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CURRICULUM VITAE

NAME: Alvin Dahn / 陳建龍

E-mail address: alvindahn@gmail.com

Blogs:

Research Interests:
  • graphic narrative & photographic narrative (present)
  • ekphrastic narrative (present)
  • food discourse (present)
  • humor & laughter (present)
  • modern & contemporary English poetry (2000-2015)
  • gift theory (2008-2012)
  • eschatology and the Gothic (2008,2010)
  • Otaku (おたく) and the urban space (2008-2009)
  • homosexual economy in The Canterbury Tales (2006-2007)
  • The Decadents and the Zhulinqixian (竹林七賢 1998-2000)

I. EDUCATION

2010-2015: Ph.D., Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University

2005-2009: MA; Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University

1996-2000: MA; Graduate Institute of Translation and Interpretation, National Taiwan Normal University

1999: Exchange Program on Comparative Literature, Leiden University, NL. (supervisor: Professor Lloyd Haft; project: Between the Decadents and Zhulingqixian/竹林七賢)

1989-1993: BA; Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Sun Yat-sen University


II. RESEARCH PROJECTS

2021 (Aug.)-2023 (Jul.): Food Humor: Food Imagery and the Displacement Theory (《飲食幽默: 飲食意象與錯置幽默》) MOST 110-2410-H-128 -012 -MY2

2019 (Aug.)-2020 (Jul.): "In Its Place There Is a Language of Images": John Berger's Ways of Seeing, Mechanic Reproduction, and the Narrative of Digital Reproduction (《「圖像語言取代藝術威權」: 約翰・伯杰機械複製的觀看與數位複製的敘事》) P10814

2018 (Aug.)-2019 (Jul.): The Aegis and the Migrant Mother: Ekphrastic Strategies of Photographic Narrative (《盾牌上的梅杜莎與《移工媽媽》:影像敘事的圖說策略》) MOST 107-2410-H-128-008

2017 (Aug.)-2018 (Jul.): Food Narratology: Food Discourse as Ritual, Political, Traumatic-Therapeutic, and Local-Colored Narratives in Contemporary Literature (《飲食敘事學: 當代文學中的儀式性、政治、癒創、及鄉情之飲食敘事》) P10617

2016 (Aug.)-2017 (Jul.): Food Rhetoric: Food Writing and Food Narrative of M. F. K. Fisher (《飲食修辭學: 費雪的飲食書寫與飲食敘事》) MOST 105-2410-H-128-027

III. PUBLICATIONS

2023:  " 'Something Wrong with Fat, Happy, Green People?' —Plague Discourse in The Green Leopard PlagueTumkang Review. (under review)

2022: "Denying and Dining in Sense and Sensibility: A Food Discourse on Mrs. Jennings’ Healing Feeding" (不吃不理性:從瑪麗安的情傷,看《理性與感性》的拒食、進食,以及餵食) (to be published in The Wenshan Review 文山評論 Vol.15 No.2 Jun. 2022) THCI (PRINT ISSN: 2077-1282 )

2020: "Alvin Dahn and Lloyd Haft: Genuine Pretending: On the Philosophy of the Zhuangzi, Hans-Georg Moeller and Paul J. D ’ Ambrosio" (review). The Philosophy of Humor Yearbook. Vol. 1: Issue 1. First published: 01 Sep 2020. 289-293. A&HCI (ONLINE ISSN: 2698-718-X; PRINT ISSN: 2698-7171) 

2019: "Plato and Deadpool Walk into a Bar: Superiority in Plato's View on Comics and Incongruity in a Superhero's Foul Mouth." (〈賤的幽默: 從柏拉圖的笑到死侍的嘴〉), published in Taiwan Humanities Society Bulletin, Issue 13, 2019.06.08. (《台灣人文學社通訊》第13期. 2019年春季號)

2019: "When Words Speak to to the Point: Photographic Narrative of Val Williams" (〈看圖說話第一人-法爾.威廉斯: 文字敘事與視覺敘事重疊的瞬間〉), published in Taiwan Humanities Society Bulletin, Issue 12, 2018.12.25. (《台灣人文學社通訊》第12期. 2018年秋季號)

2018: "Souvenir Food and Gourmet Cuisine: Choice of Food and Construct of Identity" (〈名產(媒)與美食(介):飲食作為身分認同的技術之一:名產(媒)〉), published in CLAROC Number 26. September 2018. 19-22. (《中華民國比較文學學會第26期電子報》)

2018:  "Philosophical Fetishism: Steampunk" (〈哲學式戀物:蒸氣龐克〉), published in EALA, Issue 3, December 31, 2017. 26-28. (《英美文學第三期電子報》2018)

2017:  "Obliquity and Velocity" (〈曲勝於直,瞬勝於實〉), published in EALA Issue 2, July 20, 2017.  14-15. (《英美文學第二期電子報》2017)

2016: "The Deadpool Subversion vs the Superhero Conventions , " (〈超級不英雄?〈從《死侍》看圖文小說的英雄傳統〉), published in CLAROC Number 16. March 2016. n.p. (《中華民國比較文學學會第16期電子報》)

2015: "From Mediality/Materiality to Photographic Medi-Materiality, " (〈從媒介與物質之分到攝影的媒物共性〉), published in CLAROC Number 15. December 2015. n.p. (《中華民國比較文學學會第15期電子報》)

2015: "Life Is a Bitter Aspic: The Translation of Food into Poetics in Wallace Stevens' Poems,"  (〈「人生是一道苦苦的冷盤」:史蒂文生的現代詩與食物詩學的演繹〉) published in Cross-cultural Studies Volume 2, Number 1. March 2015.  25-57. (《文化越界》第二卷 第一期) THCI (ISSN: 2071-4971)

2014: Food Poetics in Modern Poetry: Stevens, Williams, and Lee (外文所博論:現代詩中的食物詩學:史蒂文斯、威廉斯、李立揚)

2013: Trans. "A Glimpse at the Development of the Environmental Documentary in Taiwan" (by Tsung-lung Tsai, Li-ping Yu, and Chin-yuan Ke) published in Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies Volume 39, Number 1, March 2013. 161-176. A&HCI (ISSN: 1729-689-7)

2012: "The Gift in Between: The Bataillean Gift that Defies Dichotomy and its Functions in the Biblical Salomé" (〈交界的禮物〉) published in Cross-cultural Studies Volume 1, Number 7. March 2012. 175-199. (《文化越界》第一卷 第七期) THCI (ISSN: 2071-4971)

2011: Book chapter: "A Constraining Mirror: the Subjective Camera in Philippe Harel’s La Femme Deféndue" published in (In)Sight: Visual Culture and Aesthetics (禁忌的觀看--侷限的觀看以拉岡式的第一人稱運鏡談《禁忌的女人》in 《洞見:視覺文化與美學》) (馮品佳、趙順良主編.《洞見:視覺文化與美學》. 台北:書林,2011. 02. 198-215.(ISBN: 978-957-445-405-1)

2010: “Days Past Uncounted and Uncalendared: Gothic Traces in The Road” in 2010 International Graduate Student Conference on Literary and Cultural Studies (第三屆文學與文化研究國際研究生研討會論文集, 2010)

2009: Master thesis: The Gift Theory of the Biblical Salomé (英語所碩論:聖經莎樂美的禮物經濟)

2009: “Home, Sweet Home: The Housebound Phenomenon as a Modern Resistance” in 2009 International  Graduate Student Conference on Literary and Cultural Studies (第二屆文學與文化研究國際研究生研討會論文集, 2009)

2007: “Something Queer in the Rear: A Rereading of The Shipman’s Tale” published in Review of English and American Literature (REAL), Vol.11 (translated into Chinese and published as: 英美文學評論-第十一期: 慾/「益」結金蘭:〈水手的故事〉中起源於男色的資金流動) THCI CORE   (ISSN: 1024-285-6)

2000: Master thesis: The Faint Flash of a Fickle Fate: Rediscovering Dowson Through Translation of His Verses (翻譯所碩論:顛沛中,微光閃爍:道森詩作中譯)


IV. CONFERENCE PAPERS

2023: "Saying This for Your Good" : Three Types of Care-Takers in Jane Austen's Emma (〈「我是為你好」:珍.奧斯汀《艾瑪》中的三種照顧-飲食、陪伴、媒妁-作為角色意象〉), presented at the 31th EALA Conference 第31屆英美文學學術研討會 on October 14, 2023.

2023: The Mojo in the Wind: The Nomadic Journeys of Joanne Harris' Chocolat Tetralogy (〈「起風,就走」:不斷遷徙,歸零重啟-喬安.哈里斯的《巧克力四部曲》〉), presented at the 45th CLAROC Conference (第45屆全國比較文學會議) on June 17, 2023.

2022: "Lonely Together: Solitude Community and Food Images in Shinya Shokudō" (〈孤獨與共:《深夜食堂》中亦獨亦群的飲食意象〉), presented at the 30th EALA Conference 第30屆英美文學學術研討會 on October 29, 2022.

2022: " Speed Up Humor: Digital Dromology and Internet Memes" (〈速度幽默:數位速度學的社交義肢與網路迷因圖的幽默生成〉), presented at the 44th CLAROC Conference (第44屆全國比較文學會議) on June 15, 2022.

2021: "Food Porn in Chocolat: The Non-Material in Material Culture" (《巧克力》的食色文學(Food Porn):物質文化中的非物質), presented at the 29th EALA Conference 第29屆英美文學學術研討會 on October 30, 2021.

2021: "'Nobody Eat! Let Me Take a Selfie.'--The Food Selfie as a Graphic Narrative" presented at the 2021 International Conference on Cultural Shock and Social Responsibilities in the New Media Era (2021年新媒體時代下的文化衝擊與社會責任國際研討會) on June 18, 2021.

2021: " 'Something Wrong with Fat, Happy, Green People?' —Plague Discourse in The Green Leopard Plague" (「發綠、發福、快樂-有什麼不對?」:《綠豹瘟疫》與後人類世的瘟疫論述), presented at the 43th CLAROC Conference (第43屆全國比較文學會議) on June 5, 2021.

2020: "Revisiting Waking Life: Dream as a State of Philosophical Questioning" (〈再訪《夢醒人生》: 夢作為哲學質疑的狀態〉),  presented at the 28th EALA Conference (第28屆英美文學學術研討會) on October 31, 2020.

2020: "Love, Death + Robots: Techno Animism and Kokoro" (《愛、死亡、機械人》:科技泛靈與機械之心〉),  presented at the 42th CLAROC Conference (第42屆全國比較文學會議) on May 29-30, 2020.

2019: "Techne = Art : Photographic Narrative of Val Williams" (〈技術即藝術:威廉斯影像敘事與媒介論述〉),  presented at the 2019 Taiwan Humanities Society Conference (2019年台灣人文學社年會) on November 23-24, 2019.

2019: "Midnight Snack and Daytime Cafe: Food, Drink, and Healing Narrative in Comics" (〈一夜小酌、二代咖啡:飲食、圖像、療癒論述〉),  presented at the 41th CLAROC Conference (第41屆全國比較文學會議) on June 22, 2019.

2018: "Picturesque Discourse & Discursive Picture: Ekphrastic Narratives from "Musée des Beaux Arts" to Shinya Shokudō (〈看圖說話→說話看圖:從〈美術館〉到《深夜食堂》的圖像敘事〉), to be presented at the 26th EALA Conference (第26屆英美文學學術研討會) on October 27, 2018.

2018: "The Post-Digital Steampunk: To Type, to Write, and the Typewriting in Uncommon Type" (〈後數位的蒸氣龐克:《非常書寫》的打字機書寫〉), presented at the 40th CLAROC Conference (第40屆全國比較文學會議) on May 26, 2018.

2017: "The Stationed Sheriff and the Wandering Killer: Domopolitcs in No Country for Old Men" (〈不動的警長,流動的殺手:《險路》中一方鎮守與四處為家的歸宿政治〉), presented at the 25th EALA Conference (第25屆英美文學學術研討會) on October 24, 2017.

2017: "You Are What You Eat: The Rituality of Fisher’s Culinary Literature " (〈人食合一:費雪飲食文學的儀式性〉), presented at the 39th CLAROC Conference (第39屆全國比較文學會議) on May 20, 2017.

2016: "Tattooed Bodies & Literary Corpus: Tattoo Narrative in Blindspot" (〈紋身.文身:《盲點》的紋身敘事〉), presented at the 38th CLAROC Conference (第38屆全國比較文學會議) on May 21, 2016.

2015: "Man Proposes, Object Disposes: Artifacts and Material Agency in Warehouse 13" (〈體的失能,物的可能:《十三號倉庫》的文物與物質施為能力〉), accepted for the 37th CLAROC Conference (第37屆全國比較文學會議). (May 23, 2015)

2014: "The Intended Food, the Extended Mind: The Memory Prodcution of Food in Modern Poetry," presented at Envisioning "Things": An International Conference on Material Culture at NSYSU (「以物觀物:臺灣、東亞與世界的互文脈絡」國際研討會) on Oct. 17-18, 2014.

2014: "Life Is a Bitter Aspic: The Translation of Food into Poetics in Wallace Stevens' Poems," presented at the Fifth Translation and Trans-cultural Conference at N.C.C.U. (第五屆翻譯與跨文化國際學術研討會) on Nov. 15, 2014.

2014: "Distancing and Channeling: Food Agency and the Memory Machine, " accepted for 7th International Deleuze Studies Conference: Models, Machines and Memories. Department of Interior Design, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey. (July 14-16, 2014)

2014: "The Deleuzean Plums: Food Affect in W. C. Williams’ Poetics, " accepted for Conference on Deleuze’s Cultural Encounters With the New Humanities. Department of English and the Technoscience Culture and Research Centre, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Hong Kong. (June 9-12, 2014)

2014:"Shinya Shokudō, a Deleuzean Shokudō: The Nodal Point of Time and Space and the Memory in Food, " accepted for The 2nd International Deleuze Studies in Asia Conference. Toyonaka Campus, Osaka University, Japan. (June 6-8, 2014)

2013: "Food Poetics and the Asian-American Memory: Li-Young Lee"("食餘.時餘:李立揚(Li-Young Lee)的食物詩學與亞美記憶"), presented at the 36th CLAROC Conference (第36屆全國比較文學會議) on May 17, 2014.

2012: "Pain Is Human": the Suffering Discourse of Modern Poetry in Wallace Stevens' "Esthetique du Mal," presented at "Health and Illness in Culture" International Conference on December 21, 2012.

2012: "The Readable Body and the Retrievable God'" ("神的檔案,人的讀取"), presented at the 35th CLAROC Conference (第35屆全國比較文學會議) on May 5, 2012.

2011: "The Gift in Between," presented at the Third Translation and Trans-cultural Conference at N.C.C.U. (第三屆翻譯與跨文化國際學術研討會) on Nov. 12, 2011.

2010: “The Gift of Love” (translated into Chinese as “愛的禮物”), presented at the 33rd CLAROC Conference (第33屆全國比較文學會議) on May 22nd, 2010.

2010: “Days Past Uncounted and Uncalendared: Gothic Traces in The Road,” presented at the Third NCTU Graduate Conference on April 30th, 2010.

2009: “Home, Sweet Home: The Housebound Phenomenon as a Modern Resistance,” presented at the Second NCTU Graduate Conference on June 5th, 2009.

2009: assigned respondent at the Fourth Conference of the NTU Shakespeare Forum (第四屆莎士比亞論壇)

2000: “A Talk on the Poetic Translation of Ernest Christopher Dowson”, a seminar talk delivered at the Graduate Institute of Interpretation and Translation


V. AWARDS

2020: Excellence in Teaching, Shih Hsin University (世新大學109學年度教學績優獎)

2018: Excellence in Teaching, Shih Hsin University (世新大學107學年度教學績優獎)

2017: Excellence in Tutoring, Shih Hsin University (世新大學106學年度績優輔導老師優良獎)

2015: MOST Subsidy Program for Starting Assistant Professorship /科技部補助大專校院延攬特殊優秀人才措施獎勵

2013: (Autumn) Excellence in Teaching, Taipei Medical University (English Literature; Conversation)

2013: (Spring) Excellence in Teaching, Taipei Medical University (English Literature; English Reading, English Conversation)

2012: (Autumn) Excellence in Teaching, Taipei Medical University (English Literature; English Reading)

2012: (Spring) Excellence in Teaching, Taipei Medical University (English Literature; English Reading)

2011: (Autumn) Excellence in Teaching, Taipei Medical University

2011: (Spring) Excellence in Teaching, Taipei Medical University

2010: (Autumn) Excellence in Teaching, Taipei Medical University

2010: (Spring) Excellence in Teaching, Taipei Medical University

2008: Literary Award of the Department of English at NTNU (師大英語系文學獎學金第一名)

2008: Yang Ching-mai Scholarship (楊景邁教授學術研究獎學金)

2006: Scholarship of the Department of English at NTNU (師大英語系優秀學生獎學金)

1999: Sinological Research Subsidy, Leiden University (萊頓大學漢學獎助金)


VI. WORK EXPERIENCE

2018 (Aug.)-2019 (Jul.): Director of the Center of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language (CTC), Shih-Hsin University (世新大學華語文教學中心主任)

2014 (Sept.)-2015(June): English Department (Oral Training), National Taiwan University

2012 (Sept.)-present: English Department (English & American Lit.), National Chengchi University

2012 (Summer): International Academic Competence Workshop: Academic Writing, NTNU.

2011 (Sept.)-2012 (June) : English Department (English Composition), National Taiwan Normal University

2011(Sept.)-2015(June): Department of Applied Foreign Languages (English & American Lit. I; Introduction to Literature), Tatung University

2010(Sept.)-present: English Instructor of Shih Hsin University (Selected Readings of English Lit.; Reading Strategy)

2010(June)-2015(June): English Instructor of Taipei Medical University (Selected Readings of English Lit; English Reading)

2009-2011: Instructor of the English Training Center at NTNU (師大英語文教學中心) (Basic Conversation; Intermediate Writing)

2005-2009: Assistant to Professor Su Tsi-Chung on National Science Council projects

1997-2011: Instructor of the English Department, Christian Chung-Deh College (English Lit.; Intro to LIt.; Etymology; Mythology; Biblical Lit.)

1996-1998: English Conversation Teacher at China Youth Service Association

1997-1998: Intern Editor at Government Information Office, R.O.C. Yearbook compilation (Sections: culture and religion)

1994-1995: Interpreter Lieutenant of the A.H.O.H. (Attack Helicopters and Observation Helicopters) Purchase Project with Michael Douglas Texas Subsidiary

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