• Nick Hui-Han Chen
• BA, Class of 2015
• PhD student, Department of Film Studies, University of Birmingham, UK

After graduating from Taipei Tech, Mr. Chen went on to finish his Master of Arts by Research in 2016 at University of Birmingham and continued on to the PhD program in Film Studies a year later. His research interests lie in European, Hispanic, and Taiwanese Slow-Cinema with the theoretical frameworks of Deleuzian and Bergsonian discourse. His thesis examines the emergence of transnational slow cinema, the dynamics between its widely believed European predecessors, and its phenomenology of transcending its geographical specificity of local culture and value to reaching wider international audience. Apart from English language and communication skills acquired at Taipei Tech’s Department of English, the literature and film courses and the one-year individual roject he conducted are essential foundations for the postgraduate study that he has been pursuing.