Pin-Chia Feng

Pin–Chia Feng is Distinguished Professor of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan and Research Fellow of the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica (joint appointment). She is also on her second term as President of the Association of English and American Literature. Feng was NCTU’s Provost of Academic Affairs, Chair of NCTU’s Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, President of the Comparative Literature Association of ROC (2005-2008), President of the Association of English and American Literature (2009-2011), and a recipient of the 2007, 2010, and 2013 Outstanding Research Award of Taiwan’s National Science Council. Her monograph, Diasporic Representations: Reading Chinese American Women’s Fiction, was awarded Academia Sinica’s Scholarly Monograph Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences (2012). Feng received her PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1994). She writes on issues of gender, race, and representation in films as well as in Asian American, African American and Afro-Caribbean literatures. Pin-Chia Feng was nominated by the Department of English.