2007 – 2013. Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
Dissertation: Toward a Politics of the Common: History, Subjectivity and Emancipation
Advisors: Kenneth Reinhard and Shu-mei Shih(史書美)
2001 – 2005. M.A., Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.
1998 – 2001. B.A., Foreign Languages and Literature, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.
“Enjoy Your Sinophone.”Sinophone Studies Across Disciplines: A Reader. Ed. Howard Chiang and Shu-mei Shih. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 209-225.
“‘Tiger’s Leap into the Past’: Comparative Temporality and the Politics of Redemption in The Orphan of Asia.” Comparatizing Taiwan. Ed. Ping-hui Liao and Shu-mei Shih. New York: Routledge, 2015. 33-58.
「論現在:席蒙東、史蒂格勒與人文學科的危機」(forthcoming May or June 2024)
“‘One More Step’: The Promises and Perils of Left Prometheanism,” Panel: “Ideology and Science in the Multinaturalist Conjuncture,” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting, June 16-18, 2022.
“Will the Real Taiwanese Subject Please Stand Up? On Critique, Radicality, and the Question of Decolonization,” Panel: “Rethinking Traveling Theory: Re-Articulations and Hundred Years of Foreign Literature Studies in Taiwan.”, American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Pre-Conference Seminar, June 16, 2022.
“Enjoy Your Sinophone! Current Debate and the Path Forward.” Sinophone Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Critical Reflections, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, Apr. 12-13, 2019.
“Untimely Meditations: The Contemporary, the Philosophy of Walking, and Other Related Ethical Matters in Remains of Life.” Musha 1930: History, Memory, Culture, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, Oct. 9-11, 2017.
“Between Rupture and Consistency: Psychoanalyzing Politics or Politicizing Psychoanalysis?” Affect, Politics, Psychoanalysis Conference at National Taiwan University, Taiwan, June 21-23, 2013.
“Cultural Politics qua contradictio in adiecto? Alain Badiou and the Question of Culture.” Culture as Critical Theory Conference, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 2012.
“Beyond Finitude: From a Dismembered Body to a Subjectivizable Body in Li Ang’s Visible Ghosts.” Contemporary Women’s Writing Association Conference, National Taiwan University, Taiwan. July 11-13, 2012.
“From Critique of Ideology to Jargon of Authenticity: The Other Question in Wuhe’s Remains of Life.” AAS-ICAS Joint Conference, Honolulu, USA. Mar. 31-Apr. 3, 2011.
“Tiger’s Leap into the Past: The Orphan of Asia and the Politics of Redemption.” Comparatizing Taiwan Conference, UCLA and UCSD, Los Angeles and San Diego, USA. Jan. 21-24, 2011.
Translations
史書美 (2011)。〈華語語系的概念〉。吳建亨譯。《馬來西亞華人研究學刊》 (Journal of Malaysian Chinese Studies) ,14,頁41-55。
* Shih, Shu-mei. “The Concept of the Sinophone.” PMLA 126.3 (2011): 709-718.
史書美 (2016)。〈何謂華語語系研究?〉。吳建亨、劉威辰合譯。《文山評論》,9.2 ,頁105-123。
* Shih, Shu-mei. “The Concept of the Sinophone.” PMLA 126.3 (2011): 709-718; Shih, Shu-mei. “Theory, Asia and the Sinophone.” Postcolonial Studies 13.4 (2010): 465-484.
Invited Talks, Lectures and Other Academic-Related Activities
2024 Dec. 13-15. TBD Theme: “6G: Genesis, Generativity, Gender, Genetics, Genealogy, Genocide,” Asia Theories Network Taipei December Workshop 2024, National Taiwan University.
2024 Jun. 21-22 “From Critique of Computation to Critical Computation: Abduction as the Logic of Fictioning,” AI: Facts, Fantasies, Fabrications, Asia Theories Network Taipei Workshop 2024, National Taiwan University
2023 Jul. 13 國立台灣師範大學玉山學者史書美暑期課程〈華語語系與其不滿〉(Sinophone Studies and Its (Dis)contents),客座講座,“Enjoy Your Sinophone!”,國立台灣師範大學。
2023 Apr. 29〈世界的復魅:負人類世與政治的定言令式〉(The Re-Enchantment of the World: The Neganthropocene and the Political Categorical Imperative),國科會人文社會科學研究中心「反思人類世」工作坊,國立台灣師範大學。
2015 Sept. 25 “‘I am one who waits’: Heidegger’s Being and Fanon’s Time.” Taiwan Humanities Society, National Taiwan University.
2015 June 5 NKNU International Symposium on Asian American Literature and Asia: Pedagogy, History, Memories, respondent, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Department of English.
2014 Sept. 27 Badiou Reading Group: The Rebirth of History, National Chiao Tung University, Institute of Social Research and Culture Studies.
2014 Jun. 23 The Form-of-Life Conference, discussant, National Taiwan Normal University, Department of English.
2014 May 27 “Thinking Violence, Reading Violence: Some Reflections on the Disjunction between Reason and Revolt.” National Taiwan Normal University, Department of English.
2014 May 02〈人思,物何在:當代歐陸哲學的本體轉向〉中華民國比較文學學會, 國立成功大學。
Research Projects
2023-2024 Ministry of Education: Designing the Class Discussion Model on the Basis of Bernard Stiegler’s Concept of Hermeneutical Web(教育部教學實踐研究計畫:以斯蒂格勒的詮釋網概念設計課堂討論模式),PHA1120647。
2022-2026. Ministry of Science and Technology Research Project: “Thinking Politics in the Age of Post-Humanity: Prometheanism and the Commitment to Critique”(科技部2030優秀年輕學者研究計畫:後人類時代的政治思考:普羅米修斯主義與批判的承諾),MOST 111-2628-H-007-005-MY4。
2020-2023. Ministry of Science and Technology Research Project: “The Posthuman and Its Vicissitudes”(科技部吳大猷獎研究計畫:後人類與其變異),MOST 109-2423-H-007-001-MY3。
2017-2020. Ministry of Science and Technology Research Project: “The Politics of Time and the Time of Politics: A Preliminary Investigation”(科技部專題研究計畫:初探時間的政治與政治的時間),MOST 106-2410-H-007-097-MY3。
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
2022 Aug. – Present
Associate Professor,
National Tsing Hua University
2017 Aug. – 2022 Jul.
Assistant Professor,
National Tsing Hua University
2014 Aug. – 2017 Jul.
Assistant Professor,
National Kaohsiung Normal University
2014 Feb. – 2014 Jul.
Assistant Professor,
National Tsing Hua University
2013 Aug. – 2013 Oct.
Postdoctoral Fellow, College of Liberal Arts
National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan.