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Name	Mavis Tseng
Office_Hour	週三14:00-15:00/週五12:00-13:00 (by appointment)
Office phone number	2772
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Category	中心主任
Job title	Associate Professor
Discipline	British/American literature, film studies, TED talks and contemporary issues, English presentation skills
Research expertise	British/American literature, urban literature, film studies
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Journal paper summary
Entry Year	Publication	Author
2017	2018,To Die Content’: Death and Writing in Chu Tien-Hsin’s ‘Man of La Mancha.’, Caesura—Journal of Philological and Humanistic Studies,4,2,	Mavis Tseng
2017	2017,A Young Girl Reading: Martha’s Quest through Literature and Realism in Martha Quest.,[sic] – a journal of literature, culture and literary translation,15,	Mavis Tseng
2016	2016,“Joy That Kills”: Female Jouissance in Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour.” ,22,2,pp29-38	Mavis Tseng
2016	2016,A Transparent Labyrinth: Ways of Seeing and Urban Experience in Playtime.,Chung Wai Literary Quarterly,45,2,pp83-115	Mavis Tseng
2009	2009,“Walter Benjamin’s Aura and the Return of the Gaze in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.”,Exit 9 ,10,pp3-11	Mavis Tseng
2006	2006,The Audience’s Desire Mechanism and Aestheticization of Ultraviolence in Funny Games.,Cultural Studies Monthly ,57,	Mavis Tseng

Seminar paper summary
Entry Year	Conference period	Publication	Author
2017	2017/07/06 2017/07/09	2017,Photography, Mobility, and Female Spectatorship in Amy Levy’s The Romance of a Shop,Annual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association （ACLA）,Utrecht, Netherland,2017/07/06-2017/07/09	Mavis Tseng
2016	2016/03/17 2016/03/20	2016,“To Die Content”: Death and Writing in Chu Tien-Hsin’s ‘Man of La Mancha.’” ,The Annual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association （ACLA）.,Harvard University ,2016/03/17-2016/03/20	Mavis Tseng
2015	2015/05/23 2015/05/23	2015,Transparent Windows/Walls? Connection and Disconnection and Urban Space in PlayTime,The 37th Comparative Literature Association of the R.O.C. Annual Meeting ,National Sun Yat-sen University ,2015/05/23	Mavis Tseng
2014	2014/03/20 2014/03/23	2014,"Mirroring Desire: Window Displays in The Lady’s Paradise and Sister Carrie.",The Annual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association （ACLA）.,New York University,2014/03/20-2014/03/23	Mavis Tseng
2012	2012/03/10 2012/03/10	2012,“Bartleby’s Obsession: The Violence of Language.”,The Fourth East Asia Conference on Comparative Literature: Obsession in Context,Soochow University,2012/03/10	Mavis Tseng
2011	2011/03/25 2011/03/25	2011,“A Sight/Site of Absence and Loss: Female Gaze and Urban Space in Villette.”,Survival Logics: Narrative and the Margins.,Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA,2011/03/25	Mavis Tseng
2010	2010/04/01 2010/04/04	2010,2010/04/01-2010/04/04	Mavis Tseng

Writing

Book Chapters
1. “The Remains of the Clones: The Uncanny Otherness within Ourselves in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go.” Declensions of the Self–A Bestiary of Modernity. Ed. Jean-Jacques Defert, Trevor Tchir, and Dan Webb. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008. pp. 317-33. (ISBN: 978-1847187260)
2. “The Flâneur’s Identity and Abj ection in Chu Tien-Hsin’s ‘The Old Capital.’” The Published Proceedings of the Fourth National Graduate Conference on Taiwan Literature. Tainan: National Museum of Taiwan Literature, 2007. pp. 501-26. (ISBN: 978-9860103007)
Translation
1. Profiles in Contemporary Social Theory.《當代社會理論大師》Ed. Anthony Elliott and Bryan S. Turner. Taipei: Weber, 2009.
  co-translated with Li Yen-Hui, et al. responsible for chapter 4 (Herbert Marcuse), 5 (Theodor Adorno), 6 (Walter Benjamin), 12 (Jacques Lacan), 15 (Julia Kristeva), 16 (Luce Irigaray), and 20 (Henri Lefebvre)
  
  Critical Social Theory: Culture, Society and Critique.《社會批判與文化》Tim Dant. Taipei: Weber, 2008.

Research ProjectsOverview/Summary
Year	Project name	Participant	Assignment	Project period	Subsidized / Entrusted organization	Attached file/Reference link	Note
106	Ways of Seeing, Rememering, and Forgetting in the 21st Century: Unreliable Narrators and Narrative Parodox in Julian Barnes’ and Ian McEwan’s Novels	Mavis Chia-Chieh Tseng	Principal Investigator	2017-05 ~ 2018-04	Ministry of Science and Technology	/

Educational background summary
School name	Country	Department	Degree	Starting date
Rutgers University	USA	Comparative Literature	Ph.D.	2008-09 ~ 2013-05
National Chiao Tung University	Taiwan	Foreign Literatures	M.A.	2005-09 ~ 2008-04
National Taiwan University	Taiwan	Foreign Languages and Literatures	B.A.	2001-09 ~ 2005-06

Year of award	Name of award	Awarding unit
106
105

Service organization/unit	Job title	Department	Starting date
National Taiwan University	Project Instructor	Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures	2014-08 ~ 2015-07
National Taiwan University	English Instructor	Foreign Language Center, College of Liberal Arts,	2014-07 ~ 2014-09
Rutgers University	Course Instructor/Lecturer	Department of Comparative Literature	2013-09 ~ 2014-05

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