Talk by Chi Ta-wei, National Chengchi University.
Thursday, November 19, 2026
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Bunche Hall 11372
Talk about the books
The Membranes and
A History of Tongzhi Literature, bringing together his work as a fiction writer and a literary scholar. Discuss imagining queer futures through fiction and rediscovering Taiwan’s queer literary past, while also introducing the English translation project for
A History of Tongzhi Literature. Ta-wei will also share his experiences as a writer and scholar since leaving UCLA.
Chi Ta-wei is a Taiwanese writer and scholar, and an Associate Professor at National Chengchi University’s Graduate Institute of Taiwanese Literature. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature from UCLA. His novel
The Membranes (1996), available in English in Ari Larissa Heinrich’s translation. He is also the author of
A History of Tongzhi Literature (2017), a study of Taiwanese queer literature currently being translated into English. Its Japanese edition will be published in December 2026 by Misuzu Shobo in Tokyo.