Shu-Fang Lai
literary scholar
Shu-Fang Lai (Chinese: 賴淑芳) is an academic and author who specialises in Victorian literature and periodicals, especially the work of Charles Dickens. She is a professor at National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan.
From 2017 to 2019, she was a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh where she researched Robert Chambers and his Edinburgh Journal.
Works
Books
The Land of Story-Books: Scottish Children’s Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century (2019)
How We Became Posthuman： Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (2018)
Victorian Fancy (2013)
Charles Reade, George Meredith and Harriet Martineau as Serial Writers of Once a Week (1859-1865) (2008)
References
External links
Ten Minutes with ... Prof.
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