Dr. Ya-chen Chen is renowned as a writer, an educator and a gender equality advocate with a career spanning more than 25 years of distinction in Sino-Western comparative literature studies.
CHUNG-LI DISTRICT, TAIWAN, April 10, 2020 -- Ya-chen Chen, PhD, has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Dr. Chen is renowned as a writer, an educator and a gender equality advocate with a career spanning more than 25 years of distinction in Sino-Western comparative literature, women's and gender studies, cinema studies, and teaching pedagogy of languages. She credits her interest in her field to the obstacles that she has faced: when she was born, her parents had been expecting a son, and as a child and young professional, she was driven to become an example of how women could become high achievers. Dr. Chen notably earned a Bachelor of Arts in foreign languages and literature and a Master of Arts in foreign and comparative literature from National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan.
In 2000, Dr. Chen obtained a Master of Arts in East Asian literature and cultures at Columbia University. A Lynn interdisciplinary fellow in the women's studies program at Purdue University from 2000 to 2004, she completed another summer fellowship with the Purdue Research Foundation the same year. In 2005, Dr. Chen graduated with a Ph.D. Major in Sino-Western comparative literature and a Ph.D. Minor in Women's and Gender Studies at Purdue University.
Dr. Chen began her career as a research assistant for the National Science Council from 1995 to 1997 before briefly serving as an academic administrator for Academica Sinica from 1997 to 1998. Working as a lecturer at Chin Min College in 1998, she was additionally active as a teaching associate of Columbia University from 1999 to 2000 and a graduate instructor at Purdue University from 2000 to 2004. During this time, Dr. Chen flourished as a visiting scholar at Academia Sinica and the Beijing Academy of Social Science.
From 2005 to 2006, Dr. Chen found success as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Notre Dame and Union College and a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University. Appointed as an assistant professor at Winona State University for the 2006 to 2007 academic year, she subsequently accepted a position as an assistant professor of foreign languages and literature and director of Asian Studies with the City University of New York, where she established the school's first graduate level Chinese language and Chinese cultural studies classes. Dr. Chen excelled as an assistant professor at Clark University between 2010 to 2013.
Between 2014 and 2019, Dr. Chen thrived at China Medical University as a project assistant professor, the deputy director of the school's foreign languages program, and the director of the language center. She continues to teach as an associate professor in the aforementioned university's College of Humanities and Science. Dr. Chen is perhaps most noted for her body of academic research centered on gender equality and politics in contemporary and historical Chinese culture. In February 2020, the Ministry of Education, Taiwan, issued an officially legal order to China Medical University in terms of Dr. Chen's promotion from the level of associate professor to the level of full professor. Following the foot-steps of Stanford TV/Radio, Dr. Chen created the CMU Net TV (nettv.cmu.edu.tw). Dr. Chen designed four Sino-English bilingual TV programs: (1) TCM Daily Phrase (https://nettv.cmu.edu.tw/daily.php) (2) TCM Kitchen Show of Medicated Herbal Cuisine (https://nettv.cmu.edu.tw/kitchen.php) (3) East-West Medicine Joint Consultation (https://nettv.cmu.edu.tw/consultation.php) (4) Movie Marathon (https://nettv.cmu.edu.tw/run.php).
An invited reviewer for the PMLA Journal, Dr. Chen has been an invited contributor to the Australian National University's East Asian Forum, among other panels. She has published multiple academic monographs, including The Many Dimensions of Chinese Feminism in 2011, Women in Chinese Martial Arts Films of the New Millennium: Narrative Analyses and Gender Politics in 2012, and Early 21st Century Power Struggles of Chinese Languages Teaching in U.S. Higher Education in 2018. The second monograph inspired French filmmaker Yves Montmayeur's flight from Paris to Taiwan in order to include Dr. Chen in his documentary film, Dragon Girls, in the ARTE TV. She currently has plans for three more, exploring the impact of French feminist literary theories on Taiwanese women's films, the academic glass ceiling as it relates to Chinese-American female faculty, and queer literature and cinema in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Mainland China through the 1990s. In addition to her monographs, Dr. Chen has contributed to numerous journal articles, book chapters and reviews for professional publications, and has presented her work at conferences and symposia worldwide.
Since 2011, Dr. Chen has maintained her involvement as a member of the board of the American Association for Chinese Studies, where she has held a role as a reporting secretary since 2016. A past member of Columbia University's Modern China Forum, she is the recipient of extensive grant and scholarship awards, including an ongoing research grant from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation of International Scholarly Exchange. Dr. Chen is proud to have been recognized with a 2017 Teaching Excellence Award of Gender Egalitarianism from China Medical University, among many other accolades.
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