didn't See You Until Now: The Rising Profile of Taiwanese Americans in Media and IRL Abstract: In recent years, Taiwanese culture and history has been integrated into storylines of hit U.S. series, an Academy Award-winning film, and even on the sports page. There are more Taiwanese American authors than ever. But the Taiwanese identity only seems to be newly emerging in the U.S.; it has always been present, just subtle. Yes, there are certainly more Taiwanese Americans than ever, and that's a big part of the higher profile, but the larger catalyst might be that the generation after martial law in Taiwan was lifted can be more assertive in their identity as "Taiwanese." For me, one big sign was literally a sign change. One of my favorite restaurants recently changed its name from "Famous Pork Chop House" to "Taiwan Pork Chop House." I always knew they were Taiwanese because it had fried pork chops and chicken legs with pickled vegetables, and shaved-ice desserts. When a new generation took over, they decided to put "Taiwan" in the name, and updated the decor to include Taiwanese items. Maybe customers acquainted with Taiwanese cuisine would immediately know, but the vast number of non-Asian visitors would have no idea. Now they know, and so does most of America. Bio: Ed Lin is a Taiwanese-American writer, actor and novelist. He is the first author to win three Asian American Literary Awards.[1] His first novel, Waylaid (2002) won a Members' Choice Award at the Asian American Literary Awards and also a Booklist Editors' Choice Award in Fiction in 2002.[2] Lin has written a series of crime novels revolving around Chinese-American cop Robert Chow and set in 1976 New York City Chinatown, beginning with This Is A Bust (2007) (Kaya Press), which won a Members' Choice Award at the Asian American Literary Awards. The sequel, Snakes Can't Run, was published in 2010, followed with One Red Bastard in 2012, both by Minotaur Books.

 We are pleased to announce that Kevin Corrigan, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities, will deliver the 50th EARN public lecture, entitled “How Plato’s Republic Gave Birth to the World of the Imagination” on Tuesday, 26 March 2024. All are welcome.    Speaker: Kevin Corrigan, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities, Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, Emory University, Atlanta   Title: “How Plato’s Republic Gave Birth to the World of the Imagination: reading Plato from the 4th century BCE to the 12th century CE”   Chair: John Michael Corrigan (柯瑞強), Professor, Department of English, NCCU   Time: 1:10-4 pm Tuesday, 26 March, 2024     Venue: Ji-Tao Building, Rm 309 / 地點：季陶340309室   Abstract: Plato is often understood as a fierce critic of art (because of his critique of poetry in Republic 2-3 and 10) and an enemy of the imagination (because Socrates ranks imagination lowest on the Divided Line simile). This lecture argues that both these common views are at best one-sided and at worst simply false. In Republic 6-7, by contrast, Socrates presents a positive view of art and, from these books, a strikingly positive view of the higher imagination is developed by later thinkers such as Plotinus, Proclus, etc. and transmitted to the Islamic world where it becomes the forerunner of classical modern views such as that of Coleridge and others.   Bio:  Professor Kevin Corrigan is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. He is the author, translator, and editor of twenty books, including seven monographs, most notably A Less Familiar Plato (Cambridge UP, 2023); Love, Friendship, Beauty and the Good (Cascade Book, 2018); Reason, Faith and Otherness in Neoplatonic and Early Christian Thought (Ashgate Press, 2013); Mind, Soul and Body in the 4th Century: Evagrius of Pontus and Gregory of Nyssa (Ashgate Press, 2009); Plato's Dialectic at Play: Structure, Myth, and Argument in the Symposium (Penn State Press, 2004); Plotinus: A Practical Introduction to Neoplatonism (Purdue University Press, 2004); and Plotinus' Theory of Matter - Evil and the Question of Substance (Peeters Press, 1996). His one hundred and thirty-seven refereed articles and book chapters span the gamut from classics to philosophy to religion to literature and have been published in journals and collected volumes all over the world. The EARN (Enlightenment and Romanticism Network) at NCCU | Facebook

NSC Project Talk  Lecturer：Renfeng Duann（Assistant Professor of General Education Center, National TaiTung University ) Topic：Corpus approach to metaphor analysis: the case study of newspaper editorials and presidential speeches Time：2023/11/29（三）9：10～12：00 Venue：Ji-tao Bldg. 340309 ＊＊＊Please bring your own laptop＊＊＊

Exploring Test Design and Test-based Studies  In this talk, I will provide a concise overview of standardized language test design, enhanced with real examples from local standardized English proficiency tests. Additionally, I will share insights from studies based on these tests. The goal is to furnish students with a clearer understanding of test design and the principles involved in conducting related studies based on test results.

TESOL X EMI Insights We are pleased to extend our invitation for your participation in a bilateral discussion between Taiwan and Malaysia, organized by the Department of English, National Chengchi University. This discussion aims to enhance our understanding of the different aspects of English-Medium Instruction (EMI) in Taiwan and the English teacher training program in Malaysia. This event presents a unique opportunity to learn about English teacher education outside Taiwan, providing a broader perspective on various aspects of promoting English language instruction. We eagerly anticipate your involvement in this conversation. Kindly register by November 13, 2023, using the following link: https://forms.gle/FAgbQm6tMrbSwz2SA