Joyce C. H. Liu

Joyce Chi-Hui Liu is Professor of Critical Theory, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.

Liu obtained a bachelor's degree in English literature in 1978 from Fu Jen Catholic University.

She moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign for graduate study in comparative literature, earning a master's degree in 1980 and a Ph.D. in 1984.

Liu's works concentrate on the question of aesthetics, ethics, and politics, ranging from Marx, Freud and Lacan, to contemporary critical theories as well as Chinese political thoughts.

She has been a critic of East-Asian modernity and internal coloniality, particularly through re-reading the Chinese intellectual history of the twentieth century and the contemporary political-economy in inter-Asian societies.

After Liu's graduation, she became Associate Professor in English Department of Fu Jen Catholic University between 1984 and 1994.

In 1988, she became the chair of the department.

In 1994, she became the director of Graduate Institute of Comparative Literature in Fu Jen Catholic University.

Since 1994, she became a professor of Graduate Institute of Comparative Literature.

She once served as the president of Cultural Studies Association in Taiwan.

In 2001, Liu transferred to Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures in National Chiao Tung University and served as a professor.

She's also the director of Center for Emergent Cultural Studies, National Chiao Tung University between 2001 and 2006.

Liu is the Chair of the Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies that she founded in 2002.

She is also the director of the International Center for Cultural Studies of the University System of Taiwan.

She is currently the Chair of the Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies that she founded in 2002.

She is also the director of the International Center for Cultural Studies of the University System of Taiwan.

In 2002, she founded Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies in National Chiao Tung University and became the director and professor of it until 2004.

She restarted as the director of Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies twice between 2008 and 2011 and between 2013 and 2019.

Between 2011 and 2017, Liu was chief editor of Wenhua Yanjiu (Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies).

She served as the chief editor of the only journal of cultural studies in Taiwan, Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies, from 2012–2107.

She's also the director of International Institute for Cultural Studies (ICCS-NCTU & UST), National Chiao Tung University & University System of Taiwan since 2012.

Besides, she's the director of International Graduate Institute for Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, University System of Taiwan since 2013.

Among her publications, the representative works are the three co-edited volumes: East-Asian Marxisms and their Trajectories (Routledge 2017), European-East Asian Borders in Translation (Routledge 2014), Biopolitics, Ethics and Subjectivation (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2011); and the influential trilogy that she authored: The Topology of Psyche: The Post-1895 Reconfiguration of Ethics (2011), The Perverted Heart: The Psychic Forms of Modernity (2004), as well as Orphan, Goddess, and the Writing of the Negative: The Performance of Our Symptoms (2000).

Liu is now a Chair Professor in Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies (SRCS-NCTU), National Chiao Tung University since 2019.