A professor at National Taiwan Normal University’s (NTNU) Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages and Literature (TCLL), Nikky Lin obtained her PhD in Taiwan Literature from National Cheng Kung University and has previously worked as a research fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies in the Netherlands. The former Director of the National Museum of Taiwan Literature and Chair of TCLL. She is currently the Executive Director of NTNU’s International Taiwan Studies Center. In addition to her research and teaching, which focus primarily on the literature and culture of Taiwan, Lin is also one of the main editors of Springer’s Sinophone and Taiwan Studies Series and Cambria Press’ Taiwan Literature Series. Her publications include Philosophical Poet of Formosa: Heng-tai Lin and journal articles in Boundary 2, Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, Chung-wai Literary Monthly, NTU Studies in Taiwan Literature, NTU Humanitas Taiwanica, Journal of Taiwan Literary Studies, Bulletin of Taiwanese Literature, and Taiwan Historical Research.