Scott E. Myers

Visiting Professor

Scott E. Myers teaches Chinese-English written translation and sight translation. He holds master's degrees in Chinese translation from the Monterey Institute and in comparative literature from New York University. His main area of interest is literary translation. His translation of the diary of a Walmart worker in China appears in Walmart in China, an edited volume from Cornell University Press. Recently, UCLA-based Amerasia Journal published an excerpt of his translation of Beijing Comrades, a contemporary novel by Bei Tong. When he is not teaching or translating, his research focuses on countercultural movements in mainland China and beyond.