Shu-chuan Yan  is Professor of English in the Department of Western Languages and Literature at National University of Kaohsiung. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Manchester, with primary research interests in 19th-Century English novel, Victorian literature and culture, women’s studies, cultural geography, material culture studies, and postcolonial narratives.

Email: yannest@nuk.edu.tw

Phone: +886-7-5919559

Publications

Journal Articles

Yan, Shu-chuan. “Building the ‘Houses of Fiction’: Textual Spaces and Architectural Imagination in Eliza Meteyard’s Mainstone’s Housekeeper.” Textual Practice (online November 2020). [A&HCI]

Yan, Shu-chuan. “‘Kangaroo Politics, Kangaroo Ideas, and Kangaroo Society’: The Early Years of Melbourne Punch in Colonial Australia.” Victorian Periodicals Review 52.1 (2019): 80-102. [A&HCI]

Yan, Shu-chuan. “‘Our Artistic Home’: Adolescent Girls and Domestic Interiors in the Girl’s Own Paper.” Home Cultures 15.2 (2018): 181-208. [A&HCI]

Yan, Shu-chuan. “The Art of Working in Hair: Hair Jewelry and Ornamental Handiwork in Victorian Britain.” Journal of Modern Craft 12.2 (2019): 123-39. [A&HCI]

Yan, Shu-chuan. “Emotions, Sensations, and Victorian Working-class Readers.” Journal of Popular Culture 50.2 (2017): 317-40. [A&HCI]; [SSCI]

Yan, Shu-chuan. “Material Fashion and Needlewomen in the Victorian Periodical, 1840s-1850s.” NTU Studies in Language and Literature 36 (2016): 7-36. [THCI]

Yan, Shu-chuan. “‘Bright Glances’ or ‘Clever Hands’? The Domestic Image of Working-Class Women in Eliza Cook’s Journal.” Victorian Literature and Culture 44 (2016): 779-99.  [A&HCI]

Yan, Shu-chuan. “‘When Common Voices Speak’: Labour, Poetry and Eliza Cook.” Women’s Writing 22.4 (2015): 428-54.  [Routledge, Taylor & Francis]

Yan, Shu-chuan. “(Ad)dressing Women: Fashion and Body Image in Punch, 1850s-1860s.” Women’s Studies: An Inter-Disciplinary Journal. 43.6 (2014): 750-73. [A&HCI]

Yan, Shu-chuan. “Teaching Cranford in Taiwan.” Victorian Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Victorian Studies 38.1 (2012): 15-20. [Project Muse]

Yan, Shu-chuan. “Freak Shows, Monstrous Women, and the Missing Link: Reading Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White.” NTU Studies in Language and Literature 26 (2011): 137-68. [THCI] 

Yan, Shu-chuan. “‘Politics and Petticoats’: Fashioning the Nation in Punch Magazine 1840s-1880s.” Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture 15.3 (2011): 345-72.   [A&HCI]

Yan, Shu-chuan. “Between Fact and Myth: The Kingdom of the Non-Human in the Victorian Literary Imagination.” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 33.1 (2007): 223-251. [A&HCI] 

Yan, Shu-chuan. “Mapping Knowledge and Power: Cartographic Representations of Empire in Victorian Britain.” EurAmerica 37.1 (2007): 1-34.  [TSSCI]

Yan, Shu-chuan. “Voyages and Visions: Imag(in)ing the Arctic in the Victorian Periodical, 1850s-1870s.” NTU Studies in Language and Literature 16 (2006): 53-81.  [THCI]

Yan, Shu-chuan. “‘Far Away in Mysterious Darkness of Distance’: Science, Travel, and Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters: An Every-Day Story.” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 32.1 (2006): 259-281.  [A&HCI]

Yan, Shu-chuan. “Geography and Working-Class Women in Mary Barton and Sylvia's Lovers.” The Gaskell Society Journal 16 (2002): 76-84.  [JSTOR]

Book Chapters

Yan, Shu-chuan. “Pernicious Literacy and Working-Class Education in My Lady Ludlow.” Evil and Its Variations in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell: Sesquicentennial Essays. Ed. Mitsuharu Matsuoka. Osaka: Osaka Kyoiku Tosho, 2015. 265-79.

Yan, Shu-chuan. "Visual Representations of Women, Home and Nation in Punch, 1841-1901." An Interpretative Turn: Essays on Cultural Expressions of Art and Literature in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Eds. H. H. Yuan and S. F. Lai. Taipei: Bookman, 2010. 115-142.

Conference Papers

Yan, Shu-chuan. 2021. “Spatiality and Materiality: The Cozy Corner Craze at the Fin de Siècle.” The Annual PCA-ACA Conference (virtual).

Yan, Shu-chuan. 2019. “The Body and the Interior: Women and Household Furniture at the Fin de Siècle.” The 49th Annual PCA-ACA Conference. Washington DC, USA.

Yan, Shu-chuan. 2018. “Architecture and the Victorian Literary Imagination.” The Literary Interface: 2018 Australian Literary Studies Convention. Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Yan, Shu-chuan. 2016. “Adolescent Girls and Home Décor in The Girl’s Own Paper.” North American Victorian Studies Association—Social Victorians. Phoenix, USA.

Yan, Shu-chuan. 2016. “A Room of Her Own: Girls and Bedroom Décor in The Girl’s Own Paper.” The British Association of Victorian Studies annual conference—“Consuming (the) Victorians.” Cardiff University, UK.

Yan, Shu-chuan. 2015. “Secrecy, Deformity and Illegitimacy in Dinah Mulock Craik’s Olive.” 23rd Annual English and American Literature Association Conference: “Secrets.” National Cheng-Kung University.

Yan, Shu-chuan. 2015. “The Life and Death of Melbourne Punch in Colonial Australia.” The 47 annual conference of Research Society for Victorian Periodicals—Life and Death in the 19th Century Press. The University of Ghent. Belgium.

Yan, Shu-chuan. 2014. “Victorian Sensations and Working-Class Readers.” 22nd Annual English and American Literature Association Conference: “Literature and Emotions.” National Chengchi University.

Yan, Shu-chuan. 2013. “‘So Many “Hands,” Not Heads or Hearts’: Domestic Servants and Eliza Cook’s Journal.” The Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada—Victorian Humanity and its Others. Vancouver, Canada.

Yan, Shu-chuan. 2013. “‘So Many “Hands,” Not Heads or Hearts’: Domestic Servants and Eliza Cook’s Journal.” The Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada—Victorian Humanity and its Others. Vancouver, Canada.

Yan, Shu-chuan. 2012. “A People’s Poet: Chartism, Industrial Labor, and Eliza Cook.” Australasian Victorian Studies Association—Victorian Vocabularies. Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.

Yan, Shu-chuan. 2010. "Tailoring the Freaks of Fashion: Women, Crinolines, and Material Culture in Punch Magazine." The 42 annual conference of Research Society for Victorian Periodicals-The Material Cultures of Periodicals. Yale University, USA.

Yan, Shu-chuan. 2009. "Fashion, Consumption, and the Female Body in Punch Magazine 1850s-1860s." Top University Program: 2010 International Conference-"Femininity, Consumption, History and Memories." National Cheng-Chi University

 Yan, Shu-chuan. 2009. "Fashion, Nation, and Punch Magazine 1840s-1880s." The 41 annual conference of Research Society for Victorian Periodicals-Victorian Networks & the Periodical Press. University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, USA.

 Yan, Shu-chuan. 2009. "From Verbal Construct to Visual Language: A Multimedia Experience of Teaching Poetry." International Symposium on Teaching Literature in the Age of Global English. Fooyin University.

Yan, Shu-chuan. 2008. "Rule Britannia: Gender, Nation, and Punch Magazine 1850-1880." 2008 International Conference: Perspectives on Migration, Nationhood, and Ethnicity. NSYSU.

 Yan, Shu-chuan. 2008. "Britannia in Caricature: (Dis)-Embodying the Nation in Punch 1850-1880." Research Society for Victorian Periodicals/40th Annual Conference-Characters of the Press. Roehampton University, London, UK.

 Yan, Shu-chuan. 2007. "Picturing Victorian Women: Gender, Imperial Landscape, and Punch Magazine 1841-1901." 15th Annual English and American Literature Association Conference: "Landscape and Literature." Chiayi.

 Yan, Shu-chuan. 2006. "Voyages and Visions: Imag(in)ing the Arctic in the Victorian Periodical, 1850s-1870s." 14th Annual English and American Literature Association Conference: "Revisiting the 19th Century: The World, the Body, the Text." Tainan.

Yan, Shu-chuan. 2006. "Fact or Myth? Locating Other Creatures in the Victorian Novel." Seventh Annual Conference of British Association of Victorian Studies-Victorian Cultures in Conflict. The University of Liverpool, UK.

 Yan, Shu-chuan. 2005. "'Off the Map': Cartographic Representations of the Imperial Frontier in Victorian Novels." Australasian Victorian Studies Association-Victorians and the Other. The University of Auckland, New Zealand.

 Yan, Shu-chuan. 2004. "Traversing Terra Incognita: Cartographic Fantasies and Exotic Sensations in Victorian Novels." Fifth Annual Conference of British Association of Victorian Studies-Victorian Sensations. Keele University, UK.

Yan, Shu-chuan. 2004. "Frontiers of the Imagination: Mapping Elizabeth Gaskell and the British Empire." The Twelfth Annual British Women Writers Conference-Location, Location, Location: Textual Spaces and Places. The University of Georgia, USA.

Yan, Shu-chuan. 2004. "Breaking the Silence: Mapping Elizabeth Gaskell and the Colonial Other." 11th Annual English and American Literature Association Conference: "Representing the Unspeakable." Kaohsiung.

Yan, Shu-chuan. 2002. "Gender, Geography and Elizabeth Gaskell." The Tenth Annual British Women Writers Conference-Evolving Domains of Knowledge and Representation. University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

Yan, Shu-chuan. 2002. "The Geography of Desire: Mapping Elizabeth Gaskell and Sexual Exoticism." Australasian Victorian Studies Association-The Erotic Empire: Sexuality, Gender & Power in Britain & Beyond Conference. Adelaide University, Australia.