Research Projects

    2012.08-2014.07, “Critical Discourses of the Postcolonial Cyborg: On Spivak and Haraway.” Humanities and Social Sciences Books Writing Project, Ministry of Science and Technology.

    2009.08-2010.07, “A Sociological Study of Donna Haraway.” Research Project, Ministry of Science and Technology.

    2008.08-2009.07, “A Sociological Study of Gayatri Spivak's Postcolonial Theory.” Research Project, Ministry of Science and Technology.

Journal Papers

   Chuang, Chun-Mei Chuang. 2024.09. “Affective Politics of Magnetism: A Trans-species Reflection on Theoretical Affect.” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, 50.2 (September 2024): 91-113.

   Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2023. "Diffractive Mattering: On the Multiple Temporalities of Immunological Memory." Chung Wai Literary Quarterly，52(4): 17-53. (in Mandarin Chinese)

   Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2023. "Planetary Memory and Trans-species Immunity", en Bajo Palabra, Revista de Filosofía,  ÉPOCA Nº II. Nº 32, Año 2023, pp. 185-202.

   Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2022. "The Diffractive Politics of Postcolonial Cyborg Translation." Symploke 30(1): 47-64. [https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/885930.]

   Chuang, Chun-Mei,  2021. “Weber and Ostwald: Reimagining Energetic Sociology.” Social Analysis 19: 75-103. (in Mandarin Chinese)

   Chuang, Chun-Mei, 2021.  “Symbiosis and Critique: A Molecular Feminist Exploration.” Chung Wai Literary Quarterly 50(3): 17-54. (in Mandarin Chinese)

   Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2020. “A Politics of Multiplicity in the Anthropocene.”  Chung Wai Literary Quarterly 49(1): 7-11. (in Mandarin Chinese)

   Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2020. “Feminism in the Anthropocene: Standpoints, Places and Practices.” Chung Wai Literary Quarterly 49(1): 13-60. (in Mandarin Chinese)

   Chuang,Chun-Mei, 2019.12, “Embodied Molecular Translation: My Not-So-Personal Experience of Translating Spivak and Haraway.” philoSOPHIA 9(2): 129-131.

   Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2018. ”Writing The Postcolonial Cyborg: Survival, Boundaries and Responsibilities.” Humanities and Social Sciences Newsletter 20(1): 212-216. (in Mandarin Chinese)

   Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2018. "Performative Agency in the Anthropocene.” Journal of Social Theory 21(2): 361–378. (in Mandarin Chinese)

   Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2017. “Hannah Arendt’s Politics of Ecology.” Journal of Social Theory 21(1): 93–110. (in Mandarin Chinese)

   Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2016. “On Historical Agency: Indigenous Standpoints and the Critical Politics of Performativity.” The Taiwanese Journal of Sociology 61: 185-221. (in Mandarin Chinese)

   Chuang, Chun-Mei.  2016. “Living Like a “Human Being”: Between Enlightenment and Difference.” Journal of Gender Equity Education 76: 129-134. (in Mandarin Chinese) 

   Chuang, Chun-Mei.  2016. “Living Like an Animal.” Reflexion 30: 83:91. (in Mandarin Chinese)

   Chuang, Chun-Mei.  2013. “Academic Politics and Survival Strategies: Review on Ya-Chen Chen's the Many Dimensions of Chinese Feminism (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)” Research on Women in Modern Chinese History. 22: 185-189. (in Mandarin Chinese)

  Chuang, Chun-Mei.  2013. “An Interspecific Review on We Have Never Been Modern.” Social Analysis 6: 145-152. (in Mandarin Chinese)

  Chuang, Chun-Mei.  2009. “The Feminine Situation and the Subject qua Void: Rethinking Taiwan's Postcolonial Discourse.” Cultural Studies Quarterly 9: 5-44。 (in Mandarin Chinese)

  Chuang, Chun-Mei.  2007. “Women' "Place" and “Ethics”— on the (Im) Possibility of a "Global Feminism”.” Research on Women in Modern Chinese History 15: 163-193. (in Mandarin Chinese) 

  Chuang, Chun-Mei.  2007. “To Memorize a Future: The Hegelian Alphabetic Prejudice and the Artificial Evolution of Chinese Script in the Early Twentieth Century.” Cultural Studies Quarterl 4: 85-134. (in Mandarin Chinese)

  Chuang, Chun-Mei.  2006. “The Translation and Construction of Shi-Jie — Several Cosmopolitanisms in the Discursive Field of Westernization in Early Twentieth Century China.” Soochow Journal of Sociology 20: 59-108. (in Mandarin Chinese)

  Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2005. “Derrida, Lu-Xun, Benjamin: The Molecular Translation and the Construction of Chinese Linguistic Modernity.” Soochow Journal of Sociology 19: 57-100. (in Mandarin Chinese)

Monographs

  Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2023. The Postcolonial Anthropocene: Performative Politics of Life. Taipei: Socio Publishing.  (In Mandarin Chinese)

  Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2016. The Postcolonial Cyborg: A Critical Reading of Donna Haraway and Gayatri Spivak. Taipei: Socio Publishing.  (in Mandarin Chinese)

  Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2012. The Postcolonial Feminine Situation: Language, Translation and Desire. Taipei: Socio Publishing. (in Mandarin Chinese)

Chapters

  Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2023. "Planetary Memory and Diffractive Immunity." In Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo and Slavoj Žižek (Eds.), Psychoanalysis Between Philosophy and Politics (pp.244-265). Split: LOOK Publications.

  Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2021. “Trans-species Diffraction.” In Beyond Apocalypse: Plague, Globalization, and the Anthropocene, edited by Sebastian Hsien-hao Liao,  153-178. Taipei: National Taiwan University Press. (in Mandarin Chinese)

  Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2019. “Molecular Translation.” In Keywords of Taiwan Theory, edited by Shun-Mei Shih, Chia-ling Mei, Chaoyang Liao, and Dung-sheng Chen, 21-34. Taipei: Linking Publishing Company. (in Mandarin Chinese)      

Conference Papers

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2024.11. “The Planetary Unconscious: Deconstructing the Elegance and Terror of Gaia.” The 2024 Taiwan Sociological Association Annual Conference “Resilience and Sustainability: Unbiding Sociological Debates and Boundaries.” Chung Shan Medical University. November 23-24, 2024

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2024.10. “Filtering of Attention: Molecular Negotiation over Territorial Receptors.” The 32nd Annual Conference of the English and American Literature Association “Filter.” National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu City, Taiwan. 

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2024.09. “Reconfiguring Mechanosphere: Planetary Technics of Multiplicity, Life and Spirituality.” The 10th “Deleuze Studies in Asia” Conference “Technology and Life.” National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan. 

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2024.07. “Decolonial Rhizome Politics: Transversal Molecular Archipelagic Thinking.” The “Decolonization, Sociology and Taiwan Society” Workshop. Institute of Social Sciences, Academia Sinica. 25, 26 July 2024. 

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2024.06. "Dangerous Spirituality: Microfascism and Planetary Becomings." The 46th CLAROC National Convention: Ｍicrofascism. 1 June 2024. National Taipei University of Technology: GIS Taipei Tech Convention Center. 

Chuang, Chun-Mei Chuang. 2023.11. “Transversal Symbiogenesis: Imaging a Nonlinear Future for Postcoloniality.” “The More-than-human Histories” International Conference. National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.

Chuang, Chun-Mei.  2023.10. "Love is a Molecular Island." Geopolitics & Literature: Reimagining The Past, Present, & Future 3 – 4 October 2023. Deleuze Special Section, Universitas Sanata Dharma, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2023.09. “Viroids: The cosmic nomad molecules of naked life.” Taiwan Science, Technology and. Society Association Annual Conference. 2-3, September. Taiwan Contemporary Cultural Lab. 2 September 2023.

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2023.06.  Affective Politics of Magnetism: Bacteria, Gaia, and Cosmic Molecules. The 45th CLAROC National Convention: Reboot. 17 June 2023. The Institute of Taiwan Literature at NTU. (in Mandarin Chinese)

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2023. 06. “Symbiogenesis as a Nonlinear Future for Postcoloniality.” 2023 International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs Conference “Theorizing Global Authoritarianism: To Reclaim Critical Theory Against the Grain.” Kyung Hee University, Seoul.

Chuang, Chun-Mei, 2022.06. “Memory and Time: Diffractive Politics of Immunity.” The 44th CLAROC National Convention: Speed Shambles. 15 June 2022. Online. (in Mandarin Chinese)

Chuang, Chun-Mei, 2022.06. “Politics of Plastisphere: The Plastic Biogeochemical Cycles Between The Visible and The Invisible” June 17, “Entangled Waterscapes in Asia” Seminar at ACLA Annual Meeting, June 16-18, 2022, Online.

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2022. 03, “Politics of Trans-species Diffraction.” ASDP 29th National Conference: Asia and the Anthropocene: Visions of Being Human in a More-than-Human World, 3-5 March 2022, Hilton San Diego Gaslamp Quarter. (Partial Online)

Chun-Mei Chuang. 2021.11. “Sociability of Viruses.” 2021 Taiwanese Sociological Association Annual Meeting: Diversity Thinking: Transdisciplinarity and Sociology. 28. November 2021. Waishuangxi Campus, Soochow University, Taipei.(in Mandarin Chinese)

Chun-Mei Chuang. 2021.11. “Reconfigure the Rhizome: Microbial Sensibility and Virocellular Politics.” The Fifth DGSIC International Conference. 14. November 2021. Online.

Chun-Mei Chuang. 2021.10. “Politics of Molecular Feminism: A Multispecies Postcolonial Perspective (Toward a planetary molecular feminism).” Gendering Transformations: Feminist Knowledge Production and Trans/national Activist Engagement. 28. October 2021. Online.

Chun-Mei Chuang. 2021.10. Apoptosis: Micro-boundary Wars. 2021 Taiwanese Feminist Scholars Association Annual Meeting: ”Asia, Gender, Non-Human Rights.” 02. October 2021. Online. (in Mandarin Chinese)

Chun-Mei Chuang. 2021.07. Life and Techne of Gaia。AI workshop of Soochow University, Taipei. 30. July 2021. Online. (in Mandarin Chinese)

Chun-Mei Chuang. 2021.06. “Diffractive Politics of Immunity.” The 9th International Conference of Deleuze and Guattari Studies in Asia. 06. June 2021. Online.

Chun-Mei Chuang.2021.06. “Reimagine Life in the Virocene” 。 The 43rd CLAROC National Convention: Reimagining Green. 04. June 2021. Online. (in Mandarin Chinese)

Chun-Mei Chuang. 2021.05. “Thinking about Plastisphere.” Asia Theories Network online workshop 2021 “Oceanic Capitalism.” 30. May 2021. Online.

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2020.12. “Weber and Ostwald: Reimagining Energetic Sociology.” Weber's Centennial Symposium: A Dialogue between Weber's Theory and the 21st Century 。 05. December 2020. International Conference Hall, Waishuangxi Campus, Soochow University, Taipei. (in Mandarin Chinese)

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2020.09. "Embodied Scale: Affective Politics of Gaia” 2020 Annual meeting and Conference of Taiwanese Feminist Scholars Association: Plague, Border Politics and the Taiwan Community.  National Chengchi University. (in Mandarin Chinese)

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2020.09. “Symbiosis and Critique: A Molecular Feminist Exploration.” The 42nd CLAROC National Convention 2020: Micro-relation. 19. September 2020.
Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica. (in Mandarin Chinese)

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2020.09. “Trans-species Diffraction.” 2020 Keywords of Taiwan Theory Conference. 08. September 2020. Conference Room, College of Liberal Arts, National Taiwan University. (in Mandarin Chinese)

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2019.12. "Gaia, Sensitivity and A Multispecies Future.” Asia Theories Network, “UnpredictableWeather.” Tokyo University. 12-14, December 2019.

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2019.09. “Vulnerability of Sex: a Molecular Perspective.” 2019 Annual Meeting and Conference of Taiwanese Feminist Scholars Association: Vulnerability and Agency. National Cheng Kung University. (in Mandarin Chinese). 

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2019.06., “The Non-linear Ecology of Memory and Time in “Blade Runner 2049” and “Arrival”  The 41st Comparative Literature International Conference: Medical Humanities in the New Millennium. National Chiao Tung University. 

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2019. 05. “A Postcolonial Anthropocene: Which human? What human?” “Global Fascism, Colonial Biopolitics, and American Empire” Asia Theories Network International Symposium May 24-26, 2019 at Seoul National University, Korea.

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2019.03. “The Posthuman Unconscious:  Rethinking Our Planetary Cognitive System.” The 8th International Conference on the Dialogue Between Sociology and Psychology: Human Interactions and Relationships in the Digital Age. Department of Social Psychology, Shih-Hsin University. (in Mandarin Chinese)

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2019.03. “The Nonhuman Becoming of Human Identity: Towards a Posthuman Perspective of Local Identity.” The Twentieth Annual International Conference of Cultural Studies Association: The Rise of the Rest. National Chiao Tung University. (in Mandarin Chinese)

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2018.11. “Distributed Cognition in Art and Theory.” “Souths of Asia: Aesthetics, Theory, Archive” International Workshop. November 23‐25, 2018, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. 

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2018.10. “Postcolonial Politics in the Anthropocene: History, Evolution and Temporalities.” The 45th Anniversary Celebration, Department of Sociology, Soochow University. International Conference on Social Theory. Soochow University, Taipei. (in Mandarin Chinese)

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2018.09. Violence and Performativity of Love: Search, Stop and Perhaps.” 2018 Annual meeting and Conference of Taiwanese Feminist Scholars Association: Philogyny and Misogyny.  National Chengchi University. (in Mandarin Chinese)

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2018.03. “Ecological Feminist Critique in the Anthropocene.” The Annual Conference of Cultural Studies Association: Cultures Among Us. National Taiwan University. (in Mandarin Chinese)

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2017. 11. “Educational Activism and Performative Agency.”  2017 Annual Conference of Taiwanese Sociological Association: Sociofluenza. Fu-Jen University.  (in Mandarin Chinese)

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2017. 10. “Performative Agency in the Anthropocene.” 2017 Cross-strait Conference for Sociological Theory and Cultural Study in Beijing. Beijing University.  (in Mandarin Chinese)

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2017. 10. “Toward a Critical Theory of Molecular Translation.” 2017 Asia Theories Network’s International Workshop: Global and Singular Asias: Theory and Practice, National Taiwan University.

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2017. 09. “Deconstructing Gender: Boundary Crossing and Politics of Alliance.”  2017 Annual meeting and Conference of Taiwanese Feminist Scholars Association: Space and Womb. Soochow University, Taipei. (in Mandarin Chinese)

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2017.03. “Towards an Ecological Conception of Society.” The Annual Conference of Cultural Studies Association: Struggle, Alliance, Action. Tamkang University. (in Mandarin Chinese)

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2016. 11.  “Embodied Freedom.” 2016 Annual Conference of Taiwanese Sociological Association. National Dong Hwa University. (in Mandarin Chinese)

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2015. 11. ”Critical Historical Agency: Standpoints and Performative Politics of Taiwan’s History Curriculum Framework Debate.” The Annual Conference of Cultural Studies Association: Sociological Imagination and Alternative Futures. National Sun Yat-sen University. (in Mandarin Chinese)

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2015. 10. “The Postcolonial Cyborg: on Molecular Cultural　Translation.” 2015 Asia Theories international symposium Waiting: Theory/Time/Action in Global Asia, organized by Taiwan Humanities Society and University of California Humanities Research Institute. National Chung Hsing University,

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2014. 11. “Towards a Cross-Boundary Local Life: World Governmentality, Popular Sovereignty, and Boundary Negotiation.” 2014  Annual Conference of Taiwanese Sociological Association: Uncharted Sociology. National Tsing Hua University. (in Mandarin Chinese)

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2013. 11. “Critical Discourses of the Postcolonial Cyborg: On Spivak and Haraway.” 2013  Annual Conference of Taiwanese Sociological Association: Sociological Imagination and Alternative Futures. National Chengchi university. (in Mandarin Chinese)

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2012. 11. “The Trope and Emergence of Newness: A Cross-boundary perspective.” 2012 Annual Conference of Taiwanese Sociological Association. Tunghai University. (in Mandarin Chinese)

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2010. 12. “Cyborg and Superorganism: Organic Disjunction and Suture of the Postcolonial Society.” 2010 Annual Conference of Taiwanese Sociological Association. Fu-Jen University.  (in Mandarin Chinese)

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2010. 05. “Revisit the Organismic Metaphor in Sociological Theory.” The Production, Legacy and Invention of Sociological Theoretical Knowledge. National Chengchi university. (in Mandarin Chinese)

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2009. 11. “Planetary Seeds: The Crisis of Epistemic Diversity in Globalization.” 2009 Annual Conference of Taiwanese Sociological Association. Soochow University, Taipei. Soochow University, Taipei. (in Mandarin Chinese)

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2009. 03. “A Taiwanese Articulation of Globalized Knowledge – a Postcolonial and Sociological Perspective of Knowledge.” The 26th Interdisciplinary Conference of Humanity and Social Sciences, Soochow University. (in Mandarin Chinese)

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2009. 01. “ Rethinking Sociology of Knowledge from a Taiwan Standpoint.” The fourth Workshop of Social Theory: The Constitution of Western Society vs. The Generation of Taiwanese Theoretical Perspective. Fo Guang University.  (in Mandarin Chinese)

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2007.06. “A Politics of Writing as Articulation: Rethinking Taiwanese postcolonial discourse.” 2007 Conditions of Knowledge: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society Shanghai Conference, June 15-17, Shanghai: Shanghai University. 

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2006.09. “From Representation to Articulation: Postcolonial Feminine Subjectivity in Taiwan.” 2006, Annual meeting and Conference of Taiwanese Feminist Scholars Association: Gender Representation and Power Relation. National Chengchi university. (in Mandarin Chinese)

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2005.07. “Trans-creative Cosmopolitanisms as Effects of Molecular Translation –– the Translation and Construction of the “World” in the Discourse of Westernization in Early Twentieth Century China.” International Conference Textual Translation and Cultural Context: China, Japan, and the West since the Late Ming. Aichi University, Japan.  

Chuang, Chun-Mei. 2003.10. "Derrida, Lu-Xun, Benjamin: The Molecular Translation and the Construction of Chinese Linguistic Modernity.” Conference of Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica.