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Deppmans Travel Asia for a Year of Lectures and Study
After a year-long sabbatical
in Asia, Assistant Professor of
Chinese Hsiu-Chuang Deppman
and Assistant Professor of English
and Comparative Literature Jed
Deppman have recently returned to
America. The two traveled to Taiwan
with both their children.
Hsiu-Chuang Deppman received a Fulbright grant to research her main project, which she referred to as “a monograph entitled ‘The Cultural Politics of Adaptation: Chinese Fiction and Film from 1980 to 2006.’” She described it as “a chronological, decade-by-decade analysis of the parallel literary and cinematic movements in three Chinas: Hong Kong, Taiwan and China.”
Although affiliated with the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy at Taipei’s Academia Sinica, Hsiu-Chuang Deppman presented papers and lectured at other institutions and conferences in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Japan and the U.S.
Also at the institution as a visiting researcher, Jed Deppman worked on his book, Trying to Think with Emily Dickinson.
“I’m trying to place Emily Dickinson in her philosophical context: mental philosophy,” he said.
“She invented the ‘trying to think’ form, in which she uses lyric poetry to answer really hard philosophical questions…We can learn a lot from understanding the way Dickinson approached the vocabularies and philosophies of her time.”
Jed Deppman also visited two other major institutions, the National Sun Yat-Sen University and the National Cheng Kung University (where Hsiu-Chuang studied).
During his year abroad, Jed lectured on James Joyce’s Ulysses at Italy’s James Joyce Genetic Seminar. On his way back to Taiwan, he made a stop in Japan for the annual Emily Dickinson International Society conference. Both professors talked about their trip with enthusiasm. Hsiu- Chuang Deppman said it was “a busy and fulfilling year,” and Jed Deppman described the Academia Sinica as “unlike any place in America. It’s a pure research institution.”
Jed likened the atmosphere to a college campus — without any students. Employees “come around and supply you with tea and hot water every morning because they want you to keep working,” he said. Expect to see both professors’ central projects in print this coming year.
Both members of the Oberlin faculty since 2003, Hsiu-Chuang Deppman teaches courses in Chinese language and literature, modern Chinese literature and film and comparative literature. Jed Deppman is the program director of the Literature department and is currently instructing the first year seminar, Death and the Art of Dying as well as the introductory comparative literature course.
Hsiu-Chuang Deppman received a Fulbright grant to research her main project, which she referred to as “a monograph entitled ‘The Cultural Politics of Adaptation: Chinese Fiction and Film from 1980 to 2006.’” She described it as “a chronological, decade-by-decade analysis of the parallel literary and cinematic movements in three Chinas: Hong Kong, Taiwan and China.”
Although affiliated with the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy at Taipei’s Academia Sinica, Hsiu-Chuang Deppman presented papers and lectured at other institutions and conferences in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Japan and the U.S.
Also at the institution as a visiting researcher, Jed Deppman worked on his book, Trying to Think with Emily Dickinson.
“I’m trying to place Emily Dickinson in her philosophical context: mental philosophy,” he said.
“She invented the ‘trying to think’ form, in which she uses lyric poetry to answer really hard philosophical questions…We can learn a lot from understanding the way Dickinson approached the vocabularies and philosophies of her time.”
Jed Deppman also visited two other major institutions, the National Sun Yat-Sen University and the National Cheng Kung University (where Hsiu-Chuang studied).
During his year abroad, Jed lectured on James Joyce’s Ulysses at Italy’s James Joyce Genetic Seminar. On his way back to Taiwan, he made a stop in Japan for the annual Emily Dickinson International Society conference. Both professors talked about their trip with enthusiasm. Hsiu- Chuang Deppman said it was “a busy and fulfilling year,” and Jed Deppman described the Academia Sinica as “unlike any place in America. It’s a pure research institution.”
Jed likened the atmosphere to a college campus — without any students. Employees “come around and supply you with tea and hot water every morning because they want you to keep working,” he said. Expect to see both professors’ central projects in print this coming year.
Both members of the Oberlin faculty since 2003, Hsiu-Chuang Deppman teaches courses in Chinese language and literature, modern Chinese literature and film and comparative literature. Jed Deppman is the program director of the Literature department and is currently instructing the first year seminar, Death and the Art of Dying as well as the introductory comparative literature course.
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