Li-Ting Chang

Li-Ting Chang’s research interests focus on Chinese literature, print media, affect theories, gender studies, and popular culture. Her dissertation project explores the interplay between romantic love and the love letter in Sinophone communities during the early twentieth century. She is also one of the leaders of the Taiwan Studies Workshop (TSW). From 2023 to 2024, she served as a program commissioner for the North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA).

Academic History
M.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2018-2021.
B.A., Philosophy (Chinese Literature Minor), National Taiwan University, 2013-2018.

Advisors
Xiaorong Li (Chair)
Hangping Xu
Thomas Mazanec

Awards
– Winner of the 2023 ASPAC-Mori Graduate Student Paper Prize in Asian Studies for the article “A Club of Laughter: Expanding Notions of Taiwaneseness through Humor (1930-1935)”
– Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award in Comparative Literature, 2024
– Center for Taiwan Studies Fellowship, 2021-2024
– Mainstreaming Taiwan Studies Research Grant, 2022

Publication
– M.A. Thesis. “Self-representation in Selected Poems of Gu Taiqing (1799-1877)” (2021)
– “(Re)Writing Taiwan Studies History” in Taiwan Insight