Shu-mei Shih | |||||||||
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| 史書美 | |||||||||
| Born | 1 April 1961 South Korea | ||||||||
| Education | National Taiwan Normal University University of California, San Diego University of California, Los Angeles | ||||||||
| Alma mater | University of California, San Diego | ||||||||
| Era | Contemporary philosophy 21st century philosophy | ||||||||
| Region | Western philosophy | ||||||||
| Institutions | University of California, Los Angeles National Taiwan Normal University | ||||||||
| Thesis | Expressionism, cubism, impressionism, and the novels of William Faulkner (1985) | ||||||||
| Language | English, Chinese, Korean | ||||||||
Main interests | Sinophone studies, comparative literature, transnationalism, Taiwan studies, postcolonial studies, critical race theory | ||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 史書美 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 史书美 | ||||||||
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Shu-mei Shih (simplified Chinese: 史书美; traditional Chinese: 史書美; pinyin: Shǐ Shūměi; born April 1, 1961) is a Korean-born Taiwanese American scholar and literary theorist. She is a Professor of Comparative Literature, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Asian American Studies at University of California, Los Angeles and was the president of the American Comparative Literature Association from 2021 to 2022.[1] In 2018, she was also appointed as Honorary Chair Professor of Taiwan Languages, Literature and Culture at National Taiwan Normal University and is the current director of the UCLA-NTNU Taiwan Studies Initiative of the UCLA Asia Pacific Center.[2][3]