2008 ELLAK International Conference Program
Theme: “Re-visioning English Studies in Asia”
The English Language and Literature Association of Korea
International Conference
November 20-22, 2008
November 20 (Thursday)
13:00-14:00 Registration (Basement Floor [BF] Lobby)
14:00-16:00 Panel Session I (7 Sessions incl. Foreign Sessions 1&2: BF Seminar Rooms)
16:00-16:20 Break
16:20-18:20 Panel Session II (7 Sessions incl. Foreign Sessions 3&4: BF Seminar Rooms)
18:20-19:30 Supper (Main Floor [MF] Korean Restaurant)
19:30-21:30 Panel Session III (7 Sessions: BF Seminar Rooms)
November 21 (Friday)
07:30-08:30 Breakfast (MF Korean Restaurant)
09:00-11:00 Panel Session IV (7 Sessions incl. Foreign Sessions 5&6: BF Seminar Rooms)
11:00-11:20 Break
11:20-12:10 Plenary Lecture (BF Seminar Room)
Prof. Gauri Viswanathan (Columbia University)
12:10-13:30 Lunch (MF Korean Restaurant)
12:10-13:30 ELLAK Board Meeting
13:30-15:30 Panel Session V (7 Sessions incl. Foreign Sessions 7&8: BF Seminar Rooms)
15:30-15:50 Break
15:50-17:50 Plenary Session: “English Education in East Asia” (BF Seminar Room)
Prof. Masako Iino (Tsuda College)
Prof. Shouren Wang (Nanjing University)
Prof. Young-Oak Lee (Sungkyunkwan University)
18:00-20:30 Reception & Dinner (BF Crystal Ball Room)
November 22 (Saturday)
07:30-08:30 Breakfast (MF Korean Restaurant)
08:40-10:30 Panel Session VI (7 Sessions incl. Foreign Sessions 9&10: BF Seminar Rooms)
10:30-10:40 Break
10:40-12:30 Panel Session VII (7 Sessions incl. Foreign Sessions 11&12)
Special Session (BF Seminar Room)
12:30-13:30 Lunch (MF Korean Restaurant)
13:30-15:20 Panel Session VIII (7 Sessions: BF Seminar Rooms)
15:20-15:30 Break
15:30-17:20 Panel Session IX (7 Sessions: BF Seminar Rooms)
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Thursday, November 20
13:00–14:00 Registration
14:00–16:00 Panel Session I
Foreign Session 1: Reconstructing Asian Classroom
- Chng Huang Hoon (National University of Singapore, Singapore), “Silent or Silenced:
Technological Interventions in a Singaporean Classroom”
- Ingrid M. Hoofd (National University of Singapore, Singapore), “Ethics, Ethnics, and
Pedagogy: On Teaching Ethics in a Multicultural Classroom”
- Anowarul Islam (University of Chittagong, Bangladesh), “Rethinking Colonial Efficacy:
English Education and Cultural Reconstruction in Colonial Bengal (1854-1947)”
Foreign Session 2: New Perspectives on Twentieth-Century Literature
- Hsiu-chih Tsai (National Taiwan University, Taiwan), “The Journey Home: The Blurring of
the Chinese Coolies in Conrad’s Typhoon”
- Eva Chen (National Cheng-Chi University, Taiwan), “The New Woman and Fin de Siecle
Urban Commodity Culture in Some Turn-of-the-Century London Novels”
- Luisa Torres Reyes (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines), “The Crisis of Modernism
in the Philippine Literary and Critical Canon”
- Pao-I Hwang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan), “A Garden of Many-Coloured Flowers:
The Nipped Bud of Transnationalism in Wu Zhuo-liu’s Orphan of Asia”
16:00–16:20 Break
16:20–18:20 Panel Session II
Foreign Session 3: Visions of Authenticity in the Re-visioning of English
- Lim Lee Ching (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), “Voices of Inauthenticity:
Singaporean-ness and English in the Poetry of Alfian Sa’at and Cyril Wong”
- Neil Murphy (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), “Contemporary Singapore
Poetry and the Spectre of Authenticity”
- Jeremy Fernando (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), “The Spectre of
Singapore in Singapore Cinema”
- Eunsun Cho (Yonsei University, Korea), “Korean-American Director Gina Kim and
Diasporic Filmmaking”
Foreign Session 4: Theory
- Jim O'Sullivan (Dongguk University, Korea), “Allegory as a Method for Teaching
English Literature in Asia”
- Simon C. Estok (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea), “The Unattended Call:
Theorizing Ecocriticism”
- Yi-Chuang Elizabeth Lin (University of Durham, UK), “What Is in a Name: Postmodern
Deconstruction versus Ancient Taoist Philosophy”
- Youngmin Kim (Dongguk University, Korea), “Theory and Cross-Cultural Poetries”
18:20–19:30 Supper
19:30–21:30 Panel Session III (7 Sessions)
Friday, November 21
07:30–08:30 Breakfast
09:00–11:00 Panel Session IV
Foreign Session 5: Asian Literature in English
- Lalaine F. Yanilla Aquino (University of the Philippines, Philippines), “When the Asian Girl
Speaks: A Comparative Analysis of Two Young Adult Novels in English Written by Asian Women”
- Melissa Karmen Lam (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong), “Verbal Anxieties
and English Affirmations in Chang-Rae Lee and Yiyun Li”
- Dooho Shin (Kangwon National University, Korea), “Hybridity and Cultural Identity
in Postcolonial Asian Literature: Catherine Lim’s Following the Wrong God Home”
- Sim Wai Chew (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), “On S. Sionil Jose”
Foreign Session 6: Paradigm Shift I: Transnational Native American Studies
in Taiwan
Chair: Rose Juan-li Juan (National Chung-Hsin University, Taiwan)
- Hsinya Huang (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan), “Crossing Boundaries,
Claiming Places: Transnational Native American Studies in Taiwan”
- Yueh-Chen Chang (National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan), “Translating
Magic Realism, Echoing Indigenous Voices: A Cross-Cultural Reading and Teaching of James Welch in Taiwan”
- Ying-wen Yu (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan), “Teaching Gerald Vizenor
in Taiwan”
- Iping Liang (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan), “Native Americans Studies and
Empire Studies: Teaching N. Scott Momaday in Taiwan”
11:00–11:20 Break
11:20–12:10 Plenary Lecture
Gauri Viswanathan (Columbia University, USA), “From Belief to Imagination in
Literary History: Literature and Secularism”
12:10–13:30 Lunch
13:30–15:30 Panel Session V
Foreign Session 7: Rethinking Cultures of Post/Colonial Globalization
in Asia/Africa
- Setsuko Adachi and Michael Kearney (Kogakuin University, Japan),
“Forging Global Hodological Maps for the Meta-Symbolic Order”
- Eli Park Sorensen (Kyung Hee University, Korea), “Imperial Nostalgia and the Detective
Genre: Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans”
- Murari Prasad (D. S. College, India), “Representing India in English”
- Gaurav Gajanan Desai (Tulane University, USA), “Re-Orientations: Asia, Africa and the
Cultures of Globalization”
Foreign Session 8: Paradigm Shift II: English and U.S. Literary and
Cultural Studies in Taiwan
Chair: Wen-ching Ho (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
- Joan Chiung-huei Chang (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan), “Seeking Peace
through a View of the Wars: Teaching Asian American Literatures in Taiwan”
- Chung-Hsiung Lai (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan), “Teaching Literary Theory in
Taiwan”
- Kai-ling Liu (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan), “Teaching ‘Women Writers’ in
Taiwan”
- Sandie Yi-jou Lo (Wenzao Ursuline Institute of Languages, Taiwan), “Mapping Native
Americans: ‘The Way to Rainy Mountain’ as an Example”
15:30–15:50 Break
15:50–17:50 Plenary Session on English Education in East Asia
Masako Iino (Tsuda College, Japan), “English Education and Women’s Status in Japan in
the Meiji Period: Ume Tsuda and Her Dream”
Shouren Wang (Nanjing University, China), “English Education in Present-Day China”
Young-Oak Lee (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea), “English Literature Teaching in Korea”
18:00–20:30 Reception & Dinner
Saturday, November 22
07:30–08:30 Breakfast
08:40–10:30 Panel Session VI
Foreign Session 9: Rereading Colonial/Postcolonial Literature (Graduate Session)
- Yi-chin Shih (National Chengchi University, Taiwan), “India/Asia is within Themselves:
Traveler and Foreigner in A Passage to India”
- Sung Hee Yook (The City University of NY, USA), “Melancholic Ambivalence in Theresa
Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee”-
- Junghye Sung (Ewha Womans University, Korea), “Cosmopolitan Body in Salman Rushdie’s
The Satanic Verses”
Foreign Session 10: Teaching and Pedagogy (Graduate Session)
- Wang Nan (Beijing Normal University, China), “On Subject-Centered Teaching of Poetry:
A Study of Showalter’s Theory of Teaching Literature”
- Sonia Sharmin (Stamford University, Bangladesh), “Pedagogical Value of Contemporary
Subcontinental Literature in Language Class / Teaching Language”
- Asantha U. Attanayake (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India), “ESL/EFL Policies at the
National/State Level in Sri Lanka”
10:30–10:40 Break
10:40-12:30 Panel Session VII
Foreign Session 11: English Education in Asia
- Cecilia H. C. Liu (Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan), “Teaching Literature in English:
Englishization and Globalization in Current Taiwan”
- Brian M. Bomediano (Nagoya University, Japan), “English Industry/Colonial Industry:
Racist Discrimination and the Asian Desire for English”
- Xavier Lin (National Chi Nan University, Taiwan), “A Case of Teaching English Poetry:
The Role and Pitfalls of Translation for Pedagogical Purposes”
- Eunhee Han (Korea Nazarene University, Korea), “The Final Draft is Not the End”
Foreign Session 12: Theater/Film
- Tsu-Chung Su (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan), “The Occidental Theatre and Its
Double: The Use and Abuse of the Oriental Theatre in Antonin Artaud”
- Pao-Hsiang Wang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan), “From Reticence to Resonance:
Taming Shakespeare into a Hakka Musical in Taiwan”
- Hao Tianhu (Peking University, China), “John Evans, Humphrey Moseley and Canon
Formation in Hesperides, or the Muses’ Garden”
- Ken-fang Lee (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan), ““Men are from Mars, Women
are from Venus”: Representation of Women in Taiwan’s Self-help Bestsellers”