Technology, Posthumanism, Theory: An Interview with Chaoyang Liao

Technology, Posthumanism, Theory: An Interview with Chaoyang Liao

Chaoyang Liao is Professor Emeritus at National Taiwan University. He received his PhD degree in East Asian Studies from Princeton University in 1987, and he was on the faculty of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Na-tional Taiwan University until 2019 when he retired. He was the president of the Comparative Literature Association of the Republic of China (Taiwan) from 2012 to 2014 and the founding president of the Taiwan Humanities Society from 2012 to 2014. He has offered courses on many theoretical topics in the MA and PhD programs of his department, enriching Taiwan’s theory studies by introducing cut-ting-edge discourses and problematics. His career made him a significant incuba-tor and mentor for many younger scholars. His main research interests include Buddhist thought, literary theory, psychoanalysis, media and technology, science fiction, game studies, and translation theory. He has also written extensively on fiction and cinematic works from Taiwan and elsewhere.