M.A. National Dong-Hua University

Ph. D. National Sun Yat-sen University

Dr. Po-Yu Rick Wei is a Lecture in English at Wenzhou-Kean University. Wei received his Ph. D degree in English literature from National Sun Yat-sen University. Wei has been teaching and studying English the language and English literature for more than a decade. Not seeing himself only as a lecturer, Wei, with hobbies including traveling, collecting vinyls, and buying second hand books, also sees himself as a lifelong writer and reader.

Eighteenth-century English literature

History, culture, society, and literature of English Regency period

Jane Austen study

“Mothers at Cards: Motherhood and Gaming in Two Late Georgian English Novels.” Taming Review 51.1 (December 2020): 149-173.

(https://www.airitilibrary.com/Publication/alDetailedMesh?DocID=00492949-202012-202103300002-202103300002-149-173&PublishTypeID)

“’It’s All the Same What I Eat’: Jane Austen’s Dietary Philosophy.” Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Cultural Studies 31.1 (Jun 2021): 19-41.

(https://iupress.istanbul.edu.tr/en/journal/litera/article/its-all-the-same-what-i-eat-jane-austens-dietary-philosophy)

“Shaking a Dice Box: Female Gamesters in Late Eighteenth-Century English Anti-Gaming Plays.” Review of English and American Literature 40 (Summer 2022): 83-109.

(https://www.airitilibrary.com/Publication/alDetailedMesh?DocID=10242856-202206-202207140002-202207140002-83-109&PublishTypeID=P001)

First Prize, Sizihwan Bay Literary Prize, Category of Short Fiction (“The Doughnut War”)

ENG 1300 Composition

ENG 3090 Business and Professional Writing

ENG 2040 World Literature