HENK VYNCKIER: CV Nov. 2012
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Education
1985-89: Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
1983-85: M.A. in Comparative Literature, University of Georgia at Athens.
1979-83: Licenciate in Germanic Languages and Literatures; University of Antwerp (Belgium).
Summer 1987: Paleography Summer Course at the Center for Reformation Research at
Concordia College in St. Louis, Missouri.
Doctoral Dissertation: "A Concert of Hells: Journeys to the Underworld in Fin de Siècle
Literature."
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Employment and Administrative Experience
May 18, 2010 till present: Chair, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Tunghai
University.
August 1993 to July 1997: Chair, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature; Tunghai
University.
1989 till present: Associate Professor, Tunghai University.
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Research Interests
George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-four, Orwell in/and Asia, Orwell and collecting
Literature of travel, adventure and empire (“Hearts of Darkness” writings, Western writings
about Taiwan, barbarians, Liudprand of Cremona, etc.)
The literary legacy of the foreign community in nineteenth and early twentieth century East Asia
(China, Taiwan): life writing, travel literature, fiction, essays, etc. by Robert Hart, J. O. P.
Bland, Paul King, H. B. Morse and other British and American residents of East Asia.
The cultures of collecting; collecting/collectors as a literary theme; bibliophilia.
Visual culture and the representation of visual culture in literature.
Representing Britain: the “Britain in Pictures” series, 1941-1950
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Publications
4.1
Book
Ping-hui Liao and Henk Vynckier, eds., Literature, Identity and Subjectivity:
Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Comparative Literature Association of
the R.O.C. (Taipei: R.O.C. Comparative Literature Association and Tunghai University, 1996).
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Papers in Books and Journal Articles
With Chang Chih-yun. “Robert Hart's Diaries: Life Writing of an Old China Hand” in
CLC Web: Comparative Literature and Culture (Purdue University Press) 14.4 (forthcoming
Dec. 2012).
“Veiled Autobiography: George Orwell, Winston Smith and Nineteen Eighty-four” in
John Rodden, ed., George Orwell: Critical Insights, (Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2012) 240-257.
“A Compromising Possession: Some Material Culture Themes in Orwell’s Nineteen
Eighty-four,” in Chen Peng-hsiang and Terry Russell, eds., How Much Multiple/Minor Is
Literature? Fo Guang University Occasional Papers Series (Ilan, Taiwan: Fo Guang University,
forthcoming 2012).
“Behold the Franks: Aamin Maalouf’s The Crusades Through Arab Eyes Revisited” in
the Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture (special issue on "Barbarians East and West
before 1700"), Dec. 2011: 1-11.
“Museifying Formosa: George Mackay’s From Far Formosa,” in Eric Hayot, Steve Yao,
and Haun Saussy, eds., Sinographies: Writing China (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 2008) 247-270.
Contributed 7 chapters to Chen Dar-wu, ed., Practical English (Taipei: National Open
University, 1997 and 2007).
"Exotic Hades: the Representation of Alien Lands as Underworlds in European
Literature," History of European Ideas [special issue on European Cultural Identities and the
World Outside Europe edited by Loyd Kramer] 6 (1992) 863-76.
Essays on Beatrijs of Nazareth, Sister Bertken, Agatha Deken, Rachilde, Hélène Swarth,
Renée Vivien, Elizabeth Wolff-Bekker, and Marguerite Yourcenar in Katharina M. Wilson, ed.,
The Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers (New York: Garland Publishing, 1991).
"Poetry from Behind Bars: Some Translations from the Dutch Recluse Sister Bertken
(1430-1517)," Mystics Quarterly 3 (1988): 143-153.
"Arms-Talks in the Middle Ages: Hrotsvit, Waltharius and the Heroic via," in Katharina
M. Wilson, ed., Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: Rara Avis in Saxonia? Medieval and Renaissance
Monograph Series, 7 (Ann Arbor: the M.A.R.C. Publishing Company, 1987) 183-200.
"Liudprandi passio: Martyrdom and Satire in Liudprand of Cremona's Legatio ad
imperatorem Constantinopoli Nicephorum Phocam," in Pedro F. Campa, et al., eds., Medieval
Perspectives (1986) 54-64.
"Misogamy and Pseudo-Misogamy in Waltharius 123-169," Germanic Notes 16 (1985):
57-60.
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4.3
In Preparation
With John Rodden. Orienting Orwell: Asian and Global Perspectives on George Orwell.
Special issue of Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies (March 2014).
With Fan I-chun, Chang Chih-yun, and others. The Journals of Sir Robert Hart: 18671869 (annotated text edition of volumes 9, 10, 11 and 12 of unpublished diary; the Academia
Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan).
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Conference Papers and Invited Lectures
"'But
Who Can Resist It?’ Tracing Orwell’s Collecting Project from Burma to
Oceania” (The 20th Annual Conference of the English and American Literature Association; Fu
Jen University, Taipei; Nov. 24, 2012).
With Chih-yun Chang. “Touring China: Robert Hart’s Travels and Spatial Imagination”
(“Landscape, Seascape, and the Spatial Imagination”: the 2012 International Conference of the
Center for the Humanities; National Sun Yat Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Nov. 2-3,
2012).
“Walpole’s Portraits: Collecting the Gothic in The Castle of Otranto” (The 6th Annual
Conference of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Tunghai
University; Oct. 26-27, 2012).
With Chih-yun Chang. “A ‘fly on the wheel’ of evolution: Robert Hart’s (Self)Representations” (Framing Lives: 8th Biennial International Auto/Biography Association [IAB])
Conference: Australian National University; Canberra, Australia; 17-20 July 2012;).
Invited lecture: “A Talk on European Culture: George Orwell’s Animal Farm,” (Da Yeh
University; Department of English; Wednesday May 30, 2012).
Plenary speech: “Big Brother Is Coming to an iPad Near You: Teaching Orwell in a
Paperless Classroom” (The 2012 International Conference on English Teaching: Corpora, ELearning and ESP; Tainan U. of Technology; May 26, 2012)
“The Life-Writing Project of Sir Robert Hart” (Symposium: Modern China and the
Imperial Maritime Customs; Center for Geographic Information Science; Research Center for
Humanities and Social Science; Academia Sinica; Taipei; April 9-10, 2012)
“From Telescreens to eReaders: Teaching Orwell in a Paperless Classroom” (The Ninth
Joint Conference of the Asia-Pacific Association of Multimedia-Assisted Language Learning and
the Multimedia English Learning and Instruction Association in Taiwan on Multimedia
Language Education with Digital Contents; National Kaohsiung Normal University; Kaohsiung;
Dec. 16-18, 2011)
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Invited lecture: “Occupying Animal Farm: What George Orwell’s Animal Farm Can Tell
Us about Bulls, Bears and Piggy Banks” (Chung Shan Medical University; Dec. 14, 2011;
Taichung).
With Chih-yun Chang, “Robert Hart's Diaries: Life Writing by an Old China Hand,”
(“The Journey and Its Portrayals: Explorers, Sailors, (Im)migrants”; International Conference of
the Center for the Humanities; National Sun Yat Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Nov. 25-26,
2011)
Invited lecture: “Collector vs. Collectivist: Reading Nineteen Eighty-four in Light of
Orwell’s Collecting Interests” (Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Feng Chia
University; March 7, 2011)
“A Compromising Possession: Some Material Culture Themes in Orwell’s Nineteen
Eighty-four,” (“Divergence and Convergence in the Global Cultural Production”; International
Conference Jointly Organized by Fo Guang University, the University of Manitoba and Takming
University; Nov. 19-20, 2010)
“A Document of Barbarism: Liudprand of Cremona’s Legatio” (the Fourth International
Conference of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies
[TACMRS]; National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan; October 30-31, 2010)
“Mapping Bibliophilia at the Turn of the Century” (Mapping the World: Migration and
Border-crossing; the 2009 International Conference of the Center for the Humanities and Social
Sciences, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung Taiwan; Oct. 31-Nov. 1, 2009)
“Behold the Franks: Amin Maalouf’s The Crusades Through Arab Eyes Revisited” (The
First International Conference of The Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and
Renaissance Studies; Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan; April 27-28, 2007)
“Renewing the Old: on the Use of Rare and Collectible Books in the English Literature
Classroom in Taiwan” (The 5th Annual International Wenshan Conference on English Language
Teaching, Literature, and Linguistics; National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan; March 19,
2005)
“The Missionary’s Museum: Travel, Ethnography, and Exoticism in George Mackay’s
From Far Formosa” (Beyond Borders II: An International Conference on Art, Literature and
Travel; May 27-28, 2000; National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
“Western Flâneurs in Asian Cities: Urban Descents in Contemporary Orientalist Fiction”
(The Eighth Quadrennial International Conference on Comparative Literature in the R.O.C.; Aug.
27-29, 1999; Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taiwan)
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"Exotic Hades: the Representation of Alien Lands as Underworlds in European
Literature." The 2nd Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas
(The Univ. of Louvain, Belgium; Sept. 3-8, 1990).
"The Recluse's Credo: Reading Bertken's `Ic was in min hoofkijn om cruyt gegaen.'" The
24th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan Univ.; May 4-7, 1989).
"The Decadent in Hell: Journeys to the Underworld in Fin de Siècle Literature." The
42nd Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (Univ. of Kentucky at Lexington; April 28-29,
1989).
Presentation in Dutch: "Een lied van Suster Bertken (+1516)" ["A Lyric of Sister
Bertken”]; Department of Germanic Philology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Campus
Kortrijk (Belgium); January 15, 1988.
"The Artist and the Artiste in Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Couperus, and Rilke." The 7th
Biennial Symposium on International Cultural Perspectives in Literature and Language (George
Mason Univ.; Fairfax, Virginia; Nov. 13-14, 1987).
"Public Cain and Private Abel: Peter Abelard, Liudprand of Cremona and the Problem of
Christian Autobiography." The Third Annual Conference of the Medieval Association of the
Midwest (Cleveland State Univ.; Cleveland, Ohio; October 3, 1987).
"The Intellectual and Mystical Background of Sister Bertken's `Vision.'" The 22nd
International Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan Univ.; May 7-10, 1987).
"Decadence, Mimesis, and Myth: the Theme of the Portrait Gallery in Fin de Siècle
Literature." The 40th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (Univ. of Kentucky at
Lexington; April 23-25, 1987).
"The Monk in the Mirror: Chaucer's Daun Piers and the Poetics of Remembraunce." The
12th Annual Conference of the Southeastern Medieval Association (Univ. of Georgia at Athens;
Oct 23-25, 1986).
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Cricket: a Rhetorical Investigation of the Waltharius." The
21st International Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan Univ. at Kalamazoo; May
8-11, 1986).
"Liudprandi passio: Martyrdom and Satire in Liudprand of Cremona's Legatio." The
11th Annual Conference of the Southeastern Medieval Association (Univ. of Tennessee at
Chattanooga; Oct 10-12, 1985).
"The Serf, the Devil, and the Jew: a Comparative Reading of Dolopathos (c. 1200), Gesta
Romanorum nr. 195, and The Merchant of Venice." The 12th Annual Conference of the
Shakespeare and Renaissance Association of West Virginia (Marshall Univ.; April 11-12, 1985).
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4.5
Book Reviews
C. Harper-Bill and R. Harvey, eds., The Ideals and Practice of Medieval Knighthood
(Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 1986) in Synopsis 1 (1988): 73-76.
G. J. Weinberger, trans., Berta Garlan by Arthur Schnitzler (New York and Bern: Peter
Lang, 1987) in Germanic Notes 2/3 (1989): 31.
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National Science Council Research Grants and Awards, Ministry of Education
Development Grants and Other Distinctions
National Science Council Research Grant: August 1, 2012 to July 31, 2014: “’Men who
loved books’: the Literary Legacy of the Foreign Community in East Asia, 1860-1930.”
(「嗜書者」：1860-1930 年外籍社群在東亞的文學遺產) 101-2410-H-029-048-MY2
National Science Council Research Grant: August 1, 2011 to July 31, 2012: “Robert
Hart’s Diaries and Letters: Life Writing by an Old China Hand” (赫德日記及書信： 一個 中國
老手 的隨筆手札) 100-2410-H-029-049August 2012 to July 3013 and August 2011 to July 2012: Ministry of Education Special
Department Development Grants: “iTunes University Content Production Grant” (300.000 NT)
and “Digital Content Development Grant” (300.000 NT)
Spring 1993: National Science Council Award for Excellence in Scholarship
Spring 1990, 1991, and 1992: National Science Council Research Award
Summer 1990: National Science Council Travel Grant
6.
Conferences Organized
“‘Infinite riches in a little room’: Collecting as a Cultural Practice and Literary Theme in
Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Renaissance” (The 6th Annual International Conference of the
Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Tunghai University; Oct.
20-22, 2012)
“George Orwell: Asian and Global Perspectives” (Tunghai University; May 21, 2011).
“Cities / Stories: 15th Symposium of the Consortium for the Centers of the Humanities”
(Tunghai University; May 22, 2010).
“Literature, Identity and Subjectivity: the Twentieth Annual Conference of the
Comparative Literature Association of the R.O.C.” (Taichung, Tunghai University, 1996).
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“The Twelfth Annual R.O.C. TESL Conference” (Taichung, Tunghai University, May 30
1995).
Organizer of sessions on Liudprand of Cremona and Medieval Netherlandic Literature at
the International Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo;
1988 and 1989).
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Other
2011-2012: Member of Ministry of Education High School English Education Reform
Committee (Central Taiwan Office: Ministry of Education)
Nov. 5, 2011: “Cities, Collecting and Performance”: Round Table on The Politics of
Performance (The 5th Annual Conference of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and
Renaissance Studies; National Sun Yat Sen University; Kaohsiung; Nov. 4-5, 2011).
Oct. 2010: reviewer for The Sun Yat-sen Journal of Humanities.
Jan. 6, 2010: “Pointing Fingers in Formosa: Rare Books in the FLLD and Related
Projects,” presented in the Tunghai Department of Foreign Languages Research Seminar.
Nov. 25, 2009: Respondent for paper by Richard Burt (Professor, English and Film and
Media Studies, University of Florida) on "Certain Tendencies in Criticism of Shakespeare on
Film" in a Representing Shakespeare seminar organized by the Humanities and Social Sciences
Research Center at National Sun Yat Sen University (Kaohsiung).
Spring 1998: Respondent, Cultural Studies Symposium at Tunghai University.
1994- : moderator of panels/sessions at the 1994 ETA Conference, the 1995 national
ROC TESL Conference, the 2006 Conference of the English/American Literature Association,
the 2008 Conference of the TACMRS, the 2008 International Conference of the Humanities and
Social Sciences Research Center at NSYSU, etc.
Fall 1990: Consultant, National Science Council, Taipei.
Fall 1988: consultant and proofreader; Barbara H. Jaye, The Pilgrimage of Prayer: The
Texts and Iconography of the Exercitium Super Pater Noster (Salzburg: Institut fur Anglistik und
Amerikanistik, 1990).
8.
Membership in Professional Organizations
Board member: Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
The Orwell Society (UK)
The Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies (TACMRS)
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Languages
Native fluency in Dutch and English, near-native fluency in French, reading fluency in
Latin and German, speaking fluency in Mandarin Chinese.
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