Professor Lee Yu-Lin was awarded a PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia. He is now the research fellow at the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy of Academia Sinica. In addition, Professor Lee has been professor at Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature and Transnational Cultural Studies of National Chung-Hsing University, visiting scholar at Harvard University, and the chairman of the Taiwan Humanities Society. His main research areas are Taiwanese literature, film studies, ecocriticism, translation studies and Deleuze studies. He is the author of several books, including Writing Taiwan: A Study of Taiwan’s Nativist Literature, Liminality of Translation: Subjectivity, Ethics and Aesthetics, and The Fabulation of a New Earth: Contemporary Taiwanese Nature Writing.