Joyce C. H. Liu

Joyce C. H. Liu (Chinese: 劉紀蕙) is a professor at the Graduate Institute for Social Research and Cultural Studies at the National Chiao Tung University and the Director of the International Institute for Cultural Studies, University System of Taiwan. The Cultural Research Institute in Taiwan is managed by Kuan-Hsing Chen - the first chairman, Joyce C. H. Liu - the second president, and Yuan-Horng Chu - the third president, who are cultural studies stronghold of the institute. She received her B.A. in English Literature at the Fu Jen Catholic University in 1978, her M.A. in Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1980, and her Ph.D in Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984. Her principal fields include Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Questions of Modernity in East Asia, Taiwanese Literature and Culture, Critical Theories on Politics, Aesthetics and Ethics, and Visual Culture and Inter-Art Studies.

Research

• Politics of the Void: Radical Theories on the Subject and Politics(2010 fall)
• East Asian Modernity: Politics and Ethics(2009 fall)
• Modernity in Asia: the Topology of the Subject(2008 spring)
• Modernity in Asia: Ethics and Aesthetics(2006 fall)
• Taiwan Popular Culture: Unit II—Identity Issues (2006 fall)
• Modernity in Asia: Re-treating the Political (2006 spring)
• Modernity and Cultural Translation(2004 fall)
• The Imperial Citizen and the Subject of Modernity in Japanese Colonial Period
• The Movement of Emperial Subjectivation and the Modern Subject in Japanese Colonial Taiwan(2003)
• Taiwanese Culture and Conolian Modernity(2002)
• History of Taiwan Literature: 1920s-1960s(2000)
• Taiwanese Literature: 1970-1990
• History of Taiwan Literature: Modernism and Nativist Literature(2000)
• Modernist Literature in Taiwan and China(1999)
• Topics on the History of Taiwan Literature(1998)
• Topics in Visual Theory: Memory, Writing and Performance(2007 spring)
• Topics in Visual Theory: Desire, Power and the Other(2005 fall)
• Visual Critique Theory(2002)
• Modernism and Modernity: East and West (2001)
• Visual theory(1999)
• Visual Culture and Historical Annotation(2000)
• Surrealism Literature and Art(1997)
• Latter Supposes the Movie and Comparison Art(1997)

Publications

Books (Author)

• The Topology of Psyche: The Post-1895 Event Reconfiguration of Ethics. Taipei: Flaneur, 2011. 446 ps. (with review system) (NSC Publication Award 2011)
• The Perverted Heart: The Psychic Forms of Modernity. Taipei: Ryefield Publisher, 2004. 368ps. (with review system) (National Institute for Compilation and Translation Publication Award 2004)
• Literature and Film: Image, Reality and Cultural Criticism. Taipei: 2003. 161 ps.(Publication sponsored by NSC)
• Orphan, Goddess, and the Writing of the Negative: The Performance of Our Symptoms. Taipei: Lixu Publisher, 2000. 470ps. (with review system)
• Eight Essays on Literature and the Other Arts: Intertextuality, Counterpoint and Cultural Interpretation. Taipei: San Ming Books Publisher, 1994. 193ps. (with review system)

Books (Editor)

• European-East Asian Borders in Translation. Eds. Joyce C. H. Liu and Nick Vaughan-Williams. London: Routledge, 2013. Forthcoming.
• Biopolitics, Ethics and Subjectivation. Eds. Joyce C.H. Liu & Alain Brossai, Yuan-Horng Chu, Rada Ivekovic. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2011.
• Special Issue: Koyasu Nobukuni. Joyce C.H. Liu. Ed. Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies. 2008.
• Visual Culture and Critical Theory I: Empire, Asia and the Question of Subject. . Ed. Joyce Chi-Hui Liu. Taipei: Ryefield Publisher, 2006.
• Visual Culture and Critical Theory II: Everyday Life and Popular Culture. . Ed. Joyce Chi-Hui Liu. Taipei: Ryefield Publisher, 2006.
• Visual Theories and Cultural Studies. d. Joyce Chi-Hui Liu. Taipei: Chung Wai Publisher, 2002.
• The Realms of the Other: Cultural Identities and Politics of Representation. Ed. Joyce Chi-Hui Liu. Taipei: Ryefield Publisher, 2000.
• China as Sign, Taiwan as Icon. Ed. Joyce Chi-hui Liu. Taipei: Chungwai Wenxue, 2000.
• Writing Taiwan. Eds. Chou Yingxung & Liu Chi-Hui Joyce. Taipei: Ryefield Publisher, 2000.
• Inter-Frames: Word-Image-Music and the Semiotic Boundaries. Ed. Joyce Chi-Hui Liu. Taipei: Lixu Publisher 1999. 475ps.

Courses Taught

• Materialist Dialectic and the Logic of Exchange (2013 Spring)
• Politics and Aesthetics : A Seminar on Rancière and Agamben (2012 Fall)
• Seminar on Freud and Cultural Theories(2011 fall)
• Seminar on Badiou and Ranciere (2011 spring)
• Seminar on Lacan:Subject and Language
• Seminar on Lacan and Badiou
• Seminar on Julia Kristeva
• Lacan and Badiou:The Truth, the Other and the Object
• Julia Kristeva I: Semiotics, Textuality and Politics
• The Problems of the Cultural Other
• Introduction to Cultural Studies
• The Sacred and the Abject
• Identification and the Subject
• Psychoanalysis & Cultural Studies:Identification & Subjectivity
• Introduction to Culture Studies 2002
• Psychoanalysis & Cultural Studies
• Julia Kristeva
• Paranoia and hysteria
• Psychoanalysis and cultural symbols

References

• Liu, Joyce. "The Graduate Institute for Social Research and Cultural Studies". Professor. National Chiao Tung University. Retrieved 2013-07-26. 

• Liu, Joyce. "Inter Asia Cultural Study Faculty Page". Professor. Inter Asia Cultural Study. Retrieved 2013-08-28. 

• Liu, Joyce. "Faculty Profile: The Graduate Institute for Social Research and Cultural Studies". Professor. National Chiao Tung University. Retrieved 2013-08-28.