衣若芬,台湾大学中国文学博士。现任教于新加坡南洋理工大学人文学院。博士生导师。曾任中文系系主任。新加坡《联合早报》专栏作家。新加坡注册社团文图学会创始人暨现任会长。中国苏轼学会理事。四川师范大学三苏文化研究院学术咨询委员。韩国全球文化内容学会国际理事。
曾经任职台湾大学、辅仁大学、中央研究院中国文哲研究所。受邀于美国斯坦福大学、韩国成均馆大学客座讲学授课。应邀于韩国外国语大学、首尔大学、日本国立奈良女子大学、东京大学、中国人民大学、北京大学、南京大学等校讲学。中国中央电视台大型人文记录片《苏东坡》海外讲述人。规画主持多个大型国际合作项目。制作主持播客”有此衣说”和Youtube.Bilibili节目。
文学创作荣获台湾大学新诗奖。学术研究荣获中央研究院年轻学者研究著作奖、国科会吴大猷先生学术成就奖、新加坡国家艺术理事会出版奖助。教学荣获南洋理工大学许文辉学术奖。John Cheung Social Media Award。
研究领域为文图学、东亚汉文学与文化交流、新加坡文史艺术、苏轼研究。
出版学术专书13本,主编及合编论著12本,期刊和专书论文超过160篇。小说和散文创作18本。最近出版著作包括
《自爱自在:苏东坡的生活哲学》(北京:天地出版社,2023年)。
《星洲创意:文本.传媒.图像新加坡》(新加坡:八方文化创作室,2023年)(荣获2023年新加坡《联合早报》年度十大好书选)。
《畅叙幽情:文图学诗画四重奏》(杭州:西泠印社,2022年。入选南京大学”世界文学与图像名著精义十种”之一)
《倍万自爱:学着苏东坡爱自己,享受快意人生》(台北:有鹿文化,2021年)(荣获2021年《联合早报》十大好书选)
《陪你去看苏东坡》(台北:有鹿文化,2020年。北京:商务印书馆,2021年)(博客来2020年华文创作畅销书年度第11名。荣获2020年《联合早报》十大年度好书。2022年四川名人大讲堂15本苏东坡主题书单第5名)
《书艺东坡》(上海:上海古籍出版社,2019年) (2019年美术史十大好书。2021年中华书局伯鸿书香奖精选50本东坡主题专著之一)
《春光秋波:看見文圖學》(南京:南京大学出版社,2020年)。
《南洋风华:艺文.广告.跨界新加坡》(新加坡:八方文化创作室,2016年) (新加坡国家艺术理事会出版赞助。荣获2016年《联合早报》年度好书)
I Lo-fen(https://lofen.net)
Dr. I Lo-Fen faculty at the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and is a columnist for Lianhe Zaobao. She is also Founder and Honorary President of the Text and Image Studies Society in Singapore, board member of the China Su Shi Studies Society, and international board member of the Academic Association of Global Cultural Contents.
She once worked at National Taiwan University, Fu Jen Catholic University, and the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy of Academia Sinica. Invited to teach at Stanford University in the United States and Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea. Invited to lecture at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul National University, Nara Women’s University, Tokyo University, Renmin University of China, Peking University, Nanjing University, etc. Overseas narrator of China Central Television’s humanities documentary “Su Dongpo”.Planned and hosted multiple international cooperation projects. Producer and host podcast “Lofen says” and her channel of Youtube and Bilibili.
Literary creation won the National Taiwan University Modern Poetry Writing Award. Academic research won the Academia Sinica Research Award for Junior Research Investigators, and Excellent Research Award of Wu Da-You Foundation, National Science Council, Taiwan. Singapore National Arts Council Publication Grants. Teaching won Koh Boon Hwee Scholars Award of Nanyang Technological University. John Cheung Social Media Award.
Her research expertise lies in Text and Image Studies, Su Shi (Su Dongpo) studies, East Asian literature and intercultural exchanges in Classical Chinese, and Singapore literature, history, and arts studies.
She has published 13 academic books, more than 160 academic journals and articles, and has edited or co-edited 12 books. She has also written 18 novels and anthologies of prose.
Her recent publications include:
Self-regard and Freedom: The Life Philosophy of Su Dongpo”(Beijing: Tiandi Press,2023)
Creative Nanyang: Text, Media, Image Singapore (Singapore: Global Publishing, 2023). (Best 10 books of 2023 selected by Lianhe Zaobao)
Free Our Most Hidden Feelings: Quartet of Text and Image Studies (Hangzhou: Xiling Seal Art Society, 2022)
Dear Me: Learn Self-Love from Su Dongpo, Delight in Life (Taipei: Route Culture,2021). (Best 10 books of 2021 selected by Lianhe Zaobao )
Bringing You Through the Journey of Su Dongpo(Taipei: Route Culture, 2020) (Beijing: The Commercial Press, 2021).( Best 10 books of 2020 selected by Lianhe Zaobao. Top Five of Su Shi topic books by Sichuan Celebrity Lecture Hall,2021)
The Art of Su Dongpo’s Calligraphy (Shanghai: Shanghai Chinese Classics Publishing House, 2019). (Best 10 books of Art History in 2019. One of the best 50 Su Shi Studies books selected by Bo Hong Book Award of Zhonghua Book Company, China)
Through the Ages: Encountering Text and Image Studies(Nanjing: Nanjing University Press, 2020)
Gorgeous Nanyang: Arts, Advertisements, Crossover Singapore (Singapore: Global Publishing, 2016). (Funded by Singapore National Art Council, Presentation & Participation Grant) (Selected One of the Best Books by Lainhe Zaobao, 2016)
My CV and selected publication list