Associate Professor
Research Interests
18th- and 19th-century British literature ♦ Historical Fiction ♦ Postcolonial Theory ♦ Long Eighteenth-Century British Painting and Visual Culture
Education
Ph.D., English Literature •University of Glasgow, UK
M.A., English • University of York, UK
B.A., English • National Central University, Taiwan
Academic Positions
| 2025.08 ~ present | Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan |
| 2024.02 ~ 2025.07 | Associate Professor (joint appointment), Language Teaching and Research Center, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University |
| 2022.02 ~ 2025.07 | Associate Professor, Institute of Visual Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan |
| 2021.08 ~ 2022.01 | Associate Professor (joint appointment), Institute of Visual Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan |
| 2021.02 ~ 2022.01 | Associate Professor, Education Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan |
| 2018.02 ~ 2021.01 | Assistant Professor, Education Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan |
| 2017.02 ~ 2018.01 | Project Assistant Professor, Education Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan |
Awards
HONORS & AWARDS
Awarded the Jack Medal by the International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures (IASSL), 2026.
Outstanding Faculty Member for Research and Teaching, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, NYCU.
Academic Year 2025 (August 1, 2025 – July 31, 2027)
Academic Year 2023 (August 1, 2023 – July 31, 2025)
Academic Year 2021 (August 1, 2021 – July 31, 2023)
Key Research Article, National Yang Ming University, September 2020.
Article: “Walter Scott’s First Chinese Critic — Mao Dun” (Selected for Q2 2020).Incentive Grant for Recruiting and Retaining Exceptional Academic Talent (Rank A), Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan, February 2018 – January 2020.
TEACHING EXCELLENCE
Excellent Teaching Award (Certificate of Merit), College of Medicine, NYCU.
June 2025
May 2022
June 2021
Distinguished Teaching Award, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, NYMU, September 2020.
Excellent Teaching Award (Liuli Glass Trophy), College of Medicine, NYMU, July 2020.
Excellent Teaching Award (Certificate of Merit), College of Medicine, NYMU.
May 2019
April 2018
Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Chiu, Kang-yen. “Resistance to accommodation: The Highland Clearances in Iain Crichton Smith’s Consider the Lilies.” Scottish Literary Review (A&HCI) 17.2 (2025): 145-165.
Chiu, Kang-yen. “Travelling into the Other: The Imperial Gaze and Highland Resistance in Scott’s Rob Roy.” Sun Yat-sen Journal of Humanities (THCI) 59 (2025)：3-27。
邱剛彥。〈從蘇格蘭高地清地論述探究十八世紀進步史觀之言說：《蘇格蘭高地的悲傷記憶》與《異國他鄉的陽光記憶》的論戰〉。《英美文學評論》(THCI) 42 (2023年6月)：187-215.
邱剛彥。〈從小兒麻痺症以及《回憶錄》抉發司各特的生命內涵〉。《文山評論：文學與文化》(THCI) 14:2 (2021年6月)：241-274。
Chiu, Kang-yen. “Reading Ivanhoe in Midnight: Scott and the Rise of Modern Chinese Fiction.” Scottish Literary Review (A&HCI) 12.2 (2020): 1-17.
邱剛彥。〈司各特《蓋伊‧曼爾寧》與高地清地運動：從吉普賽人的遭遇對照蘇格蘭高地人的苦難哀歌〉。《中外文學》(THCI) 49.3（2020年9月）：211-233。
Chiu, Kang-yen. “Walter Scott’s First Chinese Critic — Mao Dun.” Scottish Literary Review (A&HCI) 12.1 (2020): 19-34.
Chiu, Kang-yen and Coinneach Maclean. “Gaelic Scotland and Tourism: A Postcolonial Perspective?” Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig (Gaelic Research) 7 (2020): 194-209.
Chiu, Kang-yen. “Walter Scott and Hospitality: Theory and Practice.” Scottish Literary Review (A&HCI) 11.1 (2019): 9-26.
邱剛彥。〈帝國的儲藏室：司各特的中國相關書寫、收藏及閱讀〉。《文山評論：文學與文化》(THCI) 11.1（2017年12月）：89-113。
BOOK CHAPTERS
Chiu, Kang-yen. ““Drifting down the Stream of a Deep and Smooth River”: Translation and Film Adaptation of Ivanhoe in the Modern History of Taiwan.” Scotland and China: Literary Encounters. Ed. Li Li and John Corbett. Leiden: Brill, 2025. 174-196
邱剛彥。〈「進步」的辯證：以英國詹姆斯黨人1745年起義為主題的歷史小說探析〉。邱剛彥、黃柏源編。《浩蕩英華：長十八世紀的英國文藝與歷史》。台北市：時報文化，2023。
Chiu, Kang-yen. “Walter Scott’s Writing, Collecting and Reading China.” Trade and Tribute: China and Global Modernity, 1784-1935. Ed. William Christie, Angela Dunstan and Qingsheng Tong. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2020. 205-224. ISBN: 9781743326008.
Chiu, Kang-yen. “Reading the Subaltern in the Waverley Novels.” Bonds and Borders: Identity, Imagination and Transformation in Literature. Ed. Rebecca DeWald and Dorette Sobolewski. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. 9-18. ISBN: 1443829536.
Chiu, Kang-yen. “Orientalism, Hospitality and Empire in The Talisman.” Founder to Shore: Cross-currents in Irish and Scottish Studies. Ed. Shane Alcobia-Murphy, Lindsay Milligan and Dan Wall. Aberdeen: AHRC [Arts & Humanities Research Council] Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, 2010. 55-64. ISBN: 9781906108151.
EDITED WORKS
邱剛彥、黃柏源編。《浩蕩英華：長十八世紀的英國文藝與歷史》。台北市：時報文化，2023。
Chiu, Kang-yen. “Foreword.” Chiu, Kang-yen and Murray Pittock, eds, ‘Sir Walter Scott: His Worlds and Legacies, A Special Issue Dedicated to the 200th Anniversary of the Publication of Ivanhoe’, The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture (THCI), Special Issue, 13:2 (June 2020), pp. i-iv. 客座主編《文山評論：文學與文化》紀念司各特《撒克遜英雄傳》出版二百周年特刊第13期第2部（2020年6月）。
Chiu, Kang-yen and Murray Pittock, eds, ‘Sir Walter Scott: His Worlds and Legacies, A Special Issue Dedicated to the 200th Anniversary of the Publication of Ivanhoe’, The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture (THCI), Special Issue, 13:2 (June 2020) 客座主編《文山評論：文學與文化》紀念司各特《撒克遜英雄傳》出版二百周年特刊第13期第2部（2020年6月）。
Chiu, Kang-yen and Murray Pittock, eds, ‘Sir Walter Scott: His Worlds and Legacies, A Special Issue Dedicated to the 200th Anniversary of the Publication of Ivanhoe’, The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture (THCI), Special Issue, 13:1 (December 2019) 客座主編《文山評論：文學與文化》紀念司各特《撒克遜英雄傳》出版二百周年特刊第13期第1部（2019年12月）。
BOOK REVIEW
Chiu, Kang-yen. Review of Walter Scott, Marmion (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018) for The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture (THCI), 13:2 (June 2020): 207-210.
Chiu, Kang-yen. Review of Weixin Wang, A History of the Scottish Novel (Beijing: Beijing Commercial Press, 2017) for Scottish Literary Review (A&HCI) 10:2 (2018), 131-33. ISSN: 1756-5634
Chiu, Kang-yen. Review of Elizabeth A. Bohls, Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013) for BARS (British Association for Romantic Studies) Review, 46 (2015), 14-16. ISSN: 0964-2447
Chiu, Kang-yen. Review of Walter Scott, Introduction and Notes from the Magnum Opus: Waverley to a Legend of the Wars of Montrose (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012) and Introduction and Notes from the Magnum Opus: Ivanhoe to Castle Dangerous (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012) for BARS (British Association for Romantic Studies) Review, 44 (2014), 27-28. ISSN: 0964-2447
Chiu, Kang-yen. Review of Richard Hill, Picturing Scotland through the Waverley Novels: Walter Scott and the Origins of the Victorian Illustrated Novel (Surrey: Ashgate, 2010) for BARS (British Association for Romantic Studies) Bulletin and Review, 41 (2012), 38-39. ISSN: 0964-2447
Chiu, Kang-yen. Review of Walter Scott, The Talisman and The Betrothed, Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009) for BARS (British Association for Romantic Studies) Bulletin and Review, 39 (2011), 29-30. ISSN: 0964-2447
Chiu, Kang-yen. Review of Walter Scott, The Shorter Fiction, Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009) for BARS (British Association for Romantic Studies) Bulletin and Review, 37 (2010), 44-45. ISSN: 0964-2447
OTHER PUBLICATION
邱剛彥。〈歐洲歷史小說之父司各特與《撒克遜英雄傳》出版二百週年〉《聯合文學》。2020年8月號，頁46-49。
RESEARCH PROJECTS ＆ GRANTS
Funding Agency: National Science and Technology Council (Taiwan)
Project Title: Je Suis Prest: The Afterlife of Jacobitism and the Study of the Portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie (General Research Project)
Project Number: 113-2410-H-A49-014-MY2
Duration: August 1, 2024 – July 31, 2026
Funding Agency: Ministry of Science and Technology (Taiwan)
Project Title: Reflecting upon the Notion of “Progress”: A Study of the Historical Writing and Twentieth-Century Literature on the Scottish Highland Clearances from the Postcolonial Perspective (Outstanding Young Scholar Research Grant)
Project Number: MOST 111-2628-H-A49-002-MY2
Duration: August 1, 2022 – July 31, 2024
Funding Agency: Ministry of Science and Technology (Taiwan)
Project Title: Dialectics of Progress: A Cross-cultural Study of the Representation of the 1745 Jacobite Uprising in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Historical Novels (General Research Project)
Project Number: MOST 110-2410-H-A49A-507-
Duration: August 1, 2021 – July 31, 2022
Funding Agency: Ministry of Science and Technology (Taiwan)
Project Title: Writing as the Soul’s Cure: An Investigation of Walter Scott’s Writing and His Illness from the Perspectives of Medical Humanities (General Research Project)
Project Number: MOST 109-2410-H-010-007-
Duration: August 1, 2020 – July 31, 2021
Funding Agency: Ministry of Science and Technology (Taiwan)
Project Title: Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the Publication of Ivanhoe — A Study of Sir Walter Scott and China (Research Project for Scholarly Monograph Writing)
Project Number: MOST 107-2410-H-010-002-MY2
Duration: August 1, 2018 – July 31, 2020 (Extended to July 31, 2021)
Funding Agency: Ministry of Science and Technology (Taiwan)
Project Title: The Criticism and Reception of Walter Scott in the May Fourth Era ― Mao Dun as an Exemplar (Research Project for New Recruits)
Project Number: MOST 106-2410-H-010-019-
Duration: November 1, 2017 – October 31, 2018
Funding Agency: Ministry of Science and Technology (Taiwan)
Project Title: MOST Grant for Attending the 2nd World Congress of Scottish Literatures: Dialogues and Diasporas (Vancouver, Canada)
Project Number: 106-2914-I-010-003-A1
Duration: June 21 – 25, 2017
Courses
Postgraduate Courses:
Travel Writing and the Empire, 1700-1900
Social History and Sociology of Visual Cultures
The Theory and Practice of Adaptation: From Novel to Film
Imperial Eyes: British Painting in the Long Eighteenth Century
Art History Written on the Margins: Scottish Enlightenment Aesthetics, Paintings, and Society
The King’s New Clothes: Variations of British Royal Portraiture since the Sixteenth Century
Disability Aesthetics: The Suffering Body, Society, and British Visual Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century
Undergraduate Courses:
English Literature (1)
British Historical Novel
British Romantic Poetry
Introduction to the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Disability and the Body in Long Eighteenth-Century British Literature