Catherine Chou - Curriculum Vitae
Catherine L. Chou 周怡齡
Department of History, National Chengchi University
No. 64, Sec. 2, Zhinan Rd., Wenshan District
Taipei, Taiwan 11605
choucath@nccu.edu.tw
Employment and Education 工作經驗和學歷
National Chengchi University (Taipei, Taiwan) 國立政治大學
Assistant Professor of History, August 2024-present 歷史系助理教授
Grinnell College (Grinnell, IA, USA)
Associate Professor of History, May 2024-July 2024 歷史系副教授
Assistant Professor of History, January 2018-May 2024 歷史系助理教授
Villanova University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
Arthur J. Ennis Postdoctoral Fellow, August 2016-June 2017 博士後研究員
Stanford University (Stanford, CA, USA)
PhD in History, December 2016 歷史學博士
• Major Fields 研究領域: Early Modern England and Europe, the Enlightenment, Modern Britain and the Empire
近代早期英格蘭與歐洲歷史、啓蒙運動、現代英國與帝國
Amherst College, Five College Fellow in History, July 2014-June 2015 研究員
Princeton University, B.A. in History, June 2006 歷史學士學位
Publications 著作目錄
Books 專書
1. Catherine Lila Chou, Parliament in the British Political Imagination, 1550-1600 (under contract with Manchester
University Press)
2. Catherine Lila Chou and Mark Harrison, Revolutionary Taiwan: Making Nationhood in a New World Order, 210
pages (Cambria Press, September 2024)
PhD Dissertation 論文
1. Catherine Chou, 2016, “Parliament in the Elizabethan Political Imagination, 1558-1603”, 303 pages, Stanford
University, Department of History
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Roundtable Submissions 期刊論文
1. Catherine Lila Chou, ‘Decolonizing the ‘One China’ Narrative: The Case of Taiwan’, The Historical Journal
(AHCI/SSCI), vol. 67, no. 1 (January 2024), p. 161-168 (part of a roundtable on “Decolonizing Chinese History”
with Gina Anne Tam, James Millward, James Gethyn Evans, and Taomo Zhou)
2. Catherine Lila Chou, ‘‘To Omit the Precise Rule and Strayt Observacion’: The 1572 ‘Bill Concerning Rites and
Ceremonies’ and the Campaign for Liturgical Diversity in the Elizabethan Church’, Journal of British Studies
(AHCI/SSCI), vol. 59, no. 1 (February 2020), p. 80-100
3. Catherine Chou, ‘“One that was no furtherer of this devise”: (Manufactured?) Opposition to the Monarchical
Republic of Elizabeth I’, Parliamentary History (AHCI/SSCI), vol. 36, no. 3 (October 2017), p. 273-97
4. Catherine Chou, ‘The Parliamentary Mind and the Mutable Constitution’, Historical Research (AHCI/SSCI), vol.
89, no. 245 (August 2016), p. 470-85
Presentations 學術會議論文
Conferences 學術會
• ‘Catholic Experiments with Parliament in Elizabethan England and Jacobean Scotland’, Western Conference on
British Studies in Arlington, TX, September 2023
• Roundtable on ‘Decolonizing Chinese History in and beyond the Academy’, Association for Asian Studies annual
conference in Honolulu, HI, March 2022
• ‘The ‘Early Modern’ as a Category of Liberation: The Case Study of Taiwan’, Renaissance Society of America
annual conference in Philadelphia, PA, March 2020 (cancelled due to pandemic)
• ‘Experimental Parliaments in the Marian Civil Wars’, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies in Riverside, CA,
March 2020 (cancelled due to pandemic)
• ‘A ‘Petition for Succession Known’: Reassessing the Monarchical Republic of Elizabeth I’, Conference on New
Histories for the Age of Shakespeare in Boulder, CO, November 2018
• ‘Multinational Liturgies for an English Church? Challenges to the Elizabethan Act of Uniformity’, North American
Conference on British Studies in Providence, RI, October 2018
• ‘‘Brittano-Belgicus’? Anglo-Dutch Parliamentary Theory and Practice 1585-1630’, North American Conference on
British Studies in Denver, CO, November 2017
• ‘Multinational Liturgies in a National Church: The 1572 Bill for Rites and Ceremonies’, Sixteenth-Century Studies
Conference in Milwaukee, WI, October 2017
• ‘The Bill Concerning Rites and Ceremonies and the Parliament of 1572’, Renaissance Society of America annual
conference in Chicago, IL, March 2017
• ‘Parliament in the Elizabethan Political Imagination: New Perspectives and Paradigms’, North American
Conference on British Studies in Little Rock, AK, November 2015
• ‘The Monarchical Republic of Cardinal Henrique? The English Response to the 1580 Portuguese Succession
Crisis’, Conference on Anglo-Iberian Relations (1500-1800) in Mertola, Portugal, April 2015
• ‘Will the Real Parliament Please Stand Up? The 1568 York-Westminster Conference Revisited’, Sixteenth-Century
Studies Conference in New Orleans, LA, October 2014 (panel organizer)
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‘Henry Howard and the Popish Parliament’, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies in Riverside, CA, March
2014
• ‘“For the Right which Pertainenth unto her”: Mary Stuart’s Parliamentary Case for the English Succession’,
Society for Court Studies annual conference in Oxford, UK, September 2013
Invited Talks and Seminars 特邀講座和研討會
• Book Talk for Revolutionary Taiwan: Making Nationhood in a Changing World Order, with Mark Harrison,
National Taiwan Normal University, Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages, and Literature, September 20,
2024
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‘Dueling Parliaments in the Marian Civil Wars’, Early Modern Britain Seminar at Oxford University, November
2020 (online via Zoom)
‘A Propaganda Campaign against the Monarchical Republic of Elizabeth I? New Sources and Perspectives’,
Tudor-Stuart Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research in London, May 2017
‘Experimental and Conceptual Parliaments in Early Modern England and Europe’, Huntington Library ‘Brown
Bag’ Talk in Pasadena, CA, June 2016
‘Dueling Parliaments in the Marian Civil Wars’, Berkeley-Stanford British Studies Seminar, March 2015
‘The Parliamentary Mind and the Mutable Constitution’, Parliament, Politics and People Seminar at the Institute
of Historical Research in London, January 2014
Selected Grants, Awards, and Fellowships 獎學金, 研究金
Franklin Grant, American Philosophical Society
Competitive Grant, Grinnell College
Travel Grant, Huntington Library
Weter Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Stanford University
Association for Low Countries Studies Travel Grant
Five College Dissertation Fellowship, Amherst College
Graduate Student Prize, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies
Runner-up, Wiley Blackwell Annual Pollard Prize
Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
Research Grant, Huntington Library
Research Grant, Renaissance Society of America
Francis Bacon Foundation Short-Term Fellowship, Huntington Library
Graduate Research Opportunity Grant, Stanford University
Spring 2019
Fall 2018
Spring 2017
2015-16
Spring 2016
2014-15
Winter 2015
Summer 2014
2013-14
Spring 2013
Winter 2013
Summer 2012
Summer 2012
Teaching Experience 教學經驗
Grinnell College (Assistant Professor of History, promoted to Associate with tenure in May 2024)
Advanced Historiography 史學課程
Medieval Europe, 400-1400 中古歐洲歷史,400-1400
Renaissance, Reformations, Explorations 文藝復興、宗教改革、地理大發現
Tudors and Stuarts 近代早期英格蘭歷史
Global Reformations: Christianity, Capitalism, and Colonialism 宗教改革全球化:基督教、資本主義、殖民主義
When the World Became Global: Empire, Expansion, and Exchange 近代早期全球歷史,1500-1800
Order and Disorder in Early Modern Europe 近代早期歐洲的秩序與混亂
The Empire Writes Back: Colonial Literature and Postcolonial Responses 帝國回寫:殖民文學與後殖民反應
Villanova University (Postdoctoral Fellow)
Core Humanities Seminar – Ancients (3 sections)
Core Humanities Seminar – Moderns (3 sections)
Amherst College (Five College Fellow)
Early Modern England: Renaissance, Reformation, and Revolution
Stanford University (Teaching Fellow)
The Politics of Food in Early Modern England
Professional Service 專業的參與
[To the field] 歷史領域
Editorial Board, Broadsides, North American Conference on British Studies
Nominating Committee, North American Conference on British Studies
Prize Committee, North American Taiwan Studies Association
Selection Committee, Short-term Grants, Folger Shakespeare Library
Peer Reviewer, English Historical Review
Peer Reviewer, Transnational Asia
Peer Reviewer, Canadian Journal of History
2023-present
2021-present
2021, 2023
2019
2023
2023
2017
[Institutional] 本校
Grinnell College
Liberal Arts in Prison Program Faculty Committee, Grinnell College
Steiner Music Research Awards Committee, Grinnell College
Scholarship Committee, Grinnell College
Search Committee for East Asian History Tenure Track Position, Grinnell College
Belongingness and Persistence Steering Committee, Grinnell College
Rosenfield Center, Program Committee, Grinnell College
Student Research Symposium Organizing Committee
Faculty Advisory Board, Grinnell Historical Review
Second-Year Retreat Working Group, Grinnell College
Faulconer Gallery Advisory Board, Grinnell College
Augustine and Culture Seminar Task force on Diversity, Villanova University
Student assistant to the Graduate Diversity Recruitment Officer, Stanford University
Coordinator, Berkeley-Stanford British Studies Seminar
2023-present
Spring 2023
2022-present
2022-2023
2020
2019-2021
2019, 2020
2019
2019
2018-19
2016-17
2011-12
2011-12
Language Skills 語文能力
English: native speaker and writer
French: reading proficiency
Spanish: reading proficiency
Mandarin Chinese: advanced reading and speaking, plus writing (typing) proficiency
Taiwanese Hokkien: intermediate reading and writing (POJ and MOE romanization)