I Lo-fen (; born 26 October 1964, in Taipei)[1] 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 was the Head of the Division (2014-2016). She 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 at Stanford University in the United States and East Asian Institute at Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea.[2] Her research expertise lies in Text and Image Studies, Su Shi studies, East Asian literature and intercultural exchanges in Classical Chinese, and Singapore literature, history, and arts studies.[3] She is also a board member of the China Su Shi Studies Society, and an international board member of the Korea Society of East Asian Comparative Literature. She is the Founder and Honorary President of the "Text and Image Studies Society"(文图学会) that was official registered in Singapore on 18 December 2017. 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 “Text and Image Studies”(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.[4] She is also a column writer of Singapore Lianhe Zaobao (2007-), and she hosts podcast "Lofen says".
(Through the Ages: Encountering Text and Image Studies, Nanjing University Press, 2020)
(Bringing You Through the Journey of Su Dongpo, Route Culture, 2020)
(The Art of Su Dongpo's Calligraphy, Shanghai Chinese Classics Publishing House, 2019)
(Observing the Synergy: Text and Image Studies and Asia Horizon, Singapore: Global Publishing, 2019)
(Gorgeous Nanyang: Arts, Advertisements, Crossover Singapore, Singapore: Global Publishing, 2016)
(Of Cloud Shadows and Celestial Light: Poems and Paintings of the Landscape of Xiao Xiang, Taipei: Li Ren Shu Ju, 2013)
(Exploration of Art, Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 2012)
(Intextuality and Citationality in Chinese Literature and Art, Taipei: Li Ren Shu Ju, 2011)
(The Poetry, Paintings and Calligraphy of Zheng Banqiao, Taipei: Hua Mu Lan Publisher, 2009)
(Observation, Description, Appreciation: Studies of Tang-Song Writings on Painting, Taipei: Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, 2004)
(Wandering Under the Red Cliffs and Elegant Gathering in the Western Garden: Studies on Su Shi, Beijing: Xian Zhuang Shu Ju, 2001)
(A History of Su Shi Studies, co-authored with Zeng Zaozhuang, Nanjing: Jiangsu Education Publisher, 2001)
(Historical Transitions and Creativity: Literature and Art in the Han-Tang and Tang-Song Transitions, co-edited with Liu Yuan-ju, Taipei: Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, 2000)
(Su Shi's Literary Works on Paintings, Taipei: Wen Chin Publisher, 1999)