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Wen-ling Lin is writing her dissertation, with the working title, "Performing Nation, Imagining Taiwaneseness in Twenty-first Century Theatre in Taiwan." It focuses on the interaction between national imagination in theatre and the public discourses of oceanic culture, multiculturalism, and "taike phenomena," as well as on the representation of history and ethnicity in relations to national identity. She receives her MA in Dramatic Art from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her thesis, "Staging Adultery in La calandra, La mandragola, and La veniexiana," examines how the triumph of adultery over social norms renders erudite comedy different from its Roman model and explores the reasons from historical, social, literary, and theatrical angles. Her research interests include dramatic theory, national identity on stage, Western modern theatre, gender in Asian performance, and Taiwanese cultural studies. Her scholarly article "Translating A Doll House in Taiwan” was published in Perspectives: Studies in Transtology (2008, Routledge).

Amy Woodbury is a PhD candidate in English Literature at Tufts University. She is currently in the process of completing her dissertation titled "Technical Difficulties: Modernism and the Machine," which explores and agitates the boundaries between the human and technology in twentieth- and twenty-first-century literary and cinematic texts. Amy’s research interests include British literature; modernism; literary and cultural theory; and film. Her article "Writing the Wound: Michelle Cliff’s No Telephone to Heaven" appears in the anthology Come Weep with Me: Loss and Mourning in the Writings of Caribbean Women Writers (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2007).