{"id":7151,"date":"2020-08-26T19:06:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T11:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itsc.ntnu.edu.tw\/?p=7151"},"modified":"2020-08-26T19:08:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T11:08:58","slug":"20200826-2-shu-mei-shih-appointed-edward-w-said-professor-of-comparative-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itsc.ntnu.edu.tw\/index.php\/en\/2020\/08\/26\/20200826-2-shu-mei-shih-appointed-edward-w-said-professor-of-comparative-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Shu-mei Shih appointed Edward W. Said Professor of Comparative Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shu-mei Shih appointed Edward W. Said Professor of Comparative Literature<\/h1>\n

“UCLA International Institute, August 7, 2020<\/em> \u2014 Shu-mei Shih<\/a> \u2014 professor of comparative literature, Asian languages and cultures and Asian American studies \u2014 was appointed the inaugural Edward W. Said Professor of Comparative Literature at UCLA in mid-July.<\/p>\n

Said (1935\u20132003) was a longtime professor of literature at Columbia University who founded the field of postcolonial studies and is widely known for his theory of Orientalism. The UCLA professorship has a three-year term, during which Shih plans to initiate an annual Edward W. Said lecture on campus.<\/p>\n

‘I am thrilled and honored to be awarded a chair professorship that bears the name of one of my intellectual heroes. All of my work, one way or another, has been influenced by Edward Said\u2019s scholarship and activism. I hope my work honors his legacy in return,’ said Shih.<\/p>\n

The professorship is one of many recent career honors bestowed on Shih, who joined the UCLA faculty in 1993. In 2019, she became president-elect<\/a> of the American Comparative Literature Association<\/a> (ACLA); she is currently the organization’s vice president. In 2018, National Taiwan Normal University<\/a> (NTNU) awarded her its distinguished alumna award in recognition of her lifetime scholarly achievement, while simultaneously appointing her Honorary Chair Professor of Taiwan Languages, Literature and Culture.<\/p>\n

Shih currently directs the UCLA-NTNU Taiwan Studies Initiative<\/a> of the UCLA Asia Pacific Center<\/a>, which supports the two-way exchange of faculty and graduate students between the universities, and has been a fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities<\/a> since 2013.<\/p>\n

A prolific scholar and teacher, the UCLA scholar has supervised the dissertations of some 30 doctoral students and served on the dissertation committees of numerous others.”<\/p>\n

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The above has been reposted from the UCLA Asia Pacific Center News Site.\u00a0 For the full story, please <\/em><\/strong>click here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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