Sylvia Li-chun Lin

Associate Professor
Department of East Asian Languages and Culture
Executive Fellow, College of Arts and Letters

Degrees

B.A., M.A., Tamkang University; M.A., St. John's University; M.A., University of Oregon; Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley

Research Profile

Lin's areas of research are modern and contemporary Chinese literature and culture, Chinese literature from Taiwan, representation of atrocity, late Imperial culture, film, literary journals, narrative theories, language and nationalism, women's studies. Her recent publication includes Representing Atrocity in Taiwan: The 2/28 Incident and White Terror in Fiction (Columbia UP, 2007). Lin is currently working a second book manuscript on atrocity and documentary films. Lin was awarded the Translation of the Year Prize, the Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, and research grants from the University of Notre Dame and the CCK Foundation.

Contact Information

264 Decio Faculty Hall
631-0942
slin@nd.edu