Shiuhhuah Serena Chou
Shiuhhuah Serena Chou has been writing, theorizing, and researching organic farming literature and culture as a re-worlding practice since 2005. She is currently working on her monograph on transpacific agricultural literary environmentalism while growing chives, asparagus, mulberries, and gourds sustainability at her office eco-rooftop garden in Taipei along with 23 colleagues in the Farm for Change project. This community farm that she and her team founded in 2019 is called Chung Chung Kan (種種看) or, literally, “let's try to farm.” Farming in Taiwan's most prestigious research center as perpetual beginners, Chung Chung Kan is becoming a radical site that aims to test out popular understandings of “organic,” “cultivation,” “urban farming, and “farming as spirituality.” Chung Chung Kan participants are also encouraging words and themes that embody the ethos and tactics of world-building and care-giving practices.
Email: sschou.academia@gmail.com