Lin, Wen-Ling

Research Grants from the Ministry of Science and Technology

• Staging Taiwan: Nation-Imagining and Modern Theatre in a Postcolonial Global Era (2000–2010) (2025/08/01--2027/07/31)（NSTC 114-2410-H-002 -192 -MY2）

•  Another Face of Theater by and for Migrant Workers and Marriage Immigrants in Taiwan: Case Studies of Multi-cultural Children Drama, Drama-in-Education and Theatre-in-Education(2023/08/01--2025/07/31)（112-2410-H-002-146-MY2）

• 2020—2023, Research Project: Drama as Method: Voices of Migrant Workers and Marriage Immigrants in Taiwan’s Theatre,109-2410-H-024 -003 -MY3

• 2019, Research Project: Imagining 17 th Formosa in Taiwan’s Theatre(II), 2019/8/1--2020/7/31(108-
  2410-H-024 -002)

• Taiwan's Ministry of Science Grant :“Imagining Seventeenth-Century Formosa (I): Representing History and Performing Ethnic Encounter.2018/8/1--2019/7/31(107-2410-H-024 -020)

• Taiwan's Ministry of Science Grant : "Theories and Application of Theatre Iconography(II): Reading Hogarth's David Garrick as Richard III."2016/8/1--2017/7/31  (105-2410-H-024 -006 -)

• Taiwan's Ministry of Science Grant : "Theories and Application of Theatre Iconography(I)" Aug 1, 2015--July 31, 2016 (104-2410-H-024-025-)

• Taiwan's National Science Council Research Grant: "The Triumph of Adultery: Sexual/Gender Transgression and Genre Divergence in Erudite Comedy" 2013, Aug 1 to 2014 July 31(102-2628-H-024-001-)   

• Taiwan's National Science Council Research Grant: "Re-examining 'the Cult of Grotowski' in Taiwan: the Transformation of Grotowski in the Performing Arts Circle and Taiwanese Scholarhip on Grotowski's 'Theatre of Productions' " 2011,Aug. 1 to 2012 July 31 (100-2410-H-024-030-)

 

Journal Articles

• "Raising Awareness for Marginalized Transnational Migrants on the Taiwanese Stage: Narrative Strategies and Representation in The Qibla and Homecoming." Asian Theatre Journal. Vol.42,1 (Spring 2025):129-159 (A&HCI)DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/atj.2025.a962138

• "Drama as Method: A Preliminary Examination of the Development of Theatre for, by, and about Migrant Workers and Marriage Immigrants from Southeastern Asia in Taiwan (2009-2020)." Journal of Theatre Studies, Vol. 33(Jan. 2024): 75-122 (THCI core)

• "Migrant Workers and Marriage Immigrants from Southeastern Asia Narrating and Performing Their Life Stories: The Affective Space and Politics in People’s Theatre, Look at Us, The Cry of the Poor, and I Have a Dream." Journal of Theatre Studies, Vol. 31(Jan. 2023): 1-38 (THCI core)

• "Translating/Performing 17th Kingdom of Dadu: Representing History and Imagining the
  Papora in Museum Theatre The Legend of King Dadu." Taipei Theatre Journal, Vol.35
  (Jan.2022):7-36. (THCI core)

• "The Interstices and Reconstructing from Archive to Drama: The Historical
  Representation of Seventeenth Century Taiwan in English Radio Docudrama Tales of
  Dutch Formosa." Taipei Theatre Journal, Vol.33 (Jan.2021):7-34. (THCI core)

• "The Formation of Utopia: Imagining 17th Century Taiwan in the Taike Musical Pirates and Formosa and in the Braodway-style Musical Zeelandia-Return to Formosa." Journal of Taiwan Literary Studies. Vol.29:249-286. (THCI)

• "Reading Hogarth's Painting Garrick as Richard the Third as a Theatrical Document and Social Text." Journal of Art Studies. Vol.24:81-149. (THCI)

• "A Queer Fantasy World of The New Member : the Phenomenon of the First Boys' Love Musical in Taiwan." Asian Theatre Journal. Vol.35, 2 (Fall 2018):418-442. (A&HCI)

• “The Triumph of Adultery: Several Assumptions of Divergence of Genre and of Sexual/Gender Transgression in Erudite Comedy." Taipei Theatre Journal, Vol.27 (Jan.2018):101-140. (THCI)

• "Exploring David Garrick's Natural Acting: Context, Content, and Theory." Journal of Theatre Studies, Vol.21 (Jan. 2018): 89-132. (THCI, First Level)

• "Night on the Milky Way Train." Asian Theatre Journal. (Review article) Vol. 35:1 (Spring 2018): 211-215. (A & HCI). 

• "From King Lear to Questioning Heaven: The Urge to Edify in Chinese Cultural and Linguistic Contexts and Its Issues of Adaptation." Journal of Theatre Studies, Vol. 20 (Jul. 2017): 65-102.

• "The Seduction of Pictorial Images: Mapping the Theoretical Development of Theatre Iconography and Its Analytical Framework." Journal of Theatre Studies, No. 19 (Jan.2017): 135-188. (THCI, First Level)

• "The Impossibility of Being Taiwanese in Chi Wei-jan's Utopia Ltd." Asian Theatre Journal, Vol.32, 1 (Spring. 2015) (University of Hawaii Press):  159-189 ( A&HCI ).

• "Irresistible Sensation and Marketing: The Body and Gender Performance of Adah Issacs Menken on the Nineteenth- Century American Stage and off stage." Arts Review, Vol. 28 (Jan. 2015):37-75.(THCI)

• "Raising Social Consciousness through the Adaptation of a Western Classic:The 2014 Graduation Production Can't Pay? Won't Pay! By the Department of Drama Creation and Application of National University of Tainan." Journal of Aesthetic Education, Vol. 202 (Dec. 2014) :84-95. (THCI)

• "From Nora to Madam Mao:Pictures, Daily Performance and Gender Discourse." Journal of Women’s and Gender Studies, Vol. 34 (Jun. 2014): 77-135. (THCI)

• "Artaudian Concepts and Audience-Actor Relationship in Akropolis by the Laboratory Theater and Paradise Now by the Living Theatre." Research in Drama Education & Theatre Studies, Vol. 5 (Mar. 2014): 59-82.

• "How Grotowski Became Taiwanese: The Dissemination and Remaking of Grotowski in The Project of Tracing Back." Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol.24, Issue01(Mar. 2014): 89-101.(A&HCI)

• "The West as a Performing Site for Asian History: On the Representation of History, Ritual Performance , and Imagistic Theatre in Forgiveness." Journal of Theatre Studies, No.12 (July 2013): 195-226. (THCI Core)

• "Women and Nation: Human Condition II: Those Men in Her Life as National Allegory and Its Representation of History." Journal of Theatre Studies, No. 11 (Jan. 2013): 113-136. (THCI Core)

•  "Deconstructing the Red Metanarrative: The Red Lantern and Receiving Model Opera with Two Small Narratives in China and Taiwan." Taipei Theatre Journal, Vol. 15 (Jan. 2012): 141-171. (THCI)

• "Translating A Doll House in Taiwan." Perspectives: Studies in Translatology Vol.16 (Mar. 2009) : 105-123.  (A&HCI)

• "Troy, Troy…Taiwan: Transformation from Epic to Elegy." Text & Presentation, 2009 : 102-115.  (ISSN 1054-724X, ISBN:978-0-7864-4706-0)

• "Jiajiang Youth and Their Ritual: Seeking Recognition in the Wrong Place."  SAGAR: A South Asia Graduate Research Journal, Vol. 18 (spring 2008): 31-38.

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Books or Book Chapters 

• "The Seduction of Pictorial Images: Historical Evidence, Social Text and Cultural Performance." Taipei: National Taiwan University Press, 2024. (ISBN 978-986-3508-70-0) 

• "A Doll House: A New Translation in Chinese." Taipei: Independent and Unique, 2021. (ISBN 978-986-5540-25-8)

• "The Challenges of Play Translation and Cultural Transmission: Translating Jingyi paidui:déjà  vu ( A Surprise Party ) from Mandarin to English"Proceedings of International Symposium on Cross-Cultural, (Taipei: Fu Jen Catholic University ): 119-134, 2011. (ISBN 978-986-6221-45-3)

• "Troy, Troy,…Taiwan : Transformation from Epic to Elegy." Text & Presentation,  2009, (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland): 102-115, 2010. (ISSN 1054-724X) (ISBN 978-0-7864-4706-0)

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Conference Presentations

• "Adapted Playback Theatre as Field Research: A Critical Study of Love Across the Sea by Taiwan's Hsinchu Women's Theatre Troupe on Marriage Immigrants and Their Children." 47th Comparative Drama Conference, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, London, UK, July 11, 2025.

• "Context, Strategies, and Challemges of Multicultural Children's Theatre in Taiwan: A Case Study of the Sunflower Children's Theater and the Six Arts Theatre." Rethinking Theatre/Drama as an Encounter: The 2024 NTU International Theatre Conference. Oct. 27, 2024, Taipei, Taiwan.

• "Theatre for Raising Awareness: Narrative Strategies and Representation of Marginalized Transnational Migrants in 'The Qibla' and 'Homecoming'." The IAFOR International Conference on Arts & Humanities in Hawaii (IICAH2024), Jan. 5, 2024, Honolulu: Hawaii, USA.

• "Drama as Method: A Preliminary Examination of the Development of Theatre for, by, and about Migrant Workers and Marriage Immigrants from Southeastern Asia in Taiwan (2009-2020)." Drama, Media, and Communication: The 2022 NTU International Theatre Conference, Oct. 22, 2022, Taipei, Taiwan.
  "Migrant Workers and Marriage Immigrants from Southeastern Asia Narrating and Performing Their Life Stories: The Affective Space and Politics in People’s Theatre, Look at Us, The Cry of the Poor, and I Have a Dream."，The 2021 DDCA (at NUTN) Theatre Conference. Oct.22, 2021, online.

• "Translating/Performing 17th Kingdom of Dadu: Representing History and Imagining thePapora in Museum Theatre The Legend of King Dadu." 2019 Performance as Method from Global Perspectives: Historical Memory, Technologies of the Self, and Cultural Production Conference. Dec. 05, 2019, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. 

• "From Archives to Radio Docudrama and Museum Theatre: Encountering the Dutch and the Aboriginal in 17th century Taiwan" 43 Comparative Drama Conference, Florida, USA, April 5, 2019.

• "The Formation of Utopia: Imagining 17th Century Taiwan in the Taike Musical Pirates and Formosa and in the Braodway-style Musical Zeelandia-Return to Formosa." 2018NUTN International Applied/Theatre Conference: Shaping Modern and Applied Theatre in Asia. Oct. 20, 2018, Tainan, Taiwan.

• "The Seduction of Pictorial Images: Mapping the Theoretical Development of Theatre Iconography and Its Analytical Framework."The 2015 International Drama Education and Application  Conference. Oct. 18, 2015, Tainan, Taiwan.

• “The Triumph of Adultery: Several Assumptions of Divergence of Genre and of Sexual/Gender Transgression in Erudite Comedy." Subjectivity, Textuality, and Theatrical Practice: 2014 NTU International Conference on Theatre. Nov. 08, Taipei, Taiwan.

• "Women and Nation: Human Condition II: Those Men in Her Life as National Allegory and Its Representation of History."，The 2015 International Drama Education and Application  Conference. Oct. 28, Tainan, Taiwan.

• "The West as a Performing Site for Asian History: On the Representation of History, Ritual Performance , and Imagistic Theatre in Forgiveness."，THE 2012 NTU INTERNATIONAL THEATRE CONFERENCE. Oct. 21, Taipei, Taiwan.

• "Women and Nation: Human Conditions II: Those Men in Her Life as National Allegory." 2012  International conference of Drama Education and Application. Oct. 28, 2012,Tainan, Taiwan.

• "The West as a Performing Site for Asian History: On the Representation of History, Ritual Performance , and Imagistic Theatre in Forgiveness." The 2012 NTU International Theatre  Conference. Oct.21,2012, Taipei, Taiwan.   

• "How Grotowski Became Taiwanese: The Dissemination and Remaking of Grotowski in The Project of Tracing Back." 35th Comparative Drama Conference, Mar. 31, 2012, Baltimore, USA.

• "The Challenges of Play Translation and Cultural Transmission: Translating Jingyi paidui:déjà vu (A Surprise Party) from Mandarin to English." 2010 International Cross-Cultural Studies Conference, Dec. 12, 2010, New Taipei, Taiwan.

• "What is Left Unsaid in Forgiveness: Re-presenting History in a  Theatrical Work of Fusion and Confusion." 34th Comparative Drama  Conference, Mar. 26, 2010, Los Angeles, USA.

• "‘The Cult of Grotowski’ and Taiwan’s Nativization (bentuhua)   Movement." The British Grotowski Conference, Jun. 14, 2009,  University of Kent, UK.

• "Troy, Troy…Taiwan: The Transformation from an Epic to an Elegy, Troy to Taiwan." 33rd Comparative Drama Conference, Mar. 26,  2009, Los Angeles, USA.

• "Floods and Monsters Are on the Way: The Red Lantern in Taipei and  Its Aftermath." Association for Asian Performance, 8th Annual Conference, Jul. 30, 2008, Denver, USA.

• "Jiajiang Youth and Their Ritual: Submissive or Subversive?" Tufts 11th Annual Graduate  Student  Research Symposium. Apr. 7, 2007, Boston, USA.

• "Irresistible Sensation—Adah Isaacs Menken’s Enactment of the Body." National  Popular Culture Association Conference. Apr. 6, 2007, Boston, USA.

• "Jiajiang Youths and Their Ritual: Seeking Redemption in the Wrong Place." Asian Studies Graduate Conference(University of Texas at Austin), Oct.14, 2006, Texas, USA.