Chih-Chien Hsieh
PhD - ABDMA in Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University, 2015
BA in English, National Chengchi University, 2013
cchsieh@brandeis.edu
Research Interests
transnational modernisms, literature of migration and diaspora, postcolonial studies, translation studies, gender and sexuality, critical theory and philosophy
Presentations
“The Syntax of Solidarity: Aimé Césaire, Richard Wright, and the Uses of Parataxis.” ACLA, virtual, April 8-11, 2021
“Embodied Cognition and Affective Intensity: Rethinking the Modernist Inward Turn,” the 39th National Comparative Literature Conference, May 2017. [Chinese]
“An Estranged Intimacy with the World: The Postcolonial Woolf’s Planetary Love in The Voyage Out,” the 24th International Conference on Virginia Woolf, June 2014.
Publications
“The Archipelagic Imaginary in Eric Walrond’s Tropic Death.” Modernism/modernity [forthcoming]
“‘The Part of No Part’ of the Sunflower Movement: The Politics and Aesthetics of Sunflower Occupation and The 561st Hour of Occupation.” Chung Wai Literary Quarterly 47.2 (2018): 181-216 [Chinese]
“Cashmere Shawl as Metaphor and Matterfold: Molar Empire and Molecular Affect in To the Lighthouse.” Orbis Litterarum 72.6 (2017): 508-35
“An Estranged Intimacy with the World: The Postcolonial Woolf’s Planetary Love in The Voyage Out.” Virginia Woolf: Writing the World. Ed. Pamela L. Caughie and Diana L. Swanson. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2015. 116-21.
Awards
Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, Brandeis University, 2022 - runner-up.
Fulbright Grant for Graduate Study, 2017-19
Courses Taught
Race, Colonialism, and Modernism (Spring 2021)
University Writing Seminar: Images of Africa (Fall 2019, Spring 2020)
Favorite Work
"Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf
"The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes