DEPARTMENT OF ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES

Hsiu Ling Robertson retired from Northwestern University in 2020. Before joining the teaching track faculty at Northwestern University, she was an associate professor at Tunghai University in Taiwan. In the academic year 1999-2000, she was also a visiting scholar in the Department of East Asian Languages and civilization at Harvard University.

She received her Master Degree in Chinese Literature focusing on Poetry of the Tang Dynasty from Tunghai University. She also received Doctoral Degree in Education focusing on teaching Literature through Cultural Perspective from University of Massachusetts.

Her teaching at Northwestern focused on heritage learning instruction. She taught second and third year Chinese language courses in addition to exploring globalization and pop culture issues within these advanced language classes.

She has published two books: Women’s Self-recognition in Modern Chinese Literature. Taipei: Le Jin Books LTD, 2004 (in Chinese); Wings of Life: The Road Less Traveled by Nine Brave Women. Taipei: Nu Shudian (Women’s Publisher), 2003 (in Chinese).

Hsiu Ling directed a documentary film, “Foreign Brides in Taiwan” which was accepted at two International Film Festivals: Athens International Film Festival at Ohio, US; and Sheffield Doc / Fests at Sheffield, UK.

After retiring, she was engaged with a Law Firm as an independent contractor for Consulting & Cultural Expert services from 2022 to 2023.

In 2023, she was invited to join as a “Specially-Invited Expert” to participate in academic exchanges and contribute to world culture and literature (世界文學).

Recently, Hsiu Ling’s article “Literature Review of Into the Desert” was published in Eon, vol.5 / no1 / 2024.