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Catherine Chou - Curriculum Vitae

National Chengchi University(國立政治大學), History, Faculty Member
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) • ‘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 • • • • • ‘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)