Duncan McColl Chesney Author

Duncan McColl Chesney is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the National Taiwan University in Taipei. He holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Yale University and has published on various literary, cinematic, and film theoretical topics including pieces on Proust, Faulkner, Joyce, Coetzee, and Visconti. He was a recipient of a Wu Da-You Award for young scholars from the National Science Council of Taiwan in 2012 and continues to pursue research and teaching interests in comparative European modernism, literary theory, film studies, and modern British, Commonwealth, and Irish literatures.