Chang Young-hee

Jang Yeong-hui was a South Korean professor, scholar, translator, and essayist.

Biography

Chang was born to father Chang Wang-rok, a noted scholar of English literature, and mother Yi Gil-ja in Seoul in 1952. When she was one year old, she suffered poliomyelitis, which caused paralysis of both legs and right arm.
She read English literature at Sogang University and finished her undergraduate and graduate studies in 1975 and 1977. She received a doctoral degree from University at Buffalo, [The State University of New York|State University of New York] at Albany in 1985 with the thesis titled Journeys between Real and the Ideal. Since 1985, Chang had worked as a professor at the department of English literature, Sogang University. She wrote columns for The Korea Times and JoongAng Ilbo respectively since 1987 and 2001. Chang also had served as an executive director and editor for the Korea Hawthorne Society since 1995 and the Korea Mark Twain Society since 2003.
After being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2001, Chang had two surgeries and chemotherapy to remove the tumour. However, Chang died of spinal cancer at Yonsei Severance Hospital on May 9, 2009. It was meyastasised from breast cancer after her eight years' struggling against the disease.

Disability as Metaphor in American Literature , The American Studies Association of Korea
Still on the Trail: Emerson, Thoreau, and Failure of Transcendentalism,, Korea Hawthorne Society
The City as Psyche in The Scarlet Letter and Sister Carrie, Korea Hawthorne Society, The American Fiction Association of Korea
Huckleberry Finns Dual Vision:A Journey towards Ishmaelian Equal Eye, The Korean Society Of British And American Fiction 근대영미소설학회/2003.10
Korean Sources & References in Jack Londons,, The Star Rover, The American Studies Association of Korea

1981 Korean literature translation prize, award hosted by Hankook Ilbo
March, 2002, This year's writing, awarded by National Cultural Movement Headquarters올해의 문장상/국민문화운동본부
December, 2005 the 10th Proud Sogang alumni award by Sogang University Alumni Association