Onur Aydın is Assistant Professor at the Department of Russian Language and Literature, Anatolian University (Eskisehir, Turkey). He previously worked at Istanbul and Gazi Universities. He received his PhD in Russian literature from Gazi University (Ankara) in 2021. He published PhD dissertation as a book titled “Lev Gumilev’s Theory of Passionarity and a Study on the Theory in Russian Literature: Peter I” in March 2022. His research interests include Russian language, literature, history, semiotics, imagology, comparative literature, and cross-cultural studies.
Bojia Guo is a lecturer in the Department of Chinese at the College of Economic Communication and New Media, Guangdong University of Finance. She holds a PhD from The Education University of Hong Kong, with a primary research focus on the works of Mu Xin. She has published papers in academic journals such as Chung Wai Literary Quarterly. Her research interests include overseas Chinese literature and cosmopolitan literature. Currently, she is conducting a government-funded study on overseas Chinese newspaper supplements in the 1980s.
Hortensia Yu-yen Hsu is Associate Professor at National Chengchi University, National Taiwan Normal University, and Fu Jen Catholic University. She earned her PhD in Comparative Literature and Transcultural Studies from Fu Jen Catholic University in Taipei, Taiwan, in 2021. Her research examines literary narrative discourse through a sociocultural lens, with a particular focus on cultural transfers and the connections between literature, visual arts, and other artistic forms. Additionally, her work explores comparative studies of Hispanic and Taiwanese short novels, as well as young adult and children's literature. Currently, she is conducting a comparative analysis of the narrative discourse of the post-war generation in short stories from Taiwan and Spain, emphasizing the relationship between collective memory and narrative technique.
Nguyen Thanh Huong is a PhD student at the Graduate Institute of Development Studies, National Chengchi University, Taiwan. Her research spans cross-cultural communication, international relations, media politics, and tourism. Through her interdisciplinary approach, she aims to contribute to innovative strategies that promote cultural exchange and policy development in an increasingly interconnected world.
Margaret Kim is Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Tsing Hua University. She received her PhD in English from Harvard University. Her research interests include the Global Middle Ages, the Mongol empire, and medieval orientalism.
Kaochen Liao is Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures at Fo Guang University, Taiwan. Her research focuses on late capitalism, community, the gender binary related to intimacy and family, transgender studies, British writers such as Hanif Kureishi, Angela Carter, and Oscar Wilde, and drama studies. Liao has directed graduate plays for her department for 15 years.
Yi-chin Shih is Associate Professor in the Department of English at National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan. Her research interests encompass modern drama, women’s literature, and cultural studies. Her articles have been published in Journal of Modern Literature, The CEA Critic, The Explicator, Review of English and American Literature, and others. Her publications include essays on notable female playwrights, such as Susan Glaspell, Alice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, Caryl Churchill, Wendy Wasserstein, and Timberlake Wertenbaker.
Kai-su Wu is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Tamkang University. His articles have been published in Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, Tamkang Review, Review of English and American Literature, Chung Wai Literary Quarterly, EurAmerica, and other journals. His research interests include critical theory and new literatures in English. This article, published in Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture, marks his third research article on Michael Ondaatje.
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