Beibei Chen holds a PhD in English from The University of New South Wales and now works as a lecturer in the Department of English at East China Normal University. Her research interests include Australian literature, Chinese diasporic literature, cultural studies and memory studies. She has published academic papers in literary journals such as Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Westerly and Australian Cultural Studies. She is also a poet, with more than 80 poems published in Chinese and in English, and a part-time translator, with translations published by Routledge and others.