Drama Program: Graduate Students & TAs

Graduate Students

Wen-ling Lin

Wen-ling Lin comes from Taiwan. She holds a master's degree in Dramatic Art from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her master's thesis, titled "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 Asian performance, dramatic theory, national identity on stage, Western modern theatre, and Taiwanese cultural studies. Currently she is working on her dissertation, tentatively titled "Performing Nation, Imagining Taiwaneseness in Twenty-first Century Theatre in Taiwan," focusing on the interaction between national imagination in theatre and the public discourses of oceanic culture, multiculturalism, and "taike phenomena."