Department of Politics and International Studies
Dr Ti-Han Chang
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Key information
- Roles
- Department of Politics and International Studies Senior Teaching Fellow in Taiwan Studies
- Building
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office
- P364
- Email address
- tc61@soas.ac.uk
Biography
Ti-han Chang is the Deputy Director of the Centre of Taiwan Studies and a Senior Teaching Fellow in Taiwan Studies at SOAS University of London.
Her teaching and research centre on contemporary Taiwan, with particular interests in eco-literature, postcolonial literature, cinema and cultural studies in regional and global contexts.
At SOAS, Ti-Han convenes the modules: Culture and Society of Taiwan, New Taiwan Cinema and Beyond, and Taiwan’s International and Cross-Strait Relations, and she also co-teaches on Taiwan and International Politics. Before joining SOAS, she was Lecturer in Asia Pacific Studies at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan).
Her research lies at the intersection of literature, cinema, and politics in Taiwan, with a particular focus on eco-literature and its implications in the Pacific and global context. She is especially interested in postcolonial ecocriticism and its connections to themes such as nonhuman agency, borders, identity politics, climate change, and migration. Beyond her literary and cultural work, she also engages with broader debates in Taiwan studies, including traditional Indigenous knowledge, gender equality issues, and environmental sustainability.
Alongside her teaching and research, Ti-Han plays an active role in the Taiwan Studies community. She currently serves as General Secretary for the European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS), and has previously served as Treasurer for the Francophone Association of Taiwan Studies (AFET). She has co-edited several scholarly works and translation anthologies on Taiwan’s literature, identity, and cultural politics.
Key publications
- Isle of the Austronesian: Indigeneity, World-Making and Taiwan (Balestier Press, 2025)
- Reorientating Taiwan: Ocean, Selfhood and the Pacific (Brill, 2025)
- A Transdisciplinary Study of Global Mobilities: Identities on the Move (Springer, 2024)
Research interests
- Contemporary Taiwan literature, cinema, and cultural politics.
- Postcolonial ecocriticism and eco-literature in Taiwan and the Pacific.
- Indigenous literature, knowledge, and activism.
- Migration, displacement, and identity politics in the Asia Pacific.
- Environmental humanities, climate change, and sustainability.
