Joyce C. H. Liu

Joyce C. H. Liu
劉紀蕙
Director, International Center for Cultural Studies
Personal details
Education University of Illinois (Ph.D.)

Joyce Chi-Hui Liu (Chinese: 劉紀蕙) is Professor of Critical Theory, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. Liu is the Chair of the Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies that she founded in 2002. She is also the director of the International Center for Cultural Studies of the University System of Taiwan.[1]

Education

Liu obtained a bachelor's degree in English literature in 1978 from Fu Jen Catholic University. She moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign for graduate study in comparative literature, earning a master's degree in 1980 and a Ph.D. in 1984.[1]

Career

Liu's works concentrate on the question of aesthetics, ethics, and politics, ranging from Marx, Freud and Lacan, to contemporary critical theories as well as Chinese political thoughts. She has been a critic of East-Asian modernity and internal coloniality, particularly through re-reading the Chinese intellectual history of the twentieth century and the contemporary political-economy in inter-Asian societies. She served as the chief editor of the only journal of cultural studies in Taiwan, Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies, from 2012-2107.[2] She is currently the Chair of the Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies that she founded in 2002.[2] She is also the director of the International Center for Cultural Studies of the University System of Taiwan.[2]

Selected publications

Among her publications, the representative works are the three co-edited volumes: East-Asian Marxisms and their Trajectories (Routledge 2017), European-East Asian Borders in Translation (Routledge 2014), Biopolitics, Ethics and Subjectivation (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2011) ;and the influential trilogy that she authored: The Topology of Psyche: The Post-1895 Reconfiguration of Ethics (2011), The Perverted Heart: The Psychic Forms of Modernity (2004), as well as Orphan, Goddess, and the Writing of the Negative: The Performance of Our Symptoms (2000).

Books

  • The Topology of Psyche: The Post-1895 Reconstruction of Ethics. Taipei: Flaneur, 2011. 446 ps. (NSC Publication Award 2011)
  • The Perverted Heart: The Psychic Forms of Modernity. Taipei: Ryefield Publisher, 2004. 368ps. (NICT Publication Award 2004)
  • Literature and Film: Image, Reality and Cultural Criticism. Taipei. 161 ps. (Publication sponsored by NSC)
  • The Performance of Our Symptoms. Taipei: Lixu Publisher, 2000. 470ps.
  • Eight Essays on Literature and the Other Arts: Intertextuality, Counterpoint and Cultural Interpretation. Taipei: San Ming Books Publisher. 193ps. (with review system)

Co-edited volumes

  • East-Asian Marxisms and their Trajectories. Eds. Joyce C.H. Liu & Viren Mirthy. London: Routledge, 2017.
  • European-East Asian Borders in Translation. Eds. Joyce C. H. Liu and Nick Vaughan-Williams. London: Routledge, 2013. Forthcoming.
  • Biopolitics, Ethics and Subjectivation. Eds. Joyce C.H. Liu & Alain Brossai, Yuan-Horng Chu, Rada Ivekovic. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2011.
  • Visual Culture and Critical Theory I: Empire, Asia and the Question of Subject. . Ed. Joyce Chi-Hui Liu. Taipei: Ryefield Publisher, 2006.
  • Visual Culture and Critical Theory II: Everyday Life and Popular Culture. . Ed. Joyce Chi-Hui Liu. Taipei: Ryefield Publisher, 2006.
  • Visual Theories and Cultural Studies. Ed. Joyce Chi-Hui Liu. Taipei: Chung Wai Publisher, 2002.
  • The Realms of the Other: Cultural Identities and Politics of Representation. Ed. Joyce Chi-Hui Liu. Taipei: Ryefield Publisher, 2000.
  • China as Sign, Taiwan as Icon. Ed. Joyce Chi-hui Liu. Taipei: Chungwai Wenxue, 2000.
  • Writing Taiwan. Eds. Chou Yingxung & Liu Chi-Hui Joyce. Taipei: Ryefield Publisher, 2000.

References

  1. 1 2 Curriculum vitae, National Chiao Tung University, retrieved 2018-10-09
  2. 1 2 3 "Joyce C.H. Liu". Graduate Institute for Social Research and Cultural Studies, NCTU. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  • Official website In Chinese
  • "Joyce C.H. Liu". Graduate Institute for Social Research and Cultural Studies, NCTU.
  • Liu, Joyce. "The Graduate Institute for Social Research and Cultural Studies". Professor. National Chiao Tung University. Retrieved 2013-07-26.
  • Liu, Joyce. "Inter Asia Cultural Study Faculty Page". Professor. Inter Asia Cultural Study. Retrieved 2017-03-16.
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