Dr. Li-Chun Hsiao studied Comparative Literature at Buffalo State (University of New York), specializing in Postcolonial Studies, Literary and Cultural Theories, and Caribbean Literatures. Having taught at National Chiao Tung University and National Taiwan University, Hsiao is currently Associate Professor at Waseda University in Tokyo, teaching at its School of International Liberal Studies as well as Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies. Previously, he was Editor-in-Chief of Chung Wai Literary Quarterly, served on the Editorial Board of Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, and has been a Visiting Scholar at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo and at UCLA. Hsiao edited, introduced, and contributed a chapter to the book "This Shipwreck of Fragments": Historical Memory, Imaginary Identities, and Postcolonial Geography in Caribbean Culture and Literature (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2009), and has book chapters collected in the edited volumes Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror (Purdue UP 2010), Comparatizing Taiwan (Routledge 2015), and Keywords of Taiwan Theory (Unitas 2019). His papers have been published by, among other outlets, Chungwai Literary Quarterly (2014), Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies (2010), CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (2009), and M/MLA Journal (2008).