EATS Board Member, 2022-2025, Secretary General 2025-present
Ti-han Chang was a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Asia Pacific Studies at the University of Central Lancashire. Her research focuses on the contemporary eco-literature in Taiwan and its implication in the Asia Pacific region. Ti-han is particularly interested in postcolonial ecocriticism, which draws her attention to topics such as nonhuman agency, borders and nations, climate change and migration. In the past, Ti-han had served as the treasurer and board member of the Francophone Association of Taiwan Studies (AFET). She was elected as a board member of the European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS) in 2022 and currently serves as the Secretary General. Apart from her academic publications, she also contributes online articles on more general environmental and literature topics for The Conversation and Taiwan Insights. She co-hosts Taiwan On-Air Podcast Series, publishing book or film chats related to contemporary Taiwan studies. Currently, she is preparing her monograph on contemporary eco-writings in Taiwan. Her co-edited books include: Reorienting Taiwan: Ocean, Selfhood and the Pacific (Brill, 2025), A Taiwanese Ecocritical Reader (Columbia University Press, 2025), Isle of the Austronesian: Indigeneity, World-Making and Taiwan (Balestier, 2025).
Dr Ti-han Chang, Affiliated Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Asia Pacific Studies, University of Central Lancashire