Shuen-shing Lee

Curriculum Vitae

 

Professor
Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures
National Chung Hsing University
Taichung, Taiwan 402
TEL: 011-886-4-22840322 ext. 741
, 777
FAX: 011-886-4-22852903
Email:
sslee[at]dragon.nchu.edu.tw
Website: http://benz.nchu.edu.tw/~sslee

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(1) Education
(2) Positions Held
(3) Courses Taught

(4) Services Provided to Students and the Home Institutions
(5) Publications
(6) Membership
(7) Honors, Awards, and Fellowships

 

(1) Education [top]

Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Washington, 1995
 

(2) Positions Held [top]

Professor Dept. of Foreign languages and Literatures National Chung Hsing University 02.2005-present

Associate
Professor

Dept. of Foreign languages and Literatures

National Chung Hsing University

1997-02.2005

Associate
Professor

Foreign Language Division, College of Law and Business

National Chung Hsing University (Taipei Branch)

1995-1997

 

(3) Courses Taught (1997-2009) [top]

Literature and Hypermedia Arts (graduate level)

Utopian Literature (graduate level)

Digital Design and Literary Pedagogy (undergraduate level)

Hypertext Literature: Practice and Appreciation (undergraduate level)

Digital Literature: Practice and Appreciation (previously titled "Hypertext Literature"; undergraduate level)

Fiction Writing (undergraduate level)

Non-Fiction Writing (undergraduate level)

Freshman English (undergraduate level)

 

(4) Services Provided to Students and the Home Institutions [top]

Director, The Language Center, National Chung Hsing University (08.2004-07.2010)

Advisor, The Student Association of Literature and Art, National Chung Hsing University (1999-2004)

Managing Editor, Intergrams: Studies in Languages and Literatures (The academic e-journal of Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Chung Hsing University; 1999-2002)
 

(5) Publications [top]

 

Books

Lee, Shuen-shing. 1989. Not a Matter of Right or Wrong.  Taipei: Lianjing Publishing. [Chinese]

Lee, Shuen-shing. 1992. The Great Dream of Metal Trash.  Taipei: Lianjing Publishing. [Chinese]

Lee, Shuen-shing, trans. 2009. "Le2 gen tu2 shu guan3." By Stuart Moulthrop.  Trans. of Reagan Library.  Digital Books Sky Co., Ltd. CD Version. ISBN: 978-986-84801-7-9. Online Version: <http://benz.nchu.edu.tw/~garden/SMoulthrop/>. [Chinese]

Articles

Lee, Shuen-shing. 1998. “‘Beauty and Poverty’: The Agricultural Imagination in the Fiction of the 70’s and the Decline of Native Soil Literature.” Essays on Taiwan Modern Fiction.  Ed. Yi-zhi Chen.  Taipei: Lianjing. 273-97. [Chinese]

Lee, Shuen-shing. 1998. “The Problematic Totalization in Fredric Jameson’s Reading of Modern Chinese Literature." Journal of the College of Liberal Arts 28 (1998): 307-325.

Lee, Shuen-shing. 1998. “‘The Garden of Forking Paths’: A Review of Chinese Hypertext Literature.” Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Multimedia Language Education.  Ed. Yuangshan Chuang, et al. TaipeiCrane Publishing.  176-82.

Lee, Shuen-shing. 1999a. “‘Indistinctness’ in J. M. W. Turner's Paintings of Steam Power.” Intergrams 1 (1999). <http://benz.nchu.edu.tw/~intergrams/intergrams/001/001-lee.htm>.

Lee, Shuen-shing. 1999b. “The West in the East: A Survey of Western Elements in Modern Chinese Utopian and Dystopian Literature.” Tamkang Review 30.1 (1999): 65-123. [a revised chapter of my dissertation]

Lee, Shuen-shing. 2000a. “Digital Poetics: An Introduction to Hypertextual Forms.” Intergrams 2.1 (2000). <http://benz.nchu.edu.tw/~intergrams/intergrams/002/002-lee.htm>. [Chinese]

Lee, Shuen-shing. 2000b. “Brave New Word: Digital Adaptation--With Responses to Issues of Hypertext Literature.”  Intergrams 2.2 (2000). <http://benz.nchu.edu.tw/~intergrams/intergrams/022/022-lee.htm>. [Chinese]

Lee, Shuen-shing. 2001a. “The Defining Problems of ‘Network Literature’ in Chinese.”  Special Issue of Taiwan Literature and History Workshop.  Taichung: National Taichung Library. [to be available soon; Chinese; online posting: < http://benz.nchu.edu.tw/~sslee/papers/hyp-def2.htm >]

Lee, Shuen-shing. 2001b.“The ‘Navigable Space’ in Hypertext and the Issue of Nonlinearity.”  Intergrams 3.1 (2001). <http://benz.nchu.edu.tw/~intergrams/intergrams/031/031-lee.htm>. [ Chinese]

Lee, Shuen-shing. 2001c. “A Reconsideration of Hypertextual Tools and Forms--With Examples from Chinese Works.” Intergrams 3.2 (2001). <http://benz.nchu.edu.tw/~intergrams/intergrams/032/032-lee.htm>. [ Chinese] 

Lee, Shuen-shing. 2002a. “‘The Interactive Drama’ of ‘Player + Avatar’: Imagineering the Cyborg Character in Video Games.”  Intergrams: Studies in Languages and Literatures 4.1 (2002)。 <http://benz.nchu.edu.tw/~intergrams/intergrams/041/041-lee.htm>. [Chinese]

Lee, Shuen-shing. 2002b. “Explorations of Ergodic Literature: The Interlaced Poetics of Representation and Simulation.” dichtung-digital: journal für digitale ästhetik 23 (May 2002). < http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/05/26-Lee/index.htm> (ID and password may be required. Username: dd. Password: dds99aE).

Lee, Shuen-shing. 2003a. “Montage Reading and the Database Form in Hypertext.”  Wen San Review.”1.5 (2003): 9-36.

Lee, Shuen-shing. 2003b. Literary Play and Games: The Interlaced Poetics of Representation and Simulation.”  Intergrams: Studies in Languages and Literatures 4.2-5.1 (2003). <http://140.120.152.250/~intergrams/intergrams/042-051/042-051-lee.htm >. [Chinese revision of "Explorations of Ergodic Literature" (2002b)]

Lee, Shuen-shing. 2003c. “‘I Lose, Therefore I Think’: A Search for Contemplation amid Wars of Push-Button Glare.” Game Studies: The International Journal of Computer Game Research 3.2 (December 2003). <http://www.gamestudies.org/0302/lee>.

Lee, Shuen-shing. 2004. "Interactive Points in Digital Literature: A Typology."  Literary Communication and  Reception.  Ed.  Chinese Department, National Dong Hua University.  Taipei: Hongye Publishing.  545-79.

Lee, Shuen-shing. 2005. "How Do I Cool Down the Overheated Medium?: Reading Stuart Moulthrop's Hegirascope 2,'the most typical hypernovel.'" dichtung-digital 2005.2.
<http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2005/2/Lee/index.htm>.

Lee, Shuen-shing. 2006a. "The Core Characteristics of Digital Literature." Taiwanese Literary Communication.  Ed. Xu Zhaohua.  Taichung: Graduate Institute of Taiwanese Literature (NCHU).  283-300. [ISBN-13 / 978-986-00-6120-8      ISBN-10 / 986-00-6120-3]

Lee, Shuen-shing. 2006b. "Intelligent Text: The Uses of Randomness in Digital Literature." Digital Production and Pedagogy in LiteratureEd.  Gaoping Zhang (Chinese Department, National Cheng Kung University).  Taipei: Wunan Publishing.  153-173. [ISBN: 978-957-11-4550-1].

Lee, Shuen-shing. 2009.  "Jak ostudzić przegrzane medium? Czytanie Hegiroskopu Stuarta Multhropa, 'najbardziej typowej hiperpowieści.'"  Tłum. Marcin Mojocha. Techsty: Literatura i Nowe Media 6. <http://techsty.art.pl/magazyn/magazyn6/artykuly/lee01.html>.   (The Polish version of "How Do I Cool Down the Overheated Medium?'"  Trans. Marcin Mojocha.  Published on Techsty.  Chief Editor:Mariusz Pisarski).

Lee, Shuen-shing. 2010. "Interform and Procedurality in Digital Literature." Chung Wai Literary Quarterly 39.1(March): 167-203.

Lee, Shuen-shing. 2010. "Speak, 'Memory': Simulation and Satire in Reagan Library" in Regards Croisés: Perspectives on Digital Literature. Eds. Philippe Bootz and Sandy Baldwin. West Virginia UP, 41-62. [Date of Publication: Dec. 1, 2010] [Available at Amazon]

Lee, Shuen-shing. 2011. "Speak, « Memory »: Simulation et Satire
in Reagan Library." French Trans. Philippe Bootz. univ-paris 8, France. (To be published) [Download: PDF]

Lee, Shuen-shing. 2011. "Old Questions for New Media: What Makes New Media New and What Remains Old in New Media." Chung Wai Literary Quarterly 40.4(December): 7-37.



 

Conference Papers

Lee, Shuen-shing. 1997.  “‘Beauty and Poverty’: The Agricultural Imagination in the Fiction of the 70’s and the Decline of Native Soil Literature.”  Conference on Taiwan Modern Fiction.  Council for Cultural Affairs and The United News. Taipei, Taiwan.

Lee, Shuen-shing. 1998.  “‘The Garden of Forking Paths’: A Review of Chinese Hypertext Literature.” The Second International Conference on Multimedia Language Education. Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Lee, Shuen-shing. 1999.Digital Poetics: An Introduction to Hypertextual Forms.” The 23rd Conference of Comparative Literature Association. Taichung, Taiwan.

Lee, Shuen-shing. 2000. “Brave New Word: Digital Adaptation--With Responses to Issues of Hypertext Literature.” The 24th Conference of Comparative Literature Association. Chungli, Taiwan.

Lee, Shuen-shing. 2001. “A Reconsideration of Hypertextual Tools and Forms—With Examples from Chinese Works.”  Conference of New Age Chinese Literature.  Yuanzhi University, Chungli, Taiwan.

Lee, Shuen-shing. 2001. “Montage Reading and the Database Form in Hypertext.”  The Second Conference of “Wen San Review.”  Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Lee, Shuen-shing. 2001. “‘The Interactive Drama’ of ‘Player + Avatar’: Imagineering the Cyborg Character in Video Games.”  Conference of “Multimedia, Literature, Taiwan.”  National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan. (to be available in October 2001)

Lee, Shuen-shing. 2002. “The Interlaced Poetics of Representation and Simulation: Explorations of Ergodic Literature.”  Sino-Canadian Conference on English Teaching and Knowledge Building. 13 March, 2002. Taichung, Taiwan: Department of Applied Foreign Languages, Chaoyang University of Technology.

Lee, Shuen-shing. 2002. "Literary Play and Games." Conference on Literature and Information.  National Taipei University.  October 30, 2002.

Lee, Shuen-shing. 2003. “‘Serious Computer Games’”: A Search for Contemplation amid Wars of Push-Button Glare.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference (ACLA 2003). April 5, 2003. <http://lynx.csusm.edu/acla2003/panel_details.asp?pid=30>.

Lee, Shuen-shing. 2003. "Interactive Points in Digital Literature."  Conference on Literary Communication and Reception.  National Dong Hua University.  November 7, 2003.

Lee, Shuen-shing. 2005. "Intelligent Text: The Uses of Randomness in Digital Literature."  Conference on Digital Production and Pedagogy in Literature.  National Cheng Kung University.  June 12, 2005.

Lee, Shuen-shing. 2006. "The Core Characteristics of Digital Literature." Conference on Taiwanese Literary Communication.  National Chung Hsing University. May 13, 2006.

Lee, Shuen-shing. 2008. "A Translation and Annotation of 'Reagan Library.'"  Conference of Wild Fire Project Results.  College of Liberal Arts, National Chung Hsing University. December 04, 2008.

Lee, Shuen-shing. 2009. "Procedurality and Materiality in Digital Literature." Technology and the Humanities Workshop.  Humanities and Social Sciences Center, National Chung Hsing University. March 10, 2009.

Lee, Shuen-shing. 2011. The 34th Conference of Comparative Literature Association. Puli, Taiwan. May 21-22, 2011.

Lee, Shuen-shing. 2011. "The Simulative Turn: The Form and Transformation of Digital Literature." The Internet Culture Workshop: Experiential Reflections on the Art and Culture in Digital Age. National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan. October 14, 2011.

 

Hypertext Reviews [Chinese; selected][not updated; v. 10. 01.2001]

12.11.1997.  “Truth or ‘Lies’?”  The Net Reading District.  China Times.

05.14.1998.  “Reconsidering the Hyperfiction Classic (Afternoon).”  The Net Reading District.  China Times.

10.15.1998.  “What Is ‘the ideal text’?”  The Net Reading District.  China Times.

11.19.1998.  “Hypertext as Public Properties?”  The Net Reading District.  China Times.

06.04.1998.  “Surfing Hegirascope 2.  The Net Reading District.  China Times.

03.11.1999.  “Literary 3D World (Holo-X).”  The Net Reading District.  China Times.

03.25.1999.  “Randomness: A New Approach to Fiction Reading (Reagan Library).”  The Net Reading District.  China Times.

04.22.1999.  “The Transition of Literacy.”  The Net Reading District.  China Times.

04.xx.1999.  “The Forms of Hypertext Literature.”  Literary News 162 (April 1999):40-2.

06.03.1999.  “The Net Anxieties.”  The Literary Supplementary of The United News.

06.xx.1999.  “Text, Image, and Narrative (‘Esmeralda’).”  The Net Reading District.  China Times.

07.22.1999.  “Troubles Aroused by the Gender Issue (Brandon).”  The Net Reading District.  China Times.

08.26.1999.  “Cutup Works on the Net.”  The Net Reading District.  China Times.

09.16.1999.  “Shockwaves on the Net (Flash Works).”  The Net Reading District.  China Times.

10.14.1999.  “A Totem Trip (North West Coast Printmakers).”  The Net Reading District.  China Times.

11.18.1999.  An Adventure into Amazon (The Guardians of the Millennium).  The Net Reading District.  China Times.

 

12.09.1999.  “A Dream Walk in the ‘Skyline.’”  The Net Reading District.  China Times.

 

01.13.2000.  “Digital Paradise (The Lair of the Marrow Monkey).”  The Net Reading District.  China Times.

 

04.13.2000.  trAce, ‘Rice,’ and Kids’ Castle.”  The Net Reading District.  China Times.

 

05.11.2000.  “Deconstruction and Frivolity (‘Lux’)”  The Net Reading District.  China Times.

 

06.xx.2000.  “The Interactive Forms in Hypertext Poetry.” Taiwan Poetics Quarterly 31 (June 2000): 66-8.

12.20.2001.  “The Digital Fluidity and Network Features.” E-Generation Literature. The United News (online). <http://udnpaper.com/udnpaper/PIC0001/2682/web/>.

01.03.2001. “Whose Guinea Pigs?—A Response to The Interaction Issue.”  E-Generation Literature. The United News (online). <http://udnpaper.com/udnpaper/PIC0001/3301/web/>.

01.17.2001. “The Virtual Potential of Hypertext.”  E-Generation Literature. The United News (online). <http://udnpaper.com/udnpaper/PIC0001/3817/web/>.

02.07.2001.  “The Artistic Value of Literary Form.”  E-Generation Literature. The United News (online). <http://udnpaper.com/udnpaper/PIC0001/4429/web/>.

02.21.2001.  “The Issue of Nonlinear Narration.”  E-Generation Literature. The United News (online). <http://udnpaper.com/udnpaper/PIC0001/4937/web/>.

03.xx.2001. “Digital Writing: Hypertext and Alternative Narrative Forms.”  Eslite Reader 8 (March 2001): 30-1.

04.15.2001.  “Hyperlink and Its Literary Imagination.”  E-Generation Literature. The United News (online). <http://udnpaper.com/udnpaper/PIC0001/6945/web/>.

05.14.2001.  “The Immersion Issue in Virtual Reality.” E-Generation Literature. The United News (online). <http://udnpaper.com/udnpaper/PIC0001/8164/web/>.

06.11.2001.  “Conceptual Literature.”  E-Generation Literature. The United News (online). <http://udnpaper.com/udnpaper/PIC0001/9361/web/>.

06.24.2001.  “Of Mouse and Man: The Arena of Literary Innovation .”  The Literary Supplement of The United News. [online posting: on Literary Café, <http://www.cca.gov.tw/coffee/author/sslee/result.html>]

07.08.2001.  “The Rhetoric of Hypertextual Forms.”  E-Generation Literature. The United News (online). <http://udnpaper.com/udnpaper/PIC0001/10566/web/>.

08.05.2001.  “The Game and Play Modes in Hypertext Literature.” E-Generation Literature. The United News (online). <http://udnpaper.com/udnpaper/PIC0001/11753/web/>.

09.02.2001.  “In Search for Serious Video Games.”  E-Generation Literature. The United News (online). <http://udnpaper.com/udnpaper/PIC0001/12914/web/>.

 

Reviews of Print-based Texts (Chinese; selected; not updated; v. 10.01.2001)

1996.  “Sex, Politics, and The Native Soil of fin de siécle: A Review of Bone Packing.” Chung Wai Literary Monthly. 24.12 (May 1996):170-3.

1996.  “History, Fantasy, and Metafiction: A Review of The Flying Carpet.” Chung Wai Literary Monthly. 25.4 (September 1996):145-8.

1997.  “The Strategy of ‘Abjection’: A Review of A Gay’s Diary.”  Chung Wai Literary Monthly. 25.10 (March 1997):134-7.

 

1997.  Review of Observation on Aban Calos and The Sea of A Seventeen-Year-Old Girl.  Book Review Edition.  China Times.  08.06.1997.

 

1998.  Review of Yuang Zhao’s Latest Three Books of Literary Criticism.  Book Review Edition.  China Times.  06.11.1998.

 

1998.  Review of Requiem of a Caishan Youth.  Book Review Edition.  China Times. 02.12.1998.

 

2000.  Review of Skull Bar.  Book Review Edition.  China Times.  08.03.2000.

2001.  Review of Double Moon.  Book Review Edition.  China Times.  03.04.2001.

 

Digital Literature Translations

Lee, Shuen-shing, trans. 2001. “Xi ya3 tu2 piao liu2.” By Jim Andrews.  Trans. of “Seattle Drift.” <http://www.cca.gov.tw/coffee/author/sslee/arts/SeattleDrift.htm>.

Lee, Shuen-shing, trans. 2001.“Mi2.”  By Jim Andrews.  Trans of “Enigma n.” <http://www.cca.gov.tw/coffee/author/sslee/arts/enigman2/enigmanintro.htm>

Lee, Shuen-shing, trans. 2001. “Wen2 zi4 wun quan2.”  By Jim Andrews.  Trans. of “Spas Text.” <http://www.cca.gov.tw/coffee/author/sslee/arts/StirFryTexts2/spasintro.htm>.

(The above 3 works were published online at The Literary Café (<http://www.cca.gov.tw/coffee/author/sslee/index.html>), a website co-sponsored by The United News's Literary Supplement and the Taiwan government's Council for Cultural Affairs)

Lee, Shuen-shing, trans. 2009. "Le2 gen tu2 shu guan3." By Stuart Moulthrop.  Trans. of Reagan Library.  Digital Books Sky Co., Ltd. CD Version. ISBN: 978-986-84801-7-9. Online Version: <http://benz.nchu.edu.tw/~garden/SMoulthrop/>.

 

Creative Hypertext (Chinese; selected; re-published online at The Literary Café (<http://www.cca.gov.tw/coffee/author/sslee/index.html>), a website co-sponsored by The United News's Literary Supplementary and the Taiwan government's Council for Cultural Affairs)

Lee, Shuen-shing. (1999) “The Suicide of a Glass.”  <http://www.cca.gov.tw/coffee/author/sslee/arts/glass5/glass5.htm>.

 

Lee, Shuen-shing. (1998-2000) “Wang Wei’s Landscape Painting.”  <http://www.cca.gov.tw/coffee/author/sslee/arts/castle2/castleintro.htm>.

 

Lee, Shuen-shing. (1998-2000) “Ci You’s Descendants.”  <http://www.cca.gov.tw/coffee/author/sslee/arts/castle2/castleintro.htm>.

 

Fiction writing (Chinese; selected)

1998.  125's Maze of HistoryLiterary Taiwan.  26-7 (1998).  Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

 

1998.  “Abjection.”  The Literary Supplementary of People’s News.  08.11.1998. [reprinted in Literary Taiwan (October1998). Kaohsiung, Taiwan]

 

1999.  University of Metal TrashNew Taiwanese Literature Quarterly. 11-12 (1999).  Taichung, Taiwan.

 

Others

Lee, Shuen-shing. (1989) Schizophrenic Personae/Telegraphic Presentation: A Reading of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions.   MA Thesis.  Tamkang University.

Lee, Shuen-shing. (1995) Utopia, Where East and West Meet: A Comparative Study of Hybrid Utopias in Twentieth-Century Chinese and Western Literature.  Diss. University of Washington. Ann Arbor: UMI.

Tung, Chung-hsuan, and Shuen-shing Lee. (1999-2000) “The Influence of Electronic Media upon Creative Writing.” [a project report for National Science Council, Taiwan: NSC 88-2411-H-005-004]

Lee, Shuen-shing. (2000-2001) “Brave New Word: Hypertext, Writing Space, and Reading Perspectives.” [a project report for National Science Council, Taiwan: NSC 89-2411-H-005-015]

Lee, Shuen-shing. 2004. Code at Work, Text at Play: Explorations of Digital Literature. Taipei: Bookman Books. (<http://web.nchu.edu.tw/~sslee/textatplay>; a monograph) .

Lee, Shuen-shing. 10.2007-08.2008. "Translation and Annotation of Stuart Moulthrop's Reagan Library." Wildfire Project, College of Liberal Arts, National Chung Hsing University.

Lee, Shuen-shing. 08.2008-07.2010. "Digital Technology and Its Cultural Effects." Part of the Project of "Nature, Technology and 'the Environmental Issues and Social Norms' in Taiwanese Literature and Film." Center of Humanities And Social Sciences, National Chung Hsing University (Project grants from Ministry of Education).

Lee, Shuen-shing (Co-Director) and Meiwen Li (Director). 05.2011-04.2012. "Internet Culture," sponsored by E-Commerce Center, Distinguished Research Group, Ministry of Education Cutting-edge Research University Program at National Sun Yat-Sen University.

[more; see Chin V; 11.01.2005]

 

(6) Membership [top]

Member. Comparative Literature Association of The Republic of China (Taiwan)

Secretary, 08.2000-07.2001, Comparative Literature Association of The Republic of China (Taiwan)

 

(7) Honors, Awards, and Fellowships [top]

2002-3.  Fulbright Scholar
1998.  Taiwan Literature Award, Jurors’ Prize for Short Stories.

1995.  Research Accomplishment Award, National Science Council, Taiwan

1991-1994.  Tuition Scholarship.  University of Washington.

1991.  The United News Novella Award, First Prize.

1988.  The United News Novel Award, Special Prize.


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