The Fiction of Politics and Politics of Fiction
International Colloquium of American Studies, Olomouc, September 1-6, 2002
 
PI-HUA NI
 









Dr. Pi-hua Ni Ph.D. of British and American Literature, National Taiwan Normal University.

International Scholarship:

Grantee of Fulbright Scholarship for Institute on Contemporary American Literature, 2000. State University of Louisville, Kentucky.

Publications:

A. Journal Papers:

  1. Ni, P. H. 2002. Game, Reality and History in Postmodern Fiction: On the Contribution of Postmodern Fiction. (Mis)Understanding Postmodernism. Olomouc: Palacky UP, 2002. (To be in print in winter 2002).
  2. Ni, P. H. 2001. Teaching Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook as a Metafictional Text. Studies on Humanities and Ecology in Taiwan 3.2:75-91.
  3. Ni, P. H. 2001. On Postmodern Fiction: the Problematic of Reality. Studies on Humanities and Ecology in Taiwan 3.1: 77-86.
  4. Ni, P. H. 2000. On Postmodern Parody: The Case of Donald Barthelme. Providence Humanities Journal 12: 83-106.
  5. Ni, P. H. 1999. The Game of Lessing: A Metafictional Reading of Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook. Providence Humanities Journal 11: 135-54.
  6. Ni, P. H. 1995. [(Historiographic) Meta] Fiction: On Linda Hutcheon’s ‘Historiographic Metafiction.’ Tamkang Journal 43: 473-84.
  7. Ni, P. H. 1995. Transgressing to Infinity: A Genealogy of the Birth of God. Research Papers in Linguistics and Literature 4: 60-68.
  8. Ni, P. H. 1994. The History/Fiction Borderline Transgressed: On the Multiple Subversive Narratives in The White Hotel. Research papers in Linguistics and Literature 3: 69-82.
  9. Ni, P. H. 1993. Freud vs. The Modern Cassandra: Reconstruction and Deconstruction of Freudian Psychoanalysis in D. M. Thomas’ The White Hotel. Proceedings of the 5th National Conference of English and American Literature, ROC. 5: 343-65.

B. Conference Papers:

  1. Ni, P. H., 2002. Politics of John Barth and John Barth of Politics: the Political Part of the Apolitical Barth. American Studies Colloquium 2002: Fictions of Politics and Politics of Fiction. Palacky University, Olomouc, The Czech Republic. Sept. 1-6, 2002.
  2. Ni, P. H., 2002. Game, Reality and Historiography in John Barth’s The Sot-Weed Factor. The 3rd National Conference on Contemporary Thoughts: Fictionality and Reality. June 15, 2000. Providence University, Taiwan.
  3. Ni, P. H., 2002. Pen(is) in John Barth’s Fiction: from Patriarchal to Androgynous Narrative Paradigm. European Association for American Studies Biennial Conference: ”The United States Of/In Europe,” Bordeaux, France. March 22-25, 2002. (NSC Travel Grant)
  4. Ni, P. H., 2001. Game, Reality and History in Postmodern Fiction: on the Contribution of Postmodern Fiction. American Studies Colloquium 2001: (Mis)Understanding Postmodernism, Palacky University,Olomouc, the Czech Republic. September 2-7, 2001.
  5. Ni, P. H., 2001. Speaking of Americanness through Architectures. Presented on the Internationalization of American Stuides: Challenges of the New Century. The 21st Convention of the American Studies Association, R.O.C. June 2, 2001.
  6. Ni, P. H., 2000. Teaching Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook as a Metafictional Text. Presented on ”Doris Lessing Panel,” Modern Language Association 2000 Convention (the 117th Convention), Marriotte Wardman Park, Washington D.C., USA. Dec. 27-30, 2000. (NSC Travel Grant)
  7. Ni, P. H., 2000. On Postmodern Fiction: the Problematics of Reality. The1st National Conference on Contemporary Thoughts. Providence University, Taiwan. May 13-14, 2000.
  8. Ni, P. H. 1999. On Postmodern Parody: The Case of Donald Barthelme’s The King. Presented on the 16th Biennial Conference on American Studies, The Nordic Association for American Studies, University of Turku, Finland. Aug. 11-15, 1999. (Project Grant by NSC 87-2418-H-126-002 & Travel Grant by Providence University)
  9. Ni, P. H. 1999. Bakhtin: A Precursor of Postmodern Fiction. Presented on the 9th International Conference on Bakhtin, Free University of Berlin, Germany. July 26-30, 1999.
  10. Ni, P. H. 1999. Fighting a Masculine War with a Feminine Writing: Paradox in Virginia Woolf’s Style. Presented on the 9th Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, University of Delaware, USA. June 10-13, 1999.
  11. Ni, P. H. 1998. Mapping Foucault’s Development of Power Theory.
    Presented on the 8th Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, State University of New York at Cortland, USA. Oct. 18-20,(MOE Travel Grant)
  12. Ni, P. H. 1993. Freud vs. The Modern Cassandra: Reconstruction and Deconstruction of Freudian Psychoanalysis in D. M. Thomas’ The White Hotel. Presented on the 5th National Conference on English and American Literature, ROC. Nov. 20 1993.

    C. National Science Council Project Grants:
  1. Ni, P. H. 1998. On Postmodern Parody: The Case of Donald Barthelme.NSC 87-2418-H-126-002.
  2. Ni, P. H. 2000. Game, Reality and History in Postmodern Fiction: TheCase of John Barth. NSC 89-2411-H-327-010
  3. Ni, P. H. 2001. Pen(is) in John Barth’s Postmodern Fiction: From Patriarchal to Androgynous Narrative Paradigm. NSC 90-2411-H-390-002

D. Others:

  1. Ni, P. H. 1997. Bakhtinian Thought and the Politics in/of Postmodern Fiction: Dialogization and Subversion. (Ph.D. dissertation; NSC Award 1998)
  2. Ni, P. H. 1994. Dialogization in the Novel: Bakhtin as a Presursor of Postmodern Movement. Providence English Newsletter 2:7.
  3. Ni, P. H. 1992. Indeterminacy in Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook: The Game of Lessing and the Lessing of the Game. (M.A. thesis)

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