Lin, Wen-Ling

Research Grants from the Ministry of Science and Technology

• 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)  (A&HCI)

• "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

• "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.