Yi-Ping Wu
Education:
Bachelor of Arts in History, National Chengchi University Master of Arts in Theatre, National Taiwan University
Ph.D. in Theatre, Film and Media Arts, The Ohio State University
Work Experience:
Research Assistant, The Ohio State University Libraries Project Assistant Professor, Department of Radio and Television, Ming Chuan University Assistant Professor, Department of Radio and Television, Ming Chuan University Adjunct Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Transdisciplinary Performing Arts, National Taiwan University of Arts
Honors and Awards:
Project Performing Critic, National Culture and Arts Foundation, 2021 North American Taiwan Studies Association Graduate Student Travel Grant, 2019 Ohio State University Alumni Grant for Graduate Research and Scholarship, 2018 Excellence Graduate Student Award, The Ohio State University, 2016 Fulbright Doctoral Degree Fellowship, 2014-2016 The Ohio State University Doctoral Fellowship 2014-2019
Publications and Research:
A. Doctoral Dissertation:
The Comfort Women in Northern East Asia as Represented by Plays, Rallies, and Exhibits. The Ohio State University.
B. Journal Articles:
1. Wu, Yi-Ping. “A Discussion on the Body Politics of Women Warriors of Kinmen.” Fu Hsing Kang Academic Journal. 126 (2025.06): 99-120.
2. Wu, Yi-Ping. “On the Birth and Demise of a Museum: The History of Ama Museum and the Issue of Taiwanese Comfort Women and Feminine Space Performance.” Forum in Women’s and Gender Studies. 113 (2020.10): 82-89.
C. International Conference Papers:
1. Yi-Ping Wu. “The AI influence on the learning passion and progress of students’ assignment accomplishments,” presented at the 8th Eurasian Conference on Educational Innovation 2025, February 7-9, 2025, Bali, Indonesia.
2. Yi-Ping Wu. “Water Ghost Metaphor and Nationalism Declaration in the Women Warriors of Kinmen,” presented at the 2024 AAS-in-Asia Conference, July 9-11, 2024, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
3. Yi-Ping Wu. “The Resistance and Resilience of the Legend of Chen Shou Niang-the Most Ferocious Female Ghost of Taiwan: the Modification and the Formation of Taiwanese Nationalism,” presented at the Annual Conference of North American Taiwan Studies Association, June 22-24, 2023, University of California, Irvine.
4. Yi-Ping Wu. “Another way of performing collective activism in theatre: the embodiment and conflict between theatrical aesthetics and political protest in A Century’s Dark Journey,” presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, July 28-31, 2022, Virtual.
5. Yi-Ping Wu. “Chinese Dream, Chinese Hero: The Wanted Masculine Body and the Unwanted Femininity in the Chinese Films and Media Culture,” presented at the Annual Conference of American Comparative Literature Association, June 16-18, 2022, Virtual.
6. Yi-Ping Wu. “Taiwan as A Silent Island: Comparison of Political Presentation and Theatrical Representation between South Korea And Taiwan on The Issue of Comfort Women,” presented at the Annual Conference of North American Taiwan Studies Association, May 16-18, 2019 Seattle, WA.
7. Yi-Ping Wu. “Comfort Women as A Subject of Political Performance: A Case Study on the Ama Museum,” presented at the Annual Conference of American Society for Theatre Research, November 16-19, 2017 Atlanta, GA.
8. Yi-Ping Wu. “Fighting for Taiwan: Dramaturgies of Political Performances on the issues of the Comfort Women,” presented at the Annual Conference of North American Taiwan Studies Association, May 25-27, 2017 Stanford University, CA.
9. Yi-Ping Wu. “The Legal Transgression and Violent Transformation of the Body of the Comfort Women: An Analysis of Their Body Performance in The Eye Holds the Truth,” presented at the Annual Conference of American Society for Theatre Research, November 3-6, 2016 Minneapolis, MN.
10. Yi-Ping Wu. “Performing the Body in Pain: The Reading of the Comfort Women’s Daily Wartime Routines,” presented at the Annual Conference of Association of Asian Performance, August 9-10, 2016 Chicago, IL.
11. Yi-Ping Wu. “Clytemnestra as conceived by Richard Schechner in Taiwan and Tadashi Suzuki in Japan,” presented at Association for Theatre in Higher Education 29th Annual Conference, July 30-August 2, 2015, Montréal, Canada.
D. Domestic Conference Papers:
1. Wu, Yi-Ping. “Ghost of Authenticity and Nation of Imagination: Water Ghost Metaphor in The Women Warriors of Kinmen” presented at Ming Chuan University 2025 International Academic Symposium, March 14, 2025, Ming Chuan University, Taipei.
2. Wu, Yi-Ping. “The Feminine Body and Body Politics in Women Soldiers,” presented at Ming Chuan University 2024 International Academic Symposium, March 15, 2024, Ming Chuan University, Taipei.
3. “Condensing Glimmers: Research and Teaching Applications of Theatre Electronic Databases,” presented at The Luminous Age: Art/Design/Eternity/From Theory to Application Symposium, June 17, 2022, Han-Jean Digital Library, National Chengchi University.
E. Performing Arts Review Articles:
1. Yi-Ping Wu. “2025 Taiwan Theatre Report: Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining,” January 28, 2026. Taiwan Insight.
2. Yi-Ping Wu. “Taiwan Theatre Report: Chornavirus, Chaos, Challenges, and Changes,” February 28, 2023. Taiwan Insight.
3. Yi-Ping Wu. “How Much Money Could Ghosts Make? A Case Study on the Most Ferocious Female Ghost of Taiwan-Chen Shou Niang,” September 1, 2023. Taiwan Insight.
4. Yi-Ping Wu. “2024 Taiwan Theatre Report: A Grey Area,” January 31, 2025. Taiwan Insight.
5. Wu, Yi-Ping. “Your Protagonist Is Not Your Protagonist: Liang Hongyu in Blue Robe and Silver Armor,” PAR Performing Arts Review, August 15, 2022.
6. Wu, Yi-Ping. “Mother, Daughter, Role Amplification: Séance,” PAR Performing Arts Review, August 4, 2022.
7. Wu, Yi-Ping. “Singing the Song of Life, Performing the Dream of Youth: The Women sing Folk Songs,” PAR Performing Arts Review, July 28, 2022.
8. Wu, Yi-Ping. “Greatness in the Ordinary: Father Mother,” PAR Performing Arts Review, May 26, 2022.
9. Wu, Yi-Ping. “Those Women Who Don’t Write Poetry: Taipei Poet,” PAR Performing Arts Review, May 10, 2022.
10. Wu, Yi-Ping. “Contemporary Taiwan’s Maritime Dream Imagination: Zheng Zhilong: The Pirate King of Formosa,” PAR Performing Arts Review, May 9, 2022.
11. Wu, Yi-Ping. “An Outstanding First Step in the Youth Self-Creation Series: Apartment,” PAR Performing Arts Review, April 18, 2022.
12. Wu, Yi-Ping. “Neither Human nor Ghost: Red Demon,” PAR Performing Arts Review, March 31, 2022.
13. Wu, Yi-Ping. “Everyone Is Pan Jin-Lian—What When The Lotus Blooms Taught Me,” PAR Performing Arts Review, March 22, 2022.
14. Wu, Yi-Ping. “Daily Life in Seven Windows: Seven Lives,” PAR Performing Arts Review, March 7, 2022.
15. Wu, Yi-Ping. “The Pain of History, the Body Remembers: A Century’s Dark Journey,” PAR Performing Arts Review, February 7, 2022.
16. Wu, Yi-Ping. “Where Did She Come From, and Where Should Peking Opera Go? Women’s Gaze in the Three Kingdoms,” PAR Performing Arts Review, January 27, 2022.
17. Wu, Yi-Ping. “Nostalgia for the Old: 2021 Old House Project Glimmers vol.2: Home,” PAR Performing Arts Review, December 30, 2021.
18. Wu, Yi-Ping. “A Veteran and His Wife’s Marriage Story: 24 Hours Before the Moon Landing,” PAR Performing Arts Review, December 21, 2021.
19. Wu, Yi-Ping. “One Koxinga, Different Interpretations: The Dream of Koxinga,” PAR Performing Arts Review, December 13, 2021.
20. Wu, Yi-Ping. “No Seagull and No Confrontation? The Seagull and Their Stories,” PAR Performing Arts Review, December 1, 2021.
21. Wu, Yi-Ping. “Phaedra and Phaedra: A Dream of Passion—Or Rather, A Straight Ball Confrontation Between a Straight Man and a Black Lotus!” PAR Performing Arts Review, November 19, 2021.
22. Wu, Yi-Ping. “A Commissioned Essay Stuffed with Too Many Ideas: Mysterious Notes,” PAR Performing Arts Review, November 17, 2021.
23. Wu, Yi-Ping. “How Do We Remember Those Forgotten,” PAR Performing Arts Review, November 11, 2021.
24. Wu, Yi-Ping. “The Divine Manipulation of Divine Manipulation,” PAR Performing Arts Review, October 22, 2021.
25. Wu, Yi-Ping. “Ten Years of Taiwan Dream, A Thousand Years of Peking Opera on Stage: A Thousand Years on Stage, Yet I Have Never Quite Lived,” PAR Performing Arts Review, April 21, 2021.
26. Wu, Yi-Ping. “The Dramatization of Feminine Writing in Women Are Made of Water,” PAR Performing Arts Review, October 23, 2020.
F. Other Publications
Yi-Ping Wu. Comfort Women. Encyclopedia of Taiwan Studies. Leiden: Brill. 2025.
G. Courses Instructed:
Communication Theory, Research Methods, Performance Studies, Theatre Introduction, Art Introduction, Theatre Introduction (EMI), Playwriting, Film Criticism, Film Scoring, Film and Television Aesthetics, Film and Television Cultural and Creative Industries, Special Topics in Cultural and Creative Industries, Film and Television Media and Culture, Video Game and Animation Studies, Song Lyrics and Appreciation
H. Master’s and Doctoral Thesis Supervision:
1. Emotionally Driven, Self-awareness, and Mirror to Reality: Exploring Urban Emotional Drama Fake it till you make it from the Perspective of Reception
Aesthetics. Ming Chuan University/Graduate Institute of New Media and. Communication Research/2024/Master’s/Student: Wu Jing-Ru
2. An Exploration of Intertextuality in New Media: A Case Study of WOLF(S). Ming Chuan University/Graduate Institute of New Media and Communication Research/2024/Master’s/Student: Yang Duen-Ju.
3. Analysing The Little Nyonya: Cultural Integration and Gender Issues of Baba Nyonya in Nanyang. Ming Chuan University/Graduate Institute of New Media and Communication Research/2022/Master’s/Student: Ong Sin-Yee.
I. National Science and Technology Council Undergraduate Research Project Supervision:
114-2813-C-130-001-H Secrets Yet Proud: The Changing Narrative of Taiwan’s
GL Dramas under the Homosexual Gaze. Student: Shui Ting-Chi.