Ding-Liang Chen

Ding-Liang Chen is a first-generation Taiwanese researcher in the Combined Ph.D. Program in American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. He earned a dual B.A. in Economics and English from National Chengchi University and an M.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures from National Taiwan University. His doctoral research aims to reconstruct transpacific histories of informatics, cybernetics, and digital infrastructures from the nineteenth century to the present era of cyberwarfare. Ding-Liang engages scholarship on the history of science and technology, settler colonial critique, and the environmental humanities to gesture towards an infrastructural critique of European, American, and East Asian empire, while calling into question the uneven production of knowledge in Anglophone academia. Prior to joining Yale, he served as an editor of world literature and non-fiction at the Rye Field Publishing Company and the Director of Research and Planning at the Taiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation (TAEF).