Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang

Updated on May 9, 2021

Dr. Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang is a professor in the Department of Asian Studies and the Program in Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her B.A. from National Taiwan University, M.A. from the University of Michigan, and Ph.D. from Stanford University. She has also taught or visited at National Taiwan University, University of Kansas, National Tsing Hua University, Fu Jen Catholic University, National Cheng Kung University, Xiamen University, and the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy at Academia Sinica.

Dr. Chang is the author of Literary Culture in Taiwan: Martial Law to Market Law (Columbia University Press, 2004) and Modernism and the Nativist Resistance: Contemporary Chinese Fiction from Taiwan (Duke University Press, 1993), and a co-editor of The Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan (Columbia University Press, 2014) and Bamboo Shoots After the Rain: Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of Taiwan (Feminist Press, 1990). Her books published in the Chinese language include現代主義 ‧ 當代台灣 (Modernism/Contemporary Taiwan，2015)，当代台湾文学场域 (Literary Field in Contemporary Taiwan，2015), and 文學場域的變遷：當代台灣小說論 (Transformations of A Literary Field: On Contemporary Taiwan Fiction, 2001). Dr. Chang’s articles have appeared in journals, edited volumes, and anthologies in English and Chinese.

Dr. Chang was the President of the Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature (ACCL) in 1999-2000 and has served on a dozen editorial boards and held offices in scholarly organizations. She is currently the Director of the Center for Taiwan Studies at UT-Austin.