University of Lethbridge

About Me

Biodata for Maria N. Ng

Maria N. Ng is associate professor in English Literature at the University of Lethbridge, Canada, and the author of Three Exotic Views of Southeast Asia: The Travel Narratives of Isabella Bird, Max Dauthendey, and Ai Wu 1850-1930 (New York: EastBridge, 2002) as well as essays on Chinese Canadian culture and writing.In 2006, she co-edited Reading Chinese Transnationalisms: Society, Literature, Film with Philip Holden (Hong Kong UP). Ng received her Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia and was the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta (1999-2002). She researches transnationalism and literature; popular culture, sports, and gender constructions; life writing and women's writing. She was given a Canada Council for the Arts Grant for Professional Writers to write her autobiography: Pilgrimages: Memories of Colonial Macau and Hong Kong (Hong Kong University Press 2009).
Ng finished From Paris to Istanbul, a collection of essays on travelling, and is working on a book on immigrant mothers, for which she has been awarded her second Canada Council for the Arts for Professional Writers grant.
Ng is University Scholar, Humanities, 2011-2013.

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Selected Publications

Books (published)


• Pilgrimages: Memories of Colonial Macau and British Hong Kong. 179 ms. pages. Hong Kong University Press, 2009.

• Reading Chinese Transnationalisms: Society, Literature, Film. Eds. Maria N. Ng and Philip Holden. Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong P. /UBC P, 2006.

• Three Exotic Views of Southeast Asia: The Travel Narratives of Isabella Bird, Max Dauthendey, and Ai Wu 1850-1930. New York: EastBridge, 2002.


Books (forthcoming)

From Paris to Istanbul. A book on travel, travel writing, and the Orient Express.

Chapters in Books (Published)


• "Transcultural Capital: Central Europe and the Pacific Rim." A Transatlantic Gathering: Essays in Honour of Peter Stenberg. Eds. Thomas Salumets and Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz. München: Iudicium Verlag, 2007. 167-75.

• "Introduction." Reading Chinese Transnationalisms: Society, Literature, Film. Co-writer: Philip Holden. Eds. Maria N. Ng and Philip Holden. Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong P. 2006. 1-13.

• "Abusive Mothers: Literary Representations of the Mother Figure by Three Ethnic Chinese Writers." Asian Connections. Eds. Tineke Hellwig and Sunera Thobani. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 2006. 139-60.

• "The Taming of the Oriental Shrew: The Two Asias in Puccini's Madama Butterfly and Turandot." A Vision of the Orient: Texts, Contexts, and Intertexts of Madama Butterfly. Eds. Jonathan Wisenthal et al. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2006. 170-80.

• "Out Fighting or Staying at Home: The Challenge of Representing the East Asian Male." Violence and Transgression in World Minority Literatures. Ed. Karin Ikas. Heidelberg: University Press Winter, 2005. 339-412.

• "Women Out of Fleeting Place: Hotel Living in Mavis Gallant's Short Stories." Transient Questions: Essays on the Writing of Mavis Gallant. Ed. Kristjana Gunnars. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004. 93-110.


Journal Articles (published)

• "'Postcolonial' Travel and Writing as Transgressive Practices." Journal of Postcolonial Cultures and Societies. 2:1&2 (2011): 103-123.

• "Mapping the Diasporic Self." Canadian Literature. Special Issue: Diaspora 196 (Spring 2008): 34-45.

• "A Colonial Education." Samyukta: A Journal of Women's Studies. 7:2 (Fall 2007): 148-154.

• "Warriors in Flight: The War Novels of John Buchan." Canadian Literature 179 (Winter 2003): 188-92.

• "Representing Chinatown: Dr. Fu-Manchu at the Disappearing Moon Café." Canadian Literature 163 (Winter 1999): 157-75.

• "Chop Suey Writing: Sui Sin Far, Wayson Choy, and Judy Fong Bates." Essays on Canadian Writing 65 (Fall 1998): 171-86.
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Research Interests

Postcolonialism, transnationalism, life writing, women's writing, gender constructions, travel writing

Current Research and Creative Activity

Title	Location	Grant Information	Principal Investigator	Co Researchers
Autobiographies of my Mother & Other Immigrant Women (Life Writing)		University Scholar, 2011 - 2013. ULRF, 2012.	Maria Ng

Previous Research

Title	Grant Agency	Completion Date
"Memoir of Hong Kong 1950s – 1960s"	Canada Council for the Arts for Professional Writers	2007