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| Name | Leilei Chen |
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| Location | Edmonton, Alberta |
| Biography | Leilei Chen is an instructor, writer, and literary translator. She wrote Re-orienting China: Travel Writing and Cross-cultural Understanding (University of Regina Press, 2016). She translated Steven Grosby's Nationalism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press) into Mandarin (Nanjing Yilin Press, 2017; Oxford University Press in Hongkong, 2020). Her memoir/travel writing, essays, and poetry translations appear in Home: Stories Connecting Us All (2017) and Looking Back, Moving Forward (Mawenzi House, Toronto, 2019), The Polyglot, TransCulturAL: A Journal of Translation and Cultural Studies, Literary Review of Canada, Women of China, The Chinese Journal, and Latitude 53. She teaches at the University of Alberta. |
| Publications | (Selected) Monograph & Literary Translations _____ãã________Oxford University Press (Hong Kong), 2020. _____ãã________________2017__Translated from Nationalism: A Very Short Introduction by Steven Grosby (Oxford University Press). Re-Orienting China: Travel Writing and Cross-cultural Understanding. Regina: University of Regina Press. 2016. Refereed Journal Articles __________ãã_________, Translated from –Medical Advancement and Female Fame: Inoculation and After-effect.” Lumen: Selected Proceedings from the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. vol. 13, 1994, 13-42. _____August 2020. –Translation as Co-creation with the Author.” TranscUlturAl: A Journal of Translation and Cultural Studies. Forthcoming in June 2020. _____________Mandarin translation of –The Story of Maggie Happyjack and Simon Etapp of Waswanipi” in The Sweet Bloods of Eeyou Istchee: Stories of Diabetes and the James Bay Cree. TranscUlturAl: A Journal of Translation and Cultural Studies. Forthcoming in June 2020. –Three Poems by Ma Hui and English Translations.” Translated from __________________________2012_5__TranscUlturAl: A Journal of Translation and Cultural Studies. September 2020. Anthologies and Book Chapters –Food Ties.” Beyond the Food Cour: An Anthology of Literary Cuisines. Ed. Luciana Erregue. Laberinto Press, October 2020. –Life Begins at Forty.” Looking Back, Moving Forward. Ed. Julie Robinson. Toronto: Mawenzi House. 2018. –Cleaning Sarahês Room.” Home: Stories Connecting Us All. Ed. Tololwa M. Mollel. Edmonton, Alberta: Embracing Multicultural Community Development, 2017. 67-69. Introduction to The Bedevilled Age by Genji Jiao_____________Edmonton, Alberta: The Culture Exchange. 2016. Book Reviews Kuhen, Julia and Paul Smethurst. New Directions in Travel Writing. In ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 49. 3 (July 2018). 284-286. Magazine, Newspapers, Pamphlet –That Woman,” –Eagleês Contempt,” –Snowflakes Fly in the Sky, Making it Light.” The Ployglot. October 2019. 62-63. Poetry. Translated from __________________________2012_5__ISBN 978-7-5502-7942-1. 2 pages. Re-orienting China: A Chinese Canadian Scholarês Book That Promotes Cross-cultural Understanding. Women of China. April 2017. Global Travel and a Sustainable Future. University of Albertaês 2017 International Week. January 30-February 3, 2017. Response to Patrick Brownês review of Alexandre Trudeauês Barbarian Lost: Travels in New China, Literary Review of Canada 35.9 (November 2016). 32. |
| Awards | 2020 Short-listed for the Confederation Alberta Faculty Association (CAFA) Distinguished Teaching Award 2017 Community Service Learning Teaching Grant, University of Alberta |
| Experience | Building literary translators' Community in western Canada, 2020 Multicultural Writing Forum Series. April 2018; September 2019 14th, 15th, 16th St Jerome Translation Conference, 2016-2018 Edmonton Arts Council Mock Jury Workshop, April 2018 Edmonton Arts Council Grants Application Workshop, 2018 Writersê Guild of Alberta retreat, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Feb 2018. Writers Guild of Alberta Annual Conference, University of Alberta, June 10, 2017. Attend the webinar of Angie Abdouês workshop on creative nonfiction, Jan. 2017. LitFest: Edmontonês Nonfiction Festival, 2008 _ 2019. |
| Memberships | « Literary Translatorsê Association of Canada (LTAC) « Writersê Guild of Alberta (WGA) « Association of Canadian College and University of English (ACCUTE) |
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