National Taiwan University
Dr. Sebastian Hsien-hao Liao is Dean of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, and Distinguished Professor of English and comparative literature at National Taiwan University. He is also President of the Taipei Chinese Center of International PEN. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and was post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University. He also served as President of the Comparative Literature Association of Taiwan and Commissioner of Culture at Taipei City Government. His research interests include: contemporary literary and cultural theories, comparative poetics, techno-humanities, Red-ology, the Chinese diaspora, modern Anglo-American literature, Taoist aesthetics, creativity studies, cultural policy, etc. The books he has published include among others Love and Deconstruction, Brave New Century: Pre-modern, Modern, and Postmodern, Sorrows of Mending Heaven: Dream of the Red Chamber as National Allegory, Who Is Afraid of Meaninglessness: from the Avant-garde to Postmodernism, Illusions of Identity: Taiwan Cinema since the New Wave, and Deleuze and Taoism as well as edited volumes such as Beyond Apocalypse: The Plague, Globalization and the Anthropocene, The Fantasy of Bilingual Nation, The Multiplicities of China: A Post-Western Perspective on Traditional Chinese Culture, and AI and Humanity.