Faculty Profile
Basic Information
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Name: Lee Wei Yao Title：Associate Professor Email：spencerli@kmu.edu.tw Extension：2259#308 |
Education
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Graduating School
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Major |
Degree |
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National Taiwan Normal University |
Department of English (Literature) |
Ph.D |
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National Taiwan University |
Department of Foreign Languages and Literature (Literature) |
M.A. |
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Soochow University |
Department of English Language and Literature |
B.A. |
Experience
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Director, Learning Outcomes Section, Bilingual Education Promotion Resource Center, Kaohsiung Medical University (2024/08-Present) |
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Director, Strategic Planning Section, Bilingual Education Promotion Resource Center, Kaohsiung Medical University (2022/08-2024/07) |
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Director, Teaching Section, General Education Center, Kaohsiung Medical University (2019/08-2020/07) |
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Chair, Department of Applied English, Kaohsiung Campus, Shih Chien University (2014/08-2018/07) |
Specialties
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Specialties |
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British Romanticism |
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English Proficiency Testing |
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News English |
Projects
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Project Name |
Duration |
Project Number |
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Literary and Economic Standards in Edinburgh Review |
2024/08/01~ 2025/07/31 |
NSTC113-2410-H-037-002 (NSTC Project) |
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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) |
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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) |
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National Narrative in Coleridge’s Lay Sermons |
2017/08/01~ 2018/07/31 |
106-2410-H-158-002- (NSTC Project) |
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William Wordsworth and the Tradition of the Ode |
2013/08/01~ 2014/08/31 |
102-2410-H-158-012- (NSTC Project) |
Theses and Books
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Ph.D. Dissertation: “William Wordsworth’s Aesthetics of Body: the Picturesque, the Sublime, and the Beautiful.” (2009) |
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M. A. Thesis: “Shakespeare’s Inset Plays: Semiological Studies of Henry IV, Part One, Hamlet, and A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream.” (2001) |
Academic Journal Articles
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“Sympathy and Calumny in Coleridge’s Lay Sermons,” Review of English and American Literature, No. 44 (June 2024), 147-184. (THCI The First Degree) |
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“Biblical (In)Sufficiency in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Statesman’s Manual,” Review of English and American Literature, No. 41 (June 2022), 125-160. (THCI The First Degree) |
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“Materiality and Its Transcendence in Wordsworth’s ‘The Ruined Cottage’.” Texts, Contexts, and Networks in Romantic and Victorian Literature 2022. 118-139. |
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“Coleridge's Politics of Enlightened Understanding.” Ex-position 2021(46:2). 55-82. (THCI The First Degree) |
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“The Victory Ode and National Narrative: William Wordsworth’s ‘Thanksgiving Ode’.” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 42:2 (Sept. 2016). 169-194. (AHCI) |
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“Healing the Nation with Nature: William Wordsworth’s ‘Vernal Ode.’” Chung Hsing Journal of Humanities 57 (Sept. 2016). 1-22. |
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“Father, Teacher, Criminal: Historical and Generic Reading of William Wordsworth’s Two-Part Prelude.” Languages and International Studies 14 (Sept. 2015). 95-108. |
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“The Transformation of Picturesque Aesthetics in William Wordsworth’s ‘Tintern Abbey.’ Journal of Tzu Chi College of Technology No. 1 (Sept. 2015), 1-18. |
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“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 24 (March 2015). 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), 93-114. (THCI Core) |
Honors and Awards
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Outstanding Mentor, Academic Year 2022 |
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Outstanding Mentor of KMU Academy, Academic Year 2020 |
Academic Services
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Guest Lecturer, Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages, “My Experience of EMI Teaching” (2023.10.4) |
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Guest Lecturer, National Tainan Junior College of Nursing, “My EMI Teaching Experiences (2023.2.8) |
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Guest Lecturer, Taipei Medical University, “EMI Course Instruction” (2022.5.25) |
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Contract Interpreter, Kaohsiung Branch, Taiwan High Court Prosecutors Office (2017/10-2021/09) |