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1 EMILY SUN National Tsing Hua University 101 Kuang Fu Rd., Sec. 2 sunemily@mx.nthu.edu.tw Hsinchu Taiwan (mobile) R.O.C (office) (fax) EDUCATION Ph.D., Yale University, Comparative Literature, 2003 M. Phil., Yale University, Comparative Literature, 1996 B.A., Amherst College, English and German, summa cum laude, 1993 Harvard University, spring 1991; Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg, spring 1992 EMPLOYMENT National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Founding Director, Center for Comparative Literature, Spring College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH Visiting Instructor, Dept. of English, FIELDS OF INTEREST 18 th - and 19 th -century British and European literature, especially Romanticism; literary theory; critical theory and comparative literature; politics and aesthetics; intersections between literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis; East-West comparative aesthetics and literary historiography PUBLICATIONS Book Succeeding King Lear: Literature, Exposure, and the Possibility of Politics. Fordham University Press, Paperback, [Review in Studies in Romanticism 52.1 (2013): ] Edited Book The Claims of Literature: A Shoshana Felman Reader. Ed. and intro. Emily Sun, Eyal Peretz, Ulrich Baer. Fordham University Press, Edited Journal Volume Reading Keats, Thinking Politics. Ed. and intro. Emily Rohrbach and Emily Sun. Studies in Romanticism 50.2 (2011). 1

2 Articles and Book Chapters Dissensus in Two Registers: Tintern Abbey in Taiwan. Teaching Romanticism and Literary Theory. Ed. Brian McGrath. Romantic Pedagogy Commons. Submitted. Your Friends and Lovers: Perfectionism s Recounting of Romanticism. Stanley Cavell and the Event of Romanticism. Ed. Eric Lindstrom. Romantic Circles Praxis Series. July < What is Poetry in the Theater of Biopolitics? Romanticism and Biopolitics. Eds. Alastair Hunt and Matthias Rudolf. Romantic Circles Praxis Series. December < > Introduction: Reading Keats, Thinking Politics, co-authored with Emily Rohrbach. Studies in Romanticism 50.2 (2011): Poetry, Conversation, Community: Annus Mirabilis, The Blackwell Companion to Romantic Poetry. Ed. Charles Mahoney. Blackwell, 2011: Facing Keats with Winnicott: Towards a New Therapeutics of Poetry. Studies in Romanticism 46.1 (2007): Introduction, co-authored with Eyal Peretz and Ulrich Baer. The Claims of Literature: A Shoshana Felman Reader. Fordham University Press, 2007: From the Division of Labor to the Transformation of the Common: James Agee and Walker Evans Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. The Ends of Photography. Ed. Ulrich Baer. Figurationen: Gender Literatur Kultur 2.6 (2006): Translations Yu-yu Cheng, The Origins of Wen in the Chinese Tradition: Proceeding from the Analogy between the Pattern of Heaven and the Pattern of Humans, with Translator s Preface by Emily Sun. Yearbook of Comparative Literature. Vol. 57 (2011): Jacques Rancière, The Politics of the Spider, co-translated with Emily Rohrbach. Studies in Romanticism 50.2 (2011): Reviews Zachary Sng, The Rhetoric of Error from Locke to Kleist. Studies in Romanticism 52.3 (2013): Alexander Huang, Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange. Shakespeare Studies, Vol. 40 (2012): Vladimir Jankovic, Reading the Skies: A Cultural History of English Weather, Journal of Modern History 74.4 (2002): PRESENTATIONS Invited Lectures Emma and the Scene of Happiness. Enlightenment and Romanticism Network, National Cheng-Chi University, Taipei, Taiwan, May Topographies, Archaeologies, Genealogies: Comparative Literature between Past and Future. Comparative Literature Program, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, November Theatricality, Exposure, and Politics: Reading King Lear. Department of Literature, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, October Cordelia s Nothing : An Aesthetic-Political Legacy. Department of English, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, April Wordsworth on the Heath: Poetry and the Revolution of the Spectator. Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, January

3 Notes on a Chinese Jocasta: Tragedy and Chinese Modernity. Symposium on Königinnen: Macht, Körper, Theatralität [ Queens: Power, Body, Theatricality ], Englisches Seminar, University of Zurich, June Wordsworth s Revolution of the Spectator. Department of English, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, March Ang Lee s Cinema of Action. Conference on Double Vision : Taiwan s New Cinema, Department of Film Studies, Yale University, October Conference Papers À venir. Panel on Last Words in Theory. Modern Language Assocation, Vancouver, BC, Canada, January Repetition, Irony, and Comic Hagiography in Flaubert s Un Coeur simple. American Comparative Literature Association, Providence, RI, March Repetition and Origination in Wordsworth and Browning. North American Association for the Study of Romanticism, Park City, UT, August Mill s Wordsworthian Turn. American Comparative Literature Association, Cambridge, MA, March Back to Life: Mill s Romanticism. Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA, December On the Natures of Friendship in Lyrical Ballads. Association for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture, New Brunswick, NJ, October Annus Mirabilis and the Politics of Friendship in Lyrical Ballads. North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Toronto, ON, August Agee s Ear. American Comparative Literature Association, Princeton, NJ, March Wordsworth on the Heath. International Conference on Romanticism, Colorado Springs, CO, October Wordsworth s Vital Anxiousness. North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Boulder, CO, September King Lear: Theater of Exposure. American Comparative Literature Association, Ann Arbor, MI, April Saying I : Keats and the Paradox of the Poet. North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Seattle, WA, August Death and the Experience of Ethics: Facing Keats with Winnicott. Conference on Inventions of Death: Literature, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, June Keats, Winnicott, and the Structure of Maternal Empathy. American Conference on Romanticism, Santa Barbara, CA, October Panel Chair Deviance and Trespass, panel chair, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Boston, MA, August Poetry and the Ethics of Listening: A Panel in Honor of Geoffrey Hartman, panel organizer and chair, Colgate University, October Revolution of the Senses, seminar co-organizer and chair (with Eyal Peretz), American Comparative Literature Association, Princeton, NJ, March States of Exposure, seminar co-organizer and chair (with Eyal Peretz), American Comparative Literature Association, Ann Arbor, MI, April Respondent Keats Love, seminar paper by Ann Wierda Rowland. North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Boston, MA, August

4 Love and Ethics in Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloise, paper by Jien Qien-Ru. Rousseau Tricentennial Symposium. Center for Political Thought, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, June Workshop Convenor Modernities and the Rhetoric of Futurity, workshop, Center for Comparative Literature, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. Philology Now, Spring 2014 workshop, Center for Comparative Literature, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, spring semester HONORS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS New York University Visiting Scholar, Department of German, Colgate University Research Council Major Grant, Yale University Paul C. Gignilliat Dissertation Fellowship, Max Kade Fellowship, 1994 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, 1993 Amherst College Woods-Travis Prize for highest GPA in graduating class, 1993 Elizabeth Bruss Prize in English, 1993 German Consulate General Prize for Academic Achievement, 1993 Phi Beta Kappa 1992 Harvard University Visiting University Scholar, spring 1991 TEACHING National Tsing Hua University Undergraduate Introduction to Western Literature II Reading and Writing II Shakespeare Romantic Literature Victorian Literature Topics in Comparative Aesthetics: The Beautiful, the Sublime, the Cute, and the Bland Graduate Browning and Dickens: Politics, Comedy, Melodrama Topics in Comparative Aesthetics: On Sympathy and the Feelings Literature and Psychoanalysis Co-director of M.A. theses Alex Chang, The Uncanny Connection between the Gothic and Science Fiction ; Joanne Hsu, Alice s Wonderland: A Feminist Deterritorialization ; Karen Wu, Monetary Practice and Community-Making in Shakespeare s The Merchant of Venice ; Kelly Liao, Gender, Marriage, and Economics: Chaucer s Wife of Bath. Committee Member for M.A. theses (at National Taiwan University) Ya-Wei Pan, Coleridge and his Ancient Mariner: Autobiographical Writings and Persona Construction ; Crystal Lin, The Politics and Aesthetics of Ruins in William Wordsworth and John Ruskin 4

5 College of the Holy Cross Critical Reading and Writing (Fiction) Readings in Nineteenth-Century British Literature Victorian Poetry and Prose The Modern British Novel New York University Readings in Lyric Poetry (co-taught with Ulrich Baer, graduate seminar in English, German, and Comparative Literature) Cultural Foundations III (Liberal Studies Program) Colgate University Core Curriculum Western Traditions The Challenge of Modernity English Department Survey of British Literature II Romantic Poetry and Prose Victorian Poetry and Prose Literary Theory Byron, Shelley, Keats Politics and Aesthetics Poetry and Mourning Primary director of four senior honors theses; secondary director of three senior honors theses. Topics include: Sir Walter Scott as national poet, the epistolary mode in Fanny Burney and Jane Austen, autobiography in Dickens and Freud, Christina Rossetti s poetics of secrecy, Christina Rossetti s poetry of devotion, the philosophy of language in Wittgenstein and Orwell, the poetry and politics of Adrienne Rich. Kenyon College Introduction to Language and Literature British Romantic Literature Romanticism and Revolution Childhood in Literature and Film Yale University (as teaching assistant and part-time acting instructor) English Department English Romantic Poetry, The Victorian Novel, Modern British Fiction, Introduction to the Study of Literature Comparative Literature Department Fiction and the Forms of Narrative, Senior Essay Coordinator Film Studies Department Introduction to Film Studies, Issues in Contemporary Film Theory SERVICE AND RELATED ACTIVITIES National Tsing Hua University Center for Comparative Literature, Founding Director, spring

6 Center for Comparative Literature, Founding Committee, spring 2013 Student Affairs Committee, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literature, 2014 Curriculum Committee, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literature, Student Recruitment and Examination Committee, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literature, Appointments Committee, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literature, Building and Grounds Committee, Humanities and Social Sciences Division, Colgate University Colgate-Hamilton Theory Reading Group, Colgate University coordinator, Student Affairs Board, Committee on Athletics, Fulbright Fellowship Committee, Committee on Student Rights and Responsibilities, Bookstore Advisory Committee, MacArthur Minority Dissertation Fellowship Committee, Spring 2004 Professional Activities Reader, Fordham University Press, Editorial board, Yearbook of Comparative Literature, Editorial board, Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, Reviewer, Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, Reviewer, Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, Reviewer, Tamkang Studies in Foreign Languages and Literatures, Reviewer, EurAmerica: A Journal of European and American Studies, Reader, China Times Publishing Company, Taipei, Taiwan, External honors examiner, English Department, Kenyon College, Spring 2008 Translator from French and German, Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University, PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Comparative Literature Association, International Conference on Romanticism, Keats-Shelley Association of America, Modern Language Association, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism LANGUAGES English: native fluency Mandarin Chinese: native fluency German: excellent reading, proficient conversational and writing ability French: excellent reading, proficient conversational and writing ability Italian, Greek, Latin: reading knowledge REFERENCES Available upon request. 6