Name: Lee Wei Yao

Title：Professor

Email：spencerli@kmu.edu.tw

Extension：2259#308

Specialties

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British Romanticism 

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English Proficiency Testing

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News English

Project Name

Duration

Project Number

1

Literary and Economic Standards in Edinburgh Review

2024/08/01~

2025/07/31

NSTC113-2410-H-037-002 (NSTC Project)

2.

From Natural Genius to Commodity Fetishism: Coleridge and Hazlitt’s Shakespeare Criticism

2023/08/01~

2024/07/31

NSTC112-2410-H-037-004 (NSTC Project)

3

Apologetics and the Publishing Market: Coleridge’s Lay Sermons, Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit and Aid to Reflection

2022/08/01~

2023/07/31

MOST111-2410-H-037-029 (NSTC Project)

4

National Narrative in Coleridge’s Lay Sermons

2017/08/01~

2018/07/31

106-2410-H-158-002-

(NSTC Project)

5

William Wordsworth and the Tradition of the Ode

2013/08/01~

2014/08/31

102-2410-H-158-012-

(NSTC Project)

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Ph.D. Dissertation: “William Wordsworth’s Aesthetics of Body: the Picturesque, the Sublime, and the Beautiful.” (2009)

2

M. A. Thesis: “Shakespeare’s Inset Plays: Semiological Studies of Henry IV, Part One, Hamlet, and A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream.” (2001)

1

“From Genius to Cultural Capital: Coleridge’s and Hazlitt’s Criticism of Shakespeare.” Review of English and American Literature, no. 47, Dec. 2025, pp. 51-87. (THCI The First Degree).

2

“From Philadelphia to Long Island: William Cobbett’s American Writings.” Sun Yat-Sen Journal of Humanities, no. 59, Jul. 2025, pp. 29-54. (THCI The Second Degree)

3

“Sympathy and Calumny in Coleridge’s Lay Sermons,” Review of English and American Literature, no. 44, Jun. 2024, pp. 147-184. (THCI The First Degree)

4

“Biblical (In)Sufficiency in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Statesman’s Manual,” Review of English and American Literature, no. 41, Jun. 2022, pp. 125-160. (THCI The First Degree)

5

“Materiality and Its Transcendence in Wordsworth’s ‘The Ruined Cottage’.” Texts, Contexts, and Networks in Romantic and Victorian Literature, edited by Shu-Chuan Yan, Bookman Books, 2022, pp. 118-139.

6

“Coleridge’s Politics of Enlightened Understanding.” Ex-position, vol. 46, no. 2, Dec. 2021, pp.

55-82. (THCI The First Degree)

7

“The Victory Ode and National Narrative: William Wordsworth’s ‘Thanksgiving Ode’.”  Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, vol. 42, no. 2, Sept. 2016, pp. 169-194. (AHCI)

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“Healing the Nation with Nature: William Wordsworth’s ‘Vernal Ode.’” Chung Hsing Journal of Humanities no. 57, Sept. 2016, pp. 1-22. 

9

“Father, Teacher, Criminal: Historical and Generic Reading of William Wordsworth’s Two-Part Prelude.” Languages and International Studies no. 14, Sept. 2015, pp. 95-108.

10

“The Transformation of Picturesque Aesthetics in William Wordsworth’s ‘Tintern Abbey.’ Journal of Tzu Chi College of Technology, no. 1, Sept. 2015, pp. 1-18.

11

“Forgetting the Bold Promise of the Past: William Wordsworth’s Politicized Sublime

    in The Prelude, the French Book.” Journal of Tzu Chi College of Technology, no. 24, Mar.

2015, pp. 171-195.

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"Reinterpretation of the Imagination: William Wordsworth’s 'Unfathered Vapour.” Review of English and American Literature, no. 23, Dec. 2013, pp. 93-114. (THCI Core)

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Outstanding Mentor, Academic Year 2022

2

Outstanding Mentor of KMU Academy, Academic Year 2020 

1

Guest Lecturer, Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages, “My Experience of EMI Teaching” (2023.10.4)

2

Guest Lecturer, National Tainan Junior College of Nursing, “My EMI Teaching Experiences (2023.2.8)

3

Guest Lecturer, Taipei Medical University, “EMI Course Instruction” (2022.5.25)

4

Contract Interpreter, Kaohsiung Branch, Taiwan High Court Prosecutors Office (2017/10-2021/09)