Shu-mei Shih
About
Shu-mei Shih is a Korean-born Taiwanese American scholar and literary theorist. She is a professor of comparative literature, Asian languages and cultures, and Asian American Studies at University of California, Los Angeles and was the president of the American Comparative Literature Association from 2021 to 2022. In 2018, she was also appointed as honorary chair professor of Taiwan languages, literature and culture at National Taiwan Normal University and is the current director of the UCLA-NTNU Taiwan Studies Initiative of the UCLA Asia Pacific Center.
