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Jeon Seung Hee is a literary scholar and critic as well as a leading translator of Korean literature. Her research interests include modern and contemporary Korean literature and culture, and she has published articles on war trauma, memories, and truths. Her translations include the 2016 Man Booker Prizewinning novelist Han Kang’s Convalescence (2013) and Bang Hyeon-seok’s fiction Time to Eat Lobster (2016), which was selected for “75 Notable Translations of the Year” by World Literature Today, as well as Shaheen Akhtar’s The Search, which won the 3rd Asian Literature Award in 2020. She has been honored with a Fulbr ight Grant, a Korea Foundation Fellowship, and two Daesan Foundation Translation grants. Based in both Boston and Seoul, she is an associate professor in Korean at Boston College.