EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, University of Southern California
• M.A. in Comparative Literature, University of Southern California
• M.A. in English, State University of New York at Buffalo
• B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literature, National Chung Cheng University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica (2018 - )
• Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica (2014 - 18)
• Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Sun Yat-sen University (2013 - 14)
• Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Sun Yat-sen University (2007 - 2013)
• Assistant Lecturer, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Feng Chia University (2007)
• Assistant Lecturer, The Writing Program, University of Southern California (2004 - 05)

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• environmental literature and culture (U.S., Taiwan, and Japan); ecocriticism
• agricultural literature and environmentalism (organic farming; food studies; eco-spirituality; urban studies )
• medical-environmental humanities (organic living; mindfulness; healing)

ACADEMIC SERVICE

• Editorial Board. Plant Perspectives: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2022 - )
• Advisory Board. Critical Plant Studies (book series of Rowman & Littlefield)(2022 - )
• Editorial Board. Food Ethics (2022 - )
• Editorial Board. Journal of Ecohumanism (2021 - )
• Editorial Board. Tamkang Review (2021 - )
• Editorial Board. EurAmerica: A Journal of European and American Studies (2018 - 2019)
• Editorial Board. Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies (2015 - 2019)
• Executive Committee. Association for the Study of Literature and Environment-Taiwan (2019 - 2021, 2009 - 2011)
• Secretary General. Association for the Study of Literature and Environment-Taiwan (2011 - 2013)

AWARDS AND GRANTS

• Significant Research Achievements of Academia Sinica (2015, 2017, 2018)
• Teaching Excellence Award, College of Liberal Arts, National Sun Yat-sen University (2011)
• Teaching Excellence Award, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Sun Yat-sen University (2010)
• Awards for Paper Excellence, National Sun Yat-sen University (2009, 2013, 2014)
• Final Year Dissertation Fellowship, University of Southern California (2005 - 06)
• Phi Beta Kappa International Graduate Student Award, Southern California (2005)
• Teaching Assistantships, University of Southern California (1999 - 2005)

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles

1. Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena. “Chinatown and Beyond: Ava Chin, Urban Foraging, and a New American Cityscape.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment  25.1 (Winter 2018): 5-24.
2. Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena. “‘An Accidental Porn Star’: David Mas Masumoto, Food Pornography, and the Politics of the Food Movement.” Tamkang Review  48.1 (Dec. 2017): 1-17. ew 12 (Aug. 2019). Japanese translation by Atsuko Mizuno included in Transpacific Ecocriticism: Narrating Ocean and Echoing Words. Eds. Shoko Itoh, Tomoko Ichitani, Kyoko Matsunaga. 2019. 79-92.
3. Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena. “The Good Food Revolution: Will Allen and the African American Urban Farming Tradition.” Review of English and American Literature  31 (Dec. 2017): 97-114. (In Mandarin)(Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena. “The Good Food Revolution: Will Allen and the African American Urban Farming Tradition.” Diving into Nature: Ecocriticism and Literature in the Anthropocene. Ed. Iping Liang. Taipei: Bookman, 2023. 139-164.)
4. Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena. “Back to the City: Urban Agriculture and the Reimagining of Agrarianism in Novella Carpenter’s Farm City.” Neohelicon  44.2 (Dec. 2017): 403-15.
5. Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena. “Agrarianism in the City: Urban Agriculture and the Anthropocene Futurity.” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies  43.1 (March 2017): 51-69.
6. Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena. “Claiming the Sacred: Indigenous Knowledge, Spiritual Ecology, and the Emergence of Eco-cosmopolitanism.” Cultura: International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology  12.1 (June 2015): 71-84.
7. Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena. “Wu’s The Man with the Compound Eyes and the Worlding of Environmental Literature.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture  16.4 (Dec. 2014): Article 3.
8. Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena. “In Search of a Biotic Community and an Ecocentric Self: Rachel Carson, Deep Ecology, and the Organic Metaphor.” COWRIE: A Journal of Comparative Literature and Culture  2014.2 (Dec. 2014): 59-94.
9. Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena. “The Secret of Shangri-La: Agricultural Travels and the Rise of Organic Farming Discourse.” Comparative Literature Studies  50.1 (Mar. 2013): 108-19. 
10. Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena. “Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams: Organicism and the Relocation of the Wild.” Foreign Literature Studies  35.1 (Feb. 2013): 24-34. 
11. Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena. “Working with Nature: David Masumoto and Organic Farming Discourse.” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies  35.2 (Sept. 2009): 337-54. 
12. Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena. “Pruning the Past, Shaping the Future: David Mas Masumoto and Organic Nothingness.” MELUS:  Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States  34.2 (Summer 2009): 157-74. 

Book Chapters

1. Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena. “Afterword: Re-worlding as Hope in the Anthropocene.” Geo-Spatiality in Asian and Oceanic Literature and Culture: Worlding Asia in the Anthropocene. Eds. Shiuhhuah Serena Chou, Soyoung Kim, and Rob Wilson. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
2. Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena. “Cultivating Nature.” Cambridge Critical Concepts: Nature and Literary Studies. Eds. Peter Remien and Scott Slovic. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2022.
3. Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena. “The Wild Hunt: Urban Foraging and the Alternative Food Movement.”  Ecocriticism in Taiwan: Identities, Environment, and the Arts.  Ed. Chia-ju Chang and Scott Slovic.  Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016.  133-41.
4. 周序樺。〈有無相生：美國有機農業論述與農業倫理〉。《生態文學概論》。蔡振興 (編)。台北：書林，2013。頁 221-39。
5. Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena. “Sense of Wilderness, Sense of Time: Mingyi Wu’s Nature Writing and the Aesthetics of Change.”  East Asian Ecocriticisms: A Critical Reader.  Ed. Simon C. Estok and  Won-Chung Kim.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.  145-63. 中文翻譯請參閱〈荒野情、時間性：吳明益的自然書寫與變的環境美學〉
6. Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena. “Elegy for Yellow Butterfly Valley: The Myth of Dam Construction vs. Chung T’ie-min’s Reclamation of Hakka Heritage in Meinung, Taiwan.” An Interpretive Turn: Essays on Cultural Expressions of Art and Literature in the 19th and 20th Centuries.  Ed. Heh-Hsiang Yuan and  Shu-Fang Lai.  Taipei: Bookman, 2010.  225-47.

Edited Volumes

1. Slovic, Scott, and Shiuhhuah Serena Chou, eds. Arboreal Ecocriticism. Special issue of Lagoonscapes: The Venice Journal of Environmental Humanities 2.2 (December 2022).
2. Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena, Soyoung Kim, and Rob Wilson, eds. Geo-spatiality in Asian and Oceanic Literature and Culture: Worlding Asia in the Anthropocene. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
3. Chou, Shiuhhuah, ed. Sinophone Literature and The Environmental Humanities. Special issue of Tamkang Review 51.2 (June 2021).
4. 孫紹誼、周序樺編。《由文入藝：中西跨文化書寫──張錯教授榮退紀念文集》。台北：書林，2017。
5. Estok, Simon C., and Shiuhhuah Serena Chou, eds. The City and the Anthropocene. Special issue of Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 43.1 (March 2017).
6. Tsai, Robin Chen-hsing, Shiuhhuah Serena Chou, and Guy Redmer, eds.  Key Readings in Ecocriticism.  Taipei: Bookman, 2015.

Other Publications

1. Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena and Norman Wirzba. “Agrarianism, Spirituality, and the Ecopoetics of Hope: A Conversation in Taiwan with Norman Wirzba.” Review of English and American Literature, 42 (June 2023). Chinese translation included in Re-Reading Religion, 2023.
2. Slovic, Scott, and Shiuhhuah Serena Chou. “Introduction.” Arboreal Ecocriticism, special issue of Lagoonscapes: The Venice Journal of Environmental Humanities, 2.2: 183-188 (December 2022).
3. Chou, Shiuhhuah. “Guest Editor’s Note: Towards a Worlding of Sinophone Literature and Environmental Humanities.” Sinophone Literature and Environmental Humanities, special issue of Tamkang Review, 51.2: i-iv (June 2021).
4. Chou, Shiuhhuah (trans.) Sau-ling Cynthia Wong. “Kingston’s Handling of Traditional Chinese Sources.” Essays on Chinese American and Sinophone Diasporic Literature. Ed. Te-Hsing Shan. Taipei: Asian Culture, 2020. 151-170.
5. Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena. “Ieas Seminary and the Politics of Hope.” EALA E-Newsletter, Summer 2020: 19-30.
6. Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena. “A Book Review on Chen-hsing Tsai’s Ecological Crisis and Literary Studies.” Review of English and American Literature, 34 (Jun. 2019) :119-23.
7. Estok, Simon C., and Shiuhhuah Serena Chou.  “Foreword: The City and the Anthropocene.”  Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 43.1 (March 2017): 3-11.
8. Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena. “An Introduction to William Cronon’s ‘The Trouble with Wilderness; Or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature.’”  Key Readings in Ecocriticism.  Ed. Robin Chen-hsing Tsai, Shiuhhuah Serena Chou, and Guy Redmer.  Taipei: Bookman, 2015.  93-94.

Research Projects

1. Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena. Ecological Conversion: Mindfulness Eco-Poetics and American Environmentalism (NSTC 113-2410-H-001-016-MY3).
2. Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena. Revisiting American Organic Literary and Agricultural Environmentalism (MOST-111-2410-H-001-099-MY2).
3. Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena. Diseeases, Well-being and the Environment: Research and Social Practices of Medical Humanities (co-investigators; MOST-111-2423-H-A49-002).
4. Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena.  Organic Mindfulness in the U.S.: Cultivating Well-being, Reverence, and Social Engagement (Project for Excellent Junior Research Investigators, MOST-108-2628-H-001-001-MY3).
5. Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena.  Worlding Asia: Asian/Oceanic/Planetary Convergences  (MOST Add-on Grant for International Cooperation).
6. Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena.  American Organic Agriculture and the 1970s Counterculture  (MOST-106-2410-H-001-022-MY2). 
7. Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena.  Natural Order: Early American Organic Agriculture Writing  (MOST-103-2410-H-001-101-MY3).  
8. Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena.  Annie Proulx’s Western Fiction: The Construction of Place through Farming and Landscape  (NSC-101-2410-H-001-110-MY2).
9. Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena.  Weeds are Us?: Japanese American Agrarianism and Agriculture Writing Revisited  (NSC-99-2410-H-018-MY2).
10. Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena.  Farmers of Forty Centuries: F. H. King’s Organic Farming Writing  (NSC-98-2410-H-110-063).
     

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