Niki J.P. Alsford 歐尼基
is Professor of Anthropology and Human Geography, and Director for the Institutes for the Study of the Asia Pacific (ISAP), and the Institute for Area and Migration Studies (AMIS) at the University of Central Lancashire. He is a Research Associate at the Centre of Taiwan Studies at SOAS and an Associate Member of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford. Alsford’s research focuses primarily on Taiwan, Korea, and the Pacific Islands. He is the book series editor for the Taiwan Series at BRILL, the Korean series at Routledge, and a new series on Asia Pacific Cultures, Communities, and Landscapes at Palgrave Macmillan. Niki is the author of Taiwan Lives: A Socio-Political History (University of Washington, 2024).
Ti-han Chang 張迪涵
previously worked as an Assistant Professor in Asia Pacific Studies at the University of Central Lancashire. Her research focusses on contemporary eco-literature and postcolonial studies in Taiwan and the wider region of Asia Pacific. She has published a number of articles, reviews and translations in the relevant fields. She is also the co-editor of A Transdisciplinary Study of Global Mobilities: Identities on the Move (Springer, 2024) and A Taiwanese Ecoliterature Reader (Columbia University Press, forthcoming).
Kuei-fen Chiu 邱貴芬
is Professor Emeritus of National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan. She has published on Taiwan literature and Taiwan documentaries. Her recent publications include the Chinese monograph Taiwan Literature’s Long Journey to World Literature (National Cheng-chi University, 2023) and The Making of Chinese-Sinophone Literatures as World Literature (Routledge, 2022), co-edited with Yingjin Zhang. She is currently co-editing with Professor Michael Berry an English edited volume on the Taiwanese nature writer, Wu Ming-yi (Cambria, forthcoming).
Norbert Danysz 笪亮
is a doctoral student at Université Lumière Lyon 2, where he studies the shifting graphic styles of Chinese comics over the 20th century. He also researches comic art in contemporary China and in Taiwan. He has recently edited with Julien Bouvard and Marie Laureillard La bande dessinée en Asie orientale : un art en mouvement (Maisonneuve & Larose, Hémisphères, 2024).
is Assistant Professor of Chinese studies at the University of Lyon 3 Jean Moulin (France). He has published monographs, translations and many articles on China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, including La Littérature à l’ère de l’Anthropocène – Une étude écocritique autour des œuvres de l’écrivain taïwanais Wu Ming-yi (L’Asiathèque, 2019).
DJ W. Hatfield 施永德 (Kacaw)
is Associate Professor in the Graduate Institute of Musicology at National Taiwan University. An ethnomusicologist and sound installation artist, Hatfield has published articles on popular religious practice, dance and sovereignty, and contemporary Indigenous art.
Julien Laporte 羅立安
is a doctoral candidate in Indigenous Studies at the National Dong Hwa University (NDHU) in Taiwan, as well as a doctoral student in anthropology at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) in Belgium. He has been working with the Tao people from Irala, in Taiwan, for the past 5 years in an attempt to identify and record parts of Tao people’s local oceanic knowledge.
Hung-chi Liao 廖鴻基
a Hualien-born author, has pioneered Oceanic Literature since the 1990s, a genre that explores the aesthetics of marine life and activities while offering new literary and political narratives of Taiwan. Over three decades, his highly acclaimed works, including 鯨生鯨世 [The Life Story of Whales and Dolphins] (1997) and 黑潮漂流 [Drifting with Kuroshio Current] (2018), have shaped a unique literary landscape in contemporary Taiwanese literature. As founder of the Kuroshio Ocean Education Foundation, Liao has championed awareness of Taiwan’s marine ecosystems. His writings, studied widely by students and scholars globally, emphasise the interconnectedness of humans and the ocean, advocating for ecological and cultural conservation.
Hsing-juh Lin 林幸助
graduated from Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island (Ph.D. in Oceanography). He is Lifetime Distinguished Professor of Life Sciences at National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan. He has published more than two hundred articles on aquatic ecosystems and is a lead author for regional assessment of biodiversity and ecosystem services for Asia and the Pacific by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES, UNEP).
is Associate Professor at the School of Chinese, University of Hong Kong. She has published Gender and Ethnicity in Taiwanese Literature: Japanese Colonial Era to Present Day) (National Taiwan University Press, 2021), Colonial Taiwan: Negotiating Identities and Modernity through Literature (Brill, 2017), and several co-edited volumes on Taiwanese literature.
Antonio Paoliello-Palermo 張曉東
holds a PhD in Translation and Intercultural Studies from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where he is a lecturer in East Asian Studies. His research focuses on Sinophone literature and culture, particularly from Taiwan and Southeast Asia. In addition to his academic work, he translates Sinophone fiction and graphic novels from Taiwan into Italian.
Scott E. Simon 史國良
Ph.D. (McGill, 1998) is Professor in the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies at the University of Ottawa. In addition to numerous articles and chapters, he has published four books on Taiwan, most recently Truly Human: Indigeneity and Indigenous Resurgence on Formosa (University of Toronto, 2023).
Futuru C.L. Tsai 蔡政良
Ph.D., Director of the National Museum of Prehistory, Taiwan, and Professor in the Ph.D. Program in Austronesian Studies at National Taitung University. He has published several books and award-winning ethnographic films. His latest book, 第五道浪之後 [Beyond the Fifth Wave] (NMP, 2023) explores the traditional marine knowledge of Amis underwater hunters and the management of indigenous marine areas.
Mireia Vargas-Urpí
holds a Ph.D. in Translation and Intercultural Studies from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where she is a senior lecturer in East Asian Studies. Her research focuses on translation and interpreting from Chinese into Spanish and Catalan. She is also a literary translator of Chinese and Sinophone fiction into Catalan.