2025 DFLL Language Research/Teaching Graduate Student Seminar
Shih-Yi Huang
Job Title: Associate Professor
Office Hour: By appointment
Phone: (03)5715131 ext. 42705
E-Mail: shihyihuang [at] mx.nthu.edu.tw
Office: HSS BuildingA512
Education: Ph.D. in Theater Arts, Louisiana State University, USA
Teaching: Western Theatre History, Dramatic Theory, Contemporary American Theatre, American Literature, Introduction to Literature
Research Expertise: American Theatre, Cultural Studies, Medicine and Drama, Ethics
Journal Articles
〈A Farcical Tragedy: Communal Vision in George Bernard Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma: A Tragedy〉.《文山評論:文學與文化 The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture》. June 2017. (THCI-core).
"Utopia in Theatre: 'Mulian Rescues Mother Earth'"" in Ecocriticism in Taiwan: Identity, Environment, and the Arts. Edited by Chia-ju Chang and Scott Slovic, Lexington Books. June 2016.
"Intimate Ethics and National Politics in Tony Kushner's Angels in America." Taipei: NTU Studies in Language and Literature. 29期 (June 2013) , P87 – 115 (THCI-core)
"Who is Sylvia or Who Are We?: Alternative Subjectivity in Albee's The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?: Notes toward a Definition of Tragedy." New Taipei: Tamkang Review 42.1, Dec., 2011: 127-145. (THCI-core)
〈甘為他者盤飧:馬夏‧諾曼《晚安,媽》劇中之自殺以求重生〉. Ed. Hanping Chiu. Review of English and American Literature《英美文學評論》. Kaoshuang: Spring 2006: 181-203. (THCI-core)
Book Chapters
"A Reverse Alchemy: Capitalism, Nationalism, Epistemplogy, and Ethics in Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses." Kairos: Studies in Cultures and Literatures 1.1. Taipei: Crane. 2010. 75-92.
「視界、跨界、境界:劇場與電影之研究展望暨張靄珠教授榮退學術研討會」“Kill to Claim a Clan: Painful BorderCrossing in Cherrie Moraga's The Hungry Woman: The Mexican Medea.”國立陽明交通大學。June 24, 2021.
第二十八屆英美文學研討會。“A Naturalistic Scam? The Badiouean Spectator inTopdog/Underdog” Oct 2020 。國立政治大學
ICATD 2020: 14. International Conference on American Theatre and Drama.“The Imminent Other in Anna Deavere Smith'S Performance.” July 06-07,2020 in Singapore, Singapore.
2019. The Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities. “Little Certain Happiness, Fake Death and Community in The Death Chronicles.” March 2019.
2015「生命倫理與醫學人文」研討會︰身體、心理與疾病書寫」高雄醫學院(Center of Languages and Culture, Kaohsiung Medical University) "To protect or to negate." Oct. 2, 2015.
ACLA 2015 "Forgiveness and Time—Gendered Trauma in Women's Theatre" March 26-28, 2015. "Unsettling the Sense of Community in the Xiao Zi-Han Dance Troupe's 'Love Gleaners'"
International Symposium on Literature and the Environment in East Asia (ISLE-EA). Okinawa, Japan. Nov. 22-23, 2014.
"A Farcical Tragedy: Community in George Bernard Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma: A Tragedy" 英美文學研討會(政大)--Nov. 1, 2014
"黑人劇場中的缺席父親" 中華民國比較文學會議 高師大 May 17, 2014
"Trauma and the Production of Memory in Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive and Diana Son's Stop Kiss" The First International Deleuze Studies in Asia Conference May 31-June 2, 2013 (Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan)
"Bodily Orifices as a Site of Cultural Intervention in Cherrie Moraga's The Hungry Woman: The Mexican Medea" 3rd Asian Conference on Cultural Studies (the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia) May 24-26 2013 (the Ramada Osaka, Osaka, Japan)
"Spectacle and space: epistemological anxiety (ethics) in Jose Rivera's Marisol" 20th Annual Conference of the English and American Literature Association (EALA) of the Republic of China & English Department, Fu Jen Catholic University, Nov. 24 2012 (Taipei, Republic of China)
"Who is Sylvia or who are we?: Alternative Subjectivity in Albee's The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia?" 34th Annual Comparative Drama Conference Loyola Marymount University, March 25-27, 2010 (Los Angeles, CA)
"The Disruption of Male Sexual Discourse in Paula Vogel's Hot 'n' Throbbing" SBAI Grad Conference, University of Rochester, Feb 25-26, 2010 (Rochester, New York)
"Two Split or a Merged One: Ethical Reconsideration in Mary Zimmerman' Metamorphoses" National Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) April 8-11, 2009 (New Orleans)
"The Wisdom of Love: The Interplay of Mythos and Logos in David Henry Hwang's The Sound of a Voice" 2009 SETC Theatre Symposium, "The Prop's the Thing: Stage Properties Reconsidered" at Wake Forest University, April 3-5, 2009 (Winston-Salem, North Carolina)
"When Baby Gives Birth to Parents: The Dramatization of the Stasis of Time in Paula Vogel's And Baby Makes 7" Comparative Drama Conference Loyola Marymount University, March 26-28, 2009 (Los Angeles, CA)
"A Reverse Alchemy: Capitalism, Epistemology and Ethics in Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses" Theatre History Symposium of the 2009 Mid-America Theatre Conference, March 3-5, 2009 (Chicago, IL)
"Self-Devouring and Self-Proliferation: the Inner Revolution in Marsha Norman's 'Getting Out'" LSU Women's and Gender Studies Student Conference, March 24, 2006. Baton Rouge, LA
"The Construction of Characters through Narrative in John Lyly's Galatea" 16th Annual Mardi Gras Conference at Louisiana State University, Feb. 10, 2006 (Baton Rouge, LA)
"Eaten by the Other" English and American Literature Association Conference, December, 2004 (Hsinchu, Taiwan)
Research Projects
2018/08 - 2019/07
Space, Epistemology and Ethics in Contemporary American Theater
Principle Investigator, Research Project, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
2014/08 - 2015/07
Medicine and Drama
Principle Investigator, Research Project, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
2012/08 - 2013/07
Venues of Immunization: Death, Love and Community in Contemporary Taiwanese Theatre
Principle Investigator, Research Project, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Professional Experience
2018/02 - Present
Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
2017/08 - 2018/01
Associate Professor, Department of English
Tamkang University, Taiwan
2010/07 - 2017/07
Assistant Professor, Department of English
Tamkang University, Taiwan