Shu-Fang Lai

Shu-Fang Lai (Chinese: 賴淑芳) is an academic and author who specialises in Victorian literature and periodicals, especially the work of Charles Dickens. She is a professor at National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan.

From 2017 to 2019, she was a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh where she researched Robert Chambers and his Edinburgh Journal.^[1]

Works

Books

• The Land of Story-Books: Scottish Children’s Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century (2019)^[2]
• How We Became Posthuman： Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (2018)^[2]
• Victorian Fancy (2013)^[2]
• Charles Reade, George Meredith and Harriet Martineau as Serial Writers of Once a Week (1859-1865) (2008)^[2]