Shang-yu Sheng - Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, NSYSU

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Shang-yu Sheng

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(07)5252000 ext.3142

ssheng@mail.nsysu.edu.tw

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Full-Time

Job Title

Assistant Professor

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The long 18th century, life writing, narrative, public sphere studies, intellectual history, graphic memoirs, writing pedagogy, communication and rhetoric

School Name	Country	Department	Degree	起迄年月
The City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center		English	Ph.D.	~
The City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center		English	M.Phil.	~
National Taiwan University		Foreign Languages and Literatures	M.A.	~
National Taiwan University		Finance	B.B.A.	~

Organization Name	Unit	職務	Period
National Sun Yat-sen University		Assistant Professor	2021-08 ~
The University of Tokyo		Assistant Professor	2017-09 ~ 2021-08
Columbia University		Writing Consultant	2016-12 ~ 2017-06
Queens College, The City University of New York		Graduate Fellow and Instructor	2014-09 ~ 2017-06

Year	Paper Title
2020	,Review of Writing to the World: Letters and the Origins of Modern Print Culture, by Rachel Scarborough King (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018),Eighteenth-Century Fiction ,33, pp126~29,(AHCI)
2018	,Review of Speech, Print, and Decorum in Britain, 1600-1750: Studies in Social Rank and Communication, by Elspeth Jajdelska (Routledge, 2016),Renaissance Quarterly ,70, pp329~31,(AHCI)
2014	,“Teaching with Rubrics: Genre Knowledge in the Classroom” ,Writing Intense: A Journal for Faculty at the Borough of Manhattan Community College,5, pp6~9,(Other)
2013	,Review of Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain, by Karen O’Brien (Cambridge UP, 2009) ,The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography (ECCB) ,34, pp186~87,(Other)

Year	Paper Title
2020	,“Bodies Living and Dead: Trauma, Bildungsroman, and Autobiographical Comics”,Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention,2020-03-05-2020-03-08
2019	,“Epistolary Rhetoric and the Cosmopolitan Subject in Helen Maria Williams’s Letters from France”,Northeast Modern Language Association 50th Anniversary Convention,2019-03-21-2019-03-24
2018	,“Google Translate and Multilingual Composition”,Council of Writing Program Administrators Annual Conference,2018-07-26-2018-07-29
2017	,“The Narrative Function of Letters: Epistolary Form, Social Networks, and Genre in Humphry Clinker and Evelina” ,International Conference on Narrative,2017-03-23-2017-03-26
2016	,“The ‘Lives’ of Johnson: Narrative Strategy and the Biographical Subject in Eighteenth-Century Life Writing",The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Annual Conference,2016-03-31-2016-04-03
2015	,“Rhetorical Networks in the Eighteenth-Century Published Letter” ,The East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (EC/ASECS) Annual Conference,2015-11-12-2015-11-14
2015	,“Responding to Mr. Spectator: Communication Structures in The Spectator’s Hypertexts” ,The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Annual Conference,2015-03-19-2015-03-22
2014	,“Organizing Readers: The Open Letters of Edmund Burke and Helen Maria Williams”,The North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) Annual Conference,2014-07-10-2014-07-14
2014	,“Forms of Sociality and Communicative Structures: Published Letters in Eighteenth-Century England” ,Columbia University Seminar in Eighteenth-Century European Culture,2014-04-04-2014-04-05
2013	,“Women and War: Dramatic Epistolarity in Margaret Cavendish’s Sociable Letters” ,The Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (NEASECS) Annual Conference,2013-10-03-2013-10-06
2013	,“Reconfiguring the Public: Letter Exchanges in The Spectator” ,The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Annual Conference,2013-04-03-2013-04-06
2012	,“Aesthetics as Political Vision: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters from Sweden, Norway, and Denmark” ,18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference (BWWC),2012-06-07-2012-06-10
2011	,“Kantian Aesthetics and the Problem of Sociability” ,The British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) Biannual Conference,2011-07-28-2011-07-31

Year	Project Name	Participant	計畫期間	Cooperation
2019	A Transatlantic Study of the Public Letter in the First Media Revolution	Shang-yu Sheng	2019-04~2021-08	The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Year	Title	Topic	Activity Unit	Activity Period
2020	Invited talk	“Lessons from the Lockdown: Cultivating Student Community in an Online L2 Academic Writing Classroom		2020-06-02~2020-06-02
2018	Professional development	Council of Writing Program Administrators Workshop		2018-07-00~2018-07-00
2016	Professional development	Scholar in Residence at the Wertheim Study, New York Public Library		2016-09-00~2017-08-00
2014	Invited talk	"Varieties of the Enlightenment Experience" (Friday Forum, English Program, CUNY Graduate		2014-05-02~2014-05-02
2013	Professional development	Folger Institute Seminar on "Researching the Archive," Folger Shakespeare Library		2013-09-00~2014-08-00
2013	Professional development	Writing-Across-the-Curriculum, The City University of New York		2013-09-00~2014-08-00

Year	Category	Award Name	Award Unit
2022	Internal Honor	外文系傑出教學教師	國立中山大學外文系
2021	Internal Honor	新進教師獎勵	國立中山大學
2021	Internal Honor	學術重點研究支援	國立中山大學
2019	External Honor	Conference and Research Support	The University of Tokyo
2018	External Honor	The English Program Prize for Best Dissertation in	CUNY Graduate Center
2018	External Honor	Global Faculty Development Funds	The University of Tokyo
2018	External Honor	Female Faculty Startup Funds	The University of Tokyo
2015	External Honor	Dissertation Year Fellowship	CUNY Graduate Center
2015	External Honor	Doctoral Student Research Grant	CUNY Graduate Center
2015	External Honor	Conference Travel Support	American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
2014	External Honor	Grant-in-Aid, Folger Institute	Folger Shakespeare Library
2014	External Honor	Robert Adams Day Dissertation Year Fellowship	English Program, CUNY Graduate Center
2011	External Honor	Postgraduate Travel Bursary	British Association for Romantic Studies
2011	External Honor	Conference Presentation Awards	CUNY Graduate Center
2009	External Honor	Enhanced Chancellor's Fellowship	CUNY Graduate Center
2009	External Honor	Study Abroad Fellowship	Ministry of Education, Taiwan

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