Chia-rong Wu
Biography
Chia-rong Wu holds the position of Associate Professor (Reader) in the School of Languages, Social and Political Sciences at the University of Canterbury. Dr. Wu earned his PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. His expertise lies in Sinophone literature, film, and video games through the lens of postcolonial theories, Indigenous studies, diaspora, and ecocriticism. Dr. Wu is the author of two monographs: Supernatural Sinophone Taiwan and Beyond (Cambria Press, 2016) and Remapping the Contested Sinosphere: The Cross-cultural Landscape and Ethnoscape of Taiwan (Cambria Press, 2020). Also, he co-edited Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century: A Critical Reader (Springer, 2023) and The Southern Discourse in Sinophone Literature: Moving Borders (Routledge, 2025). Moreover, his professional service includes but is not limited to his roles as the executive editor and Advisory Board member of Taiwan Lit and the Global Sinosphere (ISSN: 2994-6816), the Advisory Board member of the International Journal of Taiwan Studies (ISSN: 2468-8800), the Board member of the American Association for Chinese Studies, and the International Advisory Board of Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Approaches to Chinese Literature (Routledge Book Series).
Educational Background
- PhD in Comparative Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana (USA)
Research Interests
- Taiwan and Sinophone studies
- literature, film, and video games.
Recent publications
Publications since 2021
Edited Books & Special Issues
- The Southern Discourse in Sinophone Literature: Moving Borders. Co-edited by Chia-rong Wu, Min-xu Zhan, Alison Groppe, and Yenna Wu. Routledge, 2025.
- Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century: A Critical Reader. Co-edited with Ming-ju Fan. Springer, 2023.
- Special Issue: "Global South and Sinophone Literature." Co-edited with Min-xu Zhan. Sun Yat-sen Journal of Humanities 51 (2021).
Peer-Reviewed Articles & Book Chapters
- “On Taiwan’s Southwardism: The Politics of Becoming and Yao-Chang Chen’s Formosa Trilogy.” New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies (2026): 135–153.
- “Taiwan Extra and the Future of Sinophone Studies.” International Journal of Taiwan Studies (2025): 1–31. Co-written by Howard Chiang, Yu-ying Hu, Ronald C. Po, Scott Simon, and Chia-rong Wu. https://doi.org/10.1163/24688800-bja10182
- “On the Global South and Sinophone Literature.” ASIANetwork Exchange 29.1 (2025): 1–16. https://doi.org/10.16995/ane.8639
- “Introduction: On the Sinophone South.” In The Southern Discourse in Sinophone Literature: Moving Borders, edited by Chia-rong Wu, Min-xu Zhan, Alison Groppe, and Yenna Wu. Longdon: Routledge, 2025. 1–12. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003594116-1
- “Re-enter the Dragon: The Making of Post-Chinese Identities in Namewee’s Sinophone Music Production.” American Journal of Chinese Studies 32:1 (2025): 51–68.
- “Save the Children: Youth Narratives and Historical Learning in Three Taiwanese Horror Video Games.” International Journal of Taiwan Studies (2025): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1163/24688800-20251390
- “Through an Indigenous Lens: Syaman Rapongan’s Rewriting of Oceanic Taiwan.” In Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century, edited by Chia-rong Wu and Ming-ju Fan. Singapore, Springer, 2023. 153–164. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8380-1_11
- “Introduction.” In Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century, edited by Chia-rong Wu and Ming-ju Fan. Singapore: Springer, 2023. 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8380-1_1
- “Towards Sinophone Poetics: Andrew Huang and his Musical Poetry.” Taiwan Lit and the Global Sinosphere 3.2 (2022).
- “From Detention to Devotion: Historical Horror and Gaming Politics in Taiwan.” British Journal of Chinese Studies 12.2 (2022): 46–62. https://doi.org/10.51661/bjocs.v12i2.166
- “導論” [Introduction]. Co-authored with Min-xu Zhan. 「全球南方華文文學」專題 [Special Issue: Global South and Sinophone Literature]. Sun Yat-sen Journal of Humanities 51 (2021): 1–12.
- “Spectralizing the White Terror: Horror, Trauma, and the Ghost-Island Narrative in Detention.” Journal of Chinese Cinemas 15.1 (2021): 73–86. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508061.2021.1926156
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