Yi Ruofen

I Lo-fen (Chinese: 衣若芬; pinyin: Yi Ruofen; born 26 October 1964 in Taipei) is a Taiwanese scholar and writer. She received her Chinese Literature Ph.D. from National Taiwan University. She has been an associate professor in the Division of Chinese in Nanyang Technological University’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences since July 2006, and is the current Head of the Division (2014-). She is also a column writer of Singapore Lianhe Zaobao (2007-), and had formerly committed in institutes like the National Taiwan University, Tamkang University, Fu Jen Catholic University, and the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy at Academia Sinica. In addition, she was also a visiting professor in the East Asian Institute at Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea. Her research interests include the relationship between Chinese poetry and visual art, interchange of East-Asian culture and classical Chinese literature, and Su Shi studies. By integrating the history of Chinese literature and arts, she has accomplished a series of researches on poems in paintings and poetic imagery. She then proposed the idea of the “Study of Text and Image”(文图学) and focused on the relations, comparison and intertextuality between poems and paintings. From there, she has established her literary theory in arts creation and culture of aesthetics.