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Lai, Shu-fang
(07)5252000 ext.3135
sflai@mail.nsysu.edu.tw
Lai, Shu-fang

Teacher

Full-Time
Professor
19th-Century English Literature
Victorian Poetry
Victorian Literature, Culture and Society
Literary Translation
Translating Taiwan Literature into English
Charles Dickens
Children's Literature
Victorian Literature, 19th-Century English Novels and Prose, Literature and Science, Periodicals, Translation Studies
School NameCountryDepartmentDegree起迄年月
University of GlasgowUnited KingdomDepartment of English LiteraturePhD. in English Literature ~ 1999-12
University of EdinburghUnited KingdomDepartment of English LiteratureMLitt ~ 1996-04
National Chengchi UniversityTaiwanBusiness AdministrationBA ~ 1989-06
Organization NameUnit職務Period
2023-08 ~ 2025-09
Association for Scottish Literary Studies（IASLS）University of GlasgowCommittee Member2020-06 ~ 2023-12
Kaohsiung Medical University Department of Medical Humanities and EducationJoint Appointment Professor2016-08 ~ -
the National LibraryCommittee of the Project for Development and UnionCommittee Member2015 ~ 2016-12
2013 ~ 2013
2010 ~ 2010
Martineau Society Committe Officer2010 ~
2005 ~ 2005
2002-03 ~ 2002-03
YearPaper Title
2023,Harriet Martineau's Early Tales for the Young,Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature,
2021,Voyages to the Central Flowery Land: An Exploration of Robert Fortune and the Genre of His Travelogues,CHUNG WAI LITERARY,50, pp133~170
2020,“A Family History”: Harriet Martineau’s Victorian Fantasy of the South Sea Bubble,Nineteenth-Century Prose,47, pp141~164,(AHCI)
2019,"I was named Doctor": Fancy about Medicine in Dickens's Dr. Marigold's Prescriptions ,Studies in the Literary Imagination,52, pp39~56,(AHCI)
2019Shu-Fang Lai and Peih-Ying Lu,Reflections on Literature and Medicine: Their Interactions and Influence,Studies in Literary Imagination,52, ppv~xi,(AHCI)
2018with Peih-ying Lu (1st author),Western Medical Education in Formosa the 19th Century: David Manson Memorial Hospital and its Medical Education Scheme,Taiwanese Journal for Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine, pp55~114,(TSSCI)
2017,Robert Browning, Algernon Charles Swinburne and Evolution,Wenshan Review,11, pp115~146
2014,Harriet Martineau's Sickroom Narrative,Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature, pp101~22,(AHCI)
2013,The Man, the Butterfly, and the Heaven above: A Comparative Look at Robert Browning and Chinese Philosophy,Literature Compass ,10, pp201~216
2012,Dickens and Emotions,Victorians. A Journal of Culture and Literature, pp83~92,(AHCI)
2012,‘Like a downcast angel’: Harriet Martineau’s ‘Historiette’of Mary, Queen of Scots,Scottish Literary Review,4, pp93~110,(AHCI)
2011,Preface: The Nineteenth Century,Sun Yat-sen Journal of Humanities,30, ppi~2,(Other)
2010,The Mysteries of Origin and the Need for a Happy Ending: George Meredith’s Evan Harrington: He Could be a Gentleman,Victorian Newsletter,117, pp58~74,(AHCI)
2009,大眾前的「私我」: 論維多利亞時期生命書寫,外國語文研究, pp39~63
2007, Harriet Martineau’s ‘Historiattes’: Part Two of Two,Martineau Society Newsletter,22, pp6~11,(Other)
2007,Introduction to Database "Literature Online",Humanities and Social Sciences Newsletter,9, pp39~63,(Other)
2006,Dickens’s Representation of Childhood Trauma,Foreign Literature Studies,28, pp38~46,(AHCI)
2006,Harriet Martineau’s 'Historiattes': Part One of Two.,Martineau Society Newsletter,21, pp22~26,(Other)
2004,Trotty and Etty: Unlikely Partners in Punch,Dickensian, pp139~143,(AHCI)
2003with W.-P. Lee,From ‘Wings of Wire’ to ‘Weaving the Web’: Passing the Revolution of Message Transmission in the Past and the Present,Wen Shan Review , pp73~81
2001,Fact or Fancy?: What Can We Learn about Dickens from the Scientific Articles in His Journals, Household Words and All the Year Round,Victorian Periodicals Review , pp41~53,(AHCI)
1998,Filming Julian Jarrold’s Great Expectations,Dickens Quarterly, pp226~228,(AHCI)
1997with K. J. Fielding,Dickens, Science, and ‘The Poetry of Science’,Dickensian, pp5~10,(AHCI)
1997with K. J. Fielding,On Dickens the Evolutionist,Dickensian,(AHCI)
YearPaper Title
2023Lai, Shu-Fang,Florence Nightingale’s Calling and the Nature of Nursing Care ,13th Quadrennial Comparative Literature Conference: Comparative Literature in an Era of Pandemics:Medicine, Health, and the Environment,2023-12-15-2023-12-16
2023,Victorian literature in Koà-Chhài Chí, the first Christian periodical in Taiwan,11th International conference European Society for Periodical Research （ESPRit） Periodicals and Belonging 27-29 June 2023,2023-06-27-2023-06-29
2023,“Over the Religious and Cultural Currents": The First Taiwanese Translation and Adaptation of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol,RSVP Annual Conference: Current in the Periodical Press,2023-07-06-2023-07-09
2023,2023-10-20-2023-10-20
2023Lai, Shu-Fang,Literary Palpation: on Doctor’s Reading and Listening and Writing,2023-11-25-2023-11-25
2022,Dedication to One and Affections for More: Some Reflections on Mathematics in Victorian Novels ,MOST Conference on Research Project Results: English Literature,2022-05-06-2022-05-06
2022,Visualizing Nature and Natural History,2022-10-14-2022-10-14
2022,"From Nature`s Voices to God`s Voices: Hopkins`s Sound Engineering",International Hopkins Conference,2022-09-23-2022-09-24
2022,Foreigners and Foreign Literature in Dickens’s Household Words and All the Year Round,RSVP 2022 Conference on "Margin/Limit/Periphery/Edge",2022-09-15-2023-09-17
2021,Dickens and Mathematics: Numbering, Calculating, and Reasoning,The 26th Annual Dickens Society Symposium 2021 ,2021-07-13-2021-07-13
2021,The Aesthetics of Mathematics in Victorian Fiction: Some Case Studies,2021-10-23-2021-10-23
2021,Lines, Circles and Angles into Ideas: William Makepeace Thackeray’s Visual and Textual Imaginations,History of Art and Science: An Interdisciplinary Workshop,2021-12-17-2021-12-17
2020,The Christian Translator Tân Chheng-tiong and his Translations of the Victorian Literature in Koà-Chhài Chí,British Protestant Missionaries to Formosa,2020-09-24-2020-09-24
2019,Numbering, Calculating, and Reasoning: Victorian Renewals in Mathematics and Realistic Writings by Dickens,The British Association for Victorian Studies Annual Conference: Victorian Renewals,2019-08-28-2019-08-30
2019,Dickensian Matters: Gold, Silver and Iron , The 11th Victorian Popular Fiction Association Annual Conference: Mind, Matter（s）, Spirit: Forms of Knowledge in Victorian Popular Fiction and Culture,2019-07-08-2019-07-10
2019,Victorian Medicine and Literary Imagination: From Charles Dickens’s Dr. Marigold’s Prescriptions to R. L. Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ,The 41 Comparative Literature Association Conference: Medical Humanities in the New Millennium,2019-06-22-2019-06-22
2019,Boredom onto Wonder and Joy in Victorian Fictional Narratives: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford and Margaret Oliphant’s The Quiet Heart,27th ​Annual Conference of the English and American Literature Association: Restlessness ,2019-11-02-2020-11-02
2018,“Dickens and Gold.”,14th ESSE conference, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic,2018-08-29
2018,Peter Pan Coming to Taiwan,TCLRA 8th Annual Conference: Childrens and Young Adult Literature in Translation,2018-11-24-2018-11-24
2017,Dickens and Maga: A Love-Hate Relationship?,The Blackwoods Bicentenary,2017-07-24-2017-07-25
2016,The Forgotten Writings of Hans Christian Andresen,Forgotten Books & Cultural Memory Conference,2016-05-27-2016-05-28
2016,Chinese Translation of Dickens’s David Copperfield,Dickens Society 21st Annual Symposium: Adapting Dickens,2016-07-12-2016-07-15
2015,“Great ifs, and many of them”: Harriet Martineau’s Early Tales for Children,From Brontë to Bloomsbury Second International Conference: ,2015-07-06-2015-07-07
2015,Harriet Martineau’s Writings for the Youth,Martineau Society Annual Conference ,2015-07-23-2015-07-26
2015,Formosa in British Fancy before the Japanese invasion in 1895 ,乙未臺灣：漢、和、歐、亞文化的交錯 學術研討會 ,2015-09-12-2015-09-12
2014,Home vs Nature in Stevenson’s The Bottle Imp ,First World Congress of Scottish Literatures,2014-07-02-2014-07-05
2014,The Little Girl and her Doll: Imagination of the World in Taiwan Youth’s Literature,Envisioning “Things”: An International Conference on Material Culture,2014-10-17-2014-10-18
2013,Robert Browning and Harriet Martineau,Martineau Society Annual Conference, Oxford ,2013-07-25-2013-07-25
2013,Translating Love: On Chinese Translation of Love Poems by Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning,East and West Conference on Translation Studies: Translation History Matters, NSYSU,2013-09-26-2013-11-27
2013,Home away from Home: Victorian Journalistic Imagination about Emigration to Australia,Migrations and Their Memories ,2013-10-04-2013-10-04
2013,On Natural Landscapes in Modern Novels of Taiwan,Inter-flow and Trans-border: Ocean, Environment, and Cultural Landscape of Taiwan,2013-12-06-2013-12-07
2013,An Analysis of English Translations of Taiwan Nativist Novels: Harward Goldblatt’s Strategies and after ,The Symposium on Taiwan Literature Translation,2013-11-22-2013-11-23
2012,維多利亞中晚期天地人想像：以布朗寧之「物我相忘」與史溫本的「宇宙情感」為例,2013-03-23-2013-03-23
2012,Browning and Evolution.,Robert Browning and Victorian Poetry at 200,2012-11-02-2012-11-02
2011,Sex and Marriage in Household Words and All the Year Round,Victorian Popular Fiction Association 3rd Annual Conference,2011-07-18-2011-07-18
2011,Reading Life in the Sickroom,17th Martineau Society Annual Conference,2011-07-09-2011-07-09
2011,Small but Useful Voices: Short Stories in the Victorian Marketplace,Singer not the Song: Narration in the Short Story,2011-06-24-2011-06-24
2010,Harriet Martineau's A Family History: A Victorian Fantasy about the South Sea Bubble,16th Martineau Society Conference,2010-07-18-2010-07-18
2010,Chinese Translations and Interpretations of Kidnapped,6th Biennial Conference on Robert Louis Stevenson: Locating Stevenson,2010-07-10-2010-07-10
2009,'Look into Your Own Heart and Write!': Charles Reade's A Good Fight,Conference on Victorian Popular Novelists 1860-1900,2009-09-11-2009-09-11
2009,Dickens, Feelings and Senses,Australasian Victorian Studies Association Conference on Victorian Sensorium,2009-02-04-2009-02-04
2008,'The laughing, crying child inside': Dickens and Emotions,The British Association for Victorian Studies 9th Annual Conference on ,2008-09-02-2008-09-02
2007,維多利亞生命書寫,中研院「生命書寫」研討會,2007-10-26-2007-10-26
2007,Demerara: Heart and Head,Martineau Society Conference,2007-07-21-2007-07-21
2006,Harriet Martineau’s Writing on Mary, Queen of Scots,Martineau Society Conference,2006-07-14-2006-07-14
2005,Harriet Martineau's Historiattes,The Martineau Society Conference,2005-07-14-2005-07-17
2004,'The Lady with a Trumpet': Harriet Martineau, Her Sufferings and Writings,台北醫學大學第一屆醫學人文研討會,2004-10-03-2004-10-03
2004,Dickens's Rival, Once a Week,Dickens Society Conference,2004-09-03-2004-09-03
2004,To Tell the'Secret Agony of Soul': Dickens's Representation of Childhood Trauma,第十一屆全國英美文學會議,2004-03-02-2004-03-02
2003,Harriet Martineau and Once (or more) a Week,Martineau Society Conference,2003-08-09-2013-08-09
2002,天外猶有天?－論狄更斯的宇宙觀與他所接觸的天文學探索,第二十六屆全國比較文學會議,2002-05-17-2002-05-17
2002,All the Year Round versus Once a Week: a Case Study of the Two Victorian Literary Magazines ,Conference on “Place of Exchange: Magazines, Journals and Newspapers in British and Irish Culture, 1688-1945,2002-07-27-2002-07-27
2001with Wei-Po Lee,From 'Wings of Wire'to'Weaving the Web':Passing the Revolution of Message Transmission in the Past and the Present,The Second Wen Shan Review Conference,2001-05-05-2001-05-05
2001,達爾文之前及之後的狄更斯研究,On Literary Methodology Conference,2001-04-28-2001-04-28
2000,Two Cultures in One: On the Teaching of General Science in English Courses ,The Ninth International Symposium on English Teaching/ 2000: Changes and Challenges in ELT,2000-11-10-2000-11-10
1999,Fact and Fancy?:What Can We Learn about Dickens from His Periodicals,VPR Conference on“Periodicals in Victorian Britain,1999-03-29-1999-03-29
YearProject NameParticipant計畫期間Cooperation
20262026-08~2027-07
20252025-08~2026-07
2024Spiritual Pursuits in Victorian Literature: Poetry and FaithLai, Shu-fang2024-08~2025-07
2023Spiritual Pursuits in Victorian Literature: Poetry and FaithLai, Shu-fang2023-08~2024-07
2022Lai, Shu-fang2022-08~2023-07
2021Fact and Fancy: Math and Logic in Victorian NovelsLai, Shu-fang2021-08~2022-09Most
2020Fact and Fancy: Math and Logic in Victorian NovelsLai, Shu-fang2020-08~2021-07Most
2019Fact and Fancy: Math and Logic in Victorian NovelsLai, Shu-fang2019-08~2020-07MOST
2018Studies of Victorian Cross-Age Fairy TalesLai, Shu-fang2018-08~2019-07MOST
2017Studies of Victorian Cross-Age Fairy TalesLai, Shu-fang2017-08~2018-07MOST
2016Studies of Victorian Cross-Age Fairy TalesLai, Shu-fang2016-08~2017-07MOST
2014Human, Robot, and Cyborg: Translation of N. Katherine Hayles’s Book, How We Became PosthumanLai, Shu-fang2015-08~2016-07National Science Council, Taiwan
2015Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Culture Study GroupLai, Shu-fang2015-07~2017-06
2015Medicine and People: Exploring First-hand Manuscripts and Archival Resources about the Medical HumaLai, Shu-fang2015-01~2015-12Kaohsiung Medical School
2014Human, Robot, and Cyborg: Translation of N. Katherine Hayles’s Book, How We Became Posthuman (2/2)Lai, Shu-fang2014-08~2015-07National Science Council, Taiwan
2014From Scotland-Southern Taiwan Association to a Global Perspective: on 19th Century Medical History aLai, Shu-fang2014-01~2014-12Kaohsiung Medical School
2013Torrents of the Petty Multitudes:Studies of Short Novels and Verses in the Victorian Periodicals (1/Lai, Shu-fang2013-08~2016-07National Science Council, Taiwan
2014Torrents of the Petty Multitudes:Studies of Short Novels and Verses in the Victorian Periodicals (2/Lai, Shu-fang2013-08~2016-07National Science Council, Taiwan
2015Torrents of the Petty Multitudes:Studies of Short Novels and Verses in the Victorian Periodicals (3/Lai, Shu-fang2013-08~2016-07National Science Council, Taiwan
2010 (National Science Council Research Project)： Poetic Imagination of Heaven, Human and Earth in Mid-2010-08~2013-07National Science Council, Taiwan
2011Poetic Imagination of Heaven, Human and Earth in Mid- and Late- Victorian Periods (2/3)Lai, Shu-fang2010-08~2013-07National Science Council, Taiwan
2012Poetic Imagination of Heaven, Human and Earth in Mid- and Late- Victorian Periods (3/3)Lai, Shu-fang2010-08~2013-07National Science Council, Taiwan
2009NSC Book Project：19th-Century English Literature2009-06~2012-05National Science Council, Taiwan
2008From Reading to Writing: Knowledge-based Research into Dickens and 19th-Century Scottish IntellectuaLai, Shu-fang2008-07~2008-09NSC
2007National Science Council Research Project: Emotions in Dickens's Novels (1/3)2007-08~2010-07National Science Council, Taiwan
2008National Science Council Research Project: Emotions in Dickens's Novels (2/3)Lai, Shu-fang2007-08~2010-07National Science Council, Taiwan
2009National Science Council Research Project: Emotions in Dickens's Novels (3/3)Lai, Shu-fang2007-08~2010-07National Science Council, Taiwan
2005Dickens's Library: His Reading and Novel Writing2005-08~2006-07National Science Council, Taiwan
2004From Theatre to Fiction, from the Realistic to the Sensational: Charles Reade's Serials in All the 2004-08~2005-07National Science Council, Taiwan
2003George Meredith: The Victorian Serial Novelist under the Shadow2003-08~2004-07National Science Council, Taiwan
2002 Martineau vs. Dickens: A Case Study of Victorian Periodical Authorship and Editorship2002-07~2003-08National Science Council, Taiwan
2001Voyages to the Flowery Land: Robert Fortune's Plant Hunting in China2001-08~2002-07National Science Council, Taiwan
2000Crossing the Boundary of the Two Cultures: Rediscovering Dickens and Science2000-08~2001-07National Science Council, Taiwan
YearWriting
2023Medicine and Literature: Doctors in English Literature
2020Western Medical Education in Formosa in the 19th Century: David Manson Memorial Hospital and its Med,Modern Medicine in Taiwan,國立臺灣大學出版中心
2019Nature versus Nurture: Robert Chambers as a Writer for Children,The Land of Story-Books: Scottish Children’s Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century,Association for Scottish Literary Studies
2019Shu-fang Lai,Did She Say or Did He Say? On the Multiple Voices of Yeats' Crazy Jane Poems,書林
2018Introduction to Translation of N. Katherine Hayles's How We Became Posthuman ,How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics,時報文化
2010The Wind Blows to the East: On Chinese Translations of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows,Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows: A Classic Series at 100,Scarecrow
2010Emotions in R. H. Mottram’s The Spanish Farm Trilogy,Emotion in Literature, Seoul UP
2010Death in Dickens’s Dombey and Son,An Interpretive Turn: Essays on Cultural Expressions of Art and Literature,Bookman
2008一顆星懸在科學館的飛簷: 余光中與科學,詩歌天保,書林
2008Bleak House and Victorian Science,Approaches to Teaching Charles Dickens’s Bleak House,MLA
2007第六章〈維多利亞時期〉,書林
2002達爾文之前及之後的狄更斯研究,方法：文學的路,國立台灣大學出版中心
1999Dickens’s Science, Evolution and ‘The Death of the Sun’,Dickens, Europe and the New Worlds,Macmillan
YearTitleTopicActivity UnitActivity Period
202110 Minutes with IASSL Members賴淑芳教授10分鐘訪談Ten Minutes with Professor Shu-Fang LaiInternational Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures2021-09-07~2021-09-07
20192019-10-04~2019-10-04
20182018-11-09~2018-11-09
20142014-06-27~2014-06-28
20132013-00-00~2013-00-00
20102010-00-00~2010-00-00
2008Invited Talk“Introduction to Dickens” National Kaohsiung University, Taiwan2008-04-07~2008-04-07
20052005-00-00~2005-00-00
20022002-00-00~2002-00-00
YearCategoryAward NameAward Unit
2023Internal HonorPilot Teacher NSYSU
2021Internal HonorAcademic Research AwardNSYSU
2020External HonorVisiting FellowshipIASH, University of Edinburgh
2019External HonorVisiting FellowshipIASH, University of Edinburgh
2018External HonorNominated FellowshipIASH, University of Edinburgh
2018Internal HonorAcademic Research AwardNSYSU
2017External HonorIASH Visiting Research Fellowship 愛丁堡大學人文研究中心University of Edinburgh, UK
2016Internal HonorAcademic Research AwardNSYSU
2015Internal HonorAcademic Research AwardNSYSU
2014Internal HonorAcademic Research AwardNSYSU
2013Internal HonorResearch Paper AwardNSYSU
2013Internal HonorAcademic Research AwardNSYSU
2012Internal HonorResearch Paper AwardNSYSU
2011External HonorThe First NTU Award for Literary Translation
2010Internal HonorTeaching and Research AwardNSYSU
2010Internal HonorResearch Paper AwardNSYSU
2009Internal HonorTeaching and Research AwardNSYSU
2006Internal HonorResearch Paper AwardNSYSU
2000External HonorNSC Research Award
1997External HonorThe 10th Liang Shih-Chiu Literary Award for Transl
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