TSAI Tsung-han

Affiliation

Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences

Official title

Assistant Professor

ORCID

Email

Research fields


Literature in English
Aesthetics and studies on art

Research keywords


Twentieth-Century Literature
Literature and Music
E. M. Forster
Global Modernisms

Research projects


Chopin in Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage: Politics, Time, Genre	2022-07 -- 2023-06	Tsung-Han Tsai	NSTC, Taiwan/

Career history


2012-09 -- 2014-12	University of St Andrews
2020-09 -- 2023-07	National Kaohsiung Normal University
2023-08 -- (current)	University of Tsukuba

Academic background


2002-09 -- 2006-06	National Taiwan University Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
2008-09 -- 2009-08	King's College London Department of English
2009-09 -- 2013-12	University of St Andrews School of English

Degree


2014-06	PhD	University of St Andrews

Academic societies


-- (current)	English and American Literature Association, Taiwan
-- (current)	British Association of Modernist Studies
-- (current)	Modernist Studies in Asia Network
-- (current)	International E. M. Forster Society

Honors & Awards


2023-08	Ta-You Wu Memorial Award

Articles

Music as Queering in E. M. Forster’s Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
Tsai Tsung-han
Music & Letters/99(1)/pp.1-15, 2018
“Worse than irritated—namely, insecure”: Forster at Bayreuth
Tsai Tsung-han
Forum for Modern Language Studies/50(4)/pp.466-481, 2014-9

Books

E. M. Forster and Music
Tsai Tsung-han
Cambridge University Press, 2021-05
Introduction: Maurice through Time
Tsai Tsung-han
Twenty-First-Century Readings of E. M. Forster's 'Maurice'/Liverpool University Press/pp.1-21, 2020-05
Twenty-First-Century Readings of E. M. Forster's 'Maurice'
Tsai Tsung-han
Twenty-First-Century Readings of E. M. Forster's 'Maurice'/Liverpool University Press, 2020-05
The “Appassionata” Sonata in A Diary for Timothy
Tsai Tsung-han
Soundings: Documentary Film and the Listening Experience/University of Huddersfield Press, 2018-07

Conference, etc.

The Presence of “Black” Singing in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage
TSAI Tsung-han
Ephemeral Modernisms (the 2024 British Association of Modernist Studies conference)/2024-06-27--2024-06-29
Which India? Whose Passage? The New Translation of A Passage to India in Taiwan
TSAI Tsung-han
A Passage to India – Centenary Revaluations/2024-06-24--2024-06-26
Microfascism in Classrooms? The Case of Teaching Literatures in English in Higher Education
TSAI Tsung-han
2024 CLAROC Conference ‘Microfascisms’/2024-06-01
A Passage to India in Taiwan: Translation, Politics, Modernisms
TSAI Tsung-han
Uses of Modernism/2023-09-20
Care in Franz Kafka’s Die Verwandlung: Choice, Responsibility, Ethics
Tsai Tsung-han
Mapping Care: Imaginations, Pratices, and Theories/2023-10-14
Dorothy Richardson and the Reception of Chopin
Tsai Tsung-han
Sounding Modernism/2023-06-22--2023-06-23
“He keeps people alive”: War, Medical Ethics, and Crime in E. M. Forster’s “Dr Woolacott”
Tsai Tsung-han
Captivating Criminality 9: Intersections of Crime and Gothic/2023-03-02--2023-03-04
“As if in answer”: Music as Queer Hospitality in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage
Tsai Tsung-han
2022 EALA International Conference/2022-10-29--2022-10-29
Revisiting Gregor’s Family in Franz Kafka’s Die Verwandlung, or shall we be happy for them in the end?
Tsai Tsung-han
Hopeful Modernisms/2022-06-23--2022-06-25
The Many Olive Fremstads in Twentieth-Century Auto/biografiction
Tsai Tsung-han
Acoustic Text/2021-10-02--2021-10-02
“A movement of return”: Music and the Art of Retrospection in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage
Tsai Tsung-han
Modernism and Multiple Temperalities/2019-09-12--2019-09-14
“If career it can be called”: Forster’s Resistance to Wildean Fame
Tsai Tsung-han
Queer Celebrity/2019-06-06--2019-06-07
“Music that was now tingling to her fingertips”: Music as Queer Flirtations in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage,
Tsai Tsung-han
Queer Modernism iii/2019-04-25--2019-04-26
Forster as Music Critic
Tsai Tsung-han
End Games and Emotions. The Sense of Ending in Modern Literature and Art/2017-08-15--2017-08-18
“Face him defiantly, with no repressing awe”: Music in Rosalind Murray’s The Leading Note
Tsai Tsung-han
Modernist Life/2017-06-29--2017-07-01
The “Appassionata” Sonata in A Diary for Timothy
Tsai Tsung-han
Sound and Music in Documentary Film/2017-02-23--2017-02-24
Dentistry and the Body of the Woman Professional in John Steinbeck’s The Wayward Bus
Tsai Tsung-han
Modernist Work/2016-03-29--2016-03-31
Risley in Maurice: Forster, Wilde, Tchaikovsky
Tsai Tsung-han
Aestheticism and Decadence in the Age of Modernism: 1895 to 1945/2015-04-17--2015-04-18
“And perhaps it only could be done through music”: The Role of Music in E. M. Forster’s Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
Tsai Tsung-han
Modernist Musics and Political Aesthetics/2015-04-08--2015-04-10
The Enchanted and the Mundane: “The Celestial Omnibus” and its Afterlife
Tsai Tsung-han
Enchanted Edwardians/2015-03-30--2015-03-31

Teaching


2024-04 -- 2024-07	Studies in Anglophone Culture (1A)	University of Tsukuba.
2024-04 -- 2024-07	English for Specific Purposes I-A	University of Tsukuba.
2024-10 -- 2024-12	Anglo-American Studies V	University of Tsukuba.
2024-09 -- 2024-09	English for Specific Purposes II-3	University of Tsukuba.
2024-10 -- 2025-02	Seminar in Literature Research B	University of Tsukuba.
2024-04 -- 2024-07	Seminar in Planning a Graduation Thesis: Anglo-American and European Atudies I	University of Tsukuba.
2024-04 -- 2024-07	Gender Studies: Special Topic	University of Tsukuba.
2024-10 -- 2024-12	Studies in Anglophone Culture (1B)	University of Tsukuba.
2024-04 -- 2024-08	Seminar in Literature Research A	University of Tsukuba.
2024-04 -- 2024-07	Anglo-American Studies IV	University of Tsukuba.
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Other educational activities


2022-12 -- 2022-12	Continuing Education: Student Recruitment	National Kaohsiung Normal University
2011-09 -- 2011-09	How to Conduct Archival Research: Speaker	University of St Andrews

Talks

The Availability of E. M. Forster’s Maurice: Aspects, Approaches, Afterlives
TSAI Tsung-han
Invited Lecture organized by the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University/2024-08-21

Professional activities


2023-06 -- (current)	International Journal of English Studies	Manuscript reviewer for the International Journal of English Studies
2018-06 -- 2020-02	Forster 2020 Conference	Advisory Board Member
2012-04 -- 2012-11	E. M. Forster's Maurice: A Centenary Conference	Conference Organizer

(Last updated: 2024-09-02)