Mary Chapman is a Professor of English at UBC and was the founding Academic Director of UBC’s Public Humanities Hub. Her recent work has focused on the Eatons, a Chinese Canadian family of authors, screenwriters, journalists and artists based in late nineteenth-century Montreal. Chapman’s Becoming “Sui Sin Far”: Early Fiction, Journalism and Travel Writing by Edith Maude Eaton was awarded the Chinese Canadian Historical Society’s Edgar Wickberg Book Prize for best book in Chinese Canadian History as well as the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association’s Susan Koppelman Prize for best non-monograph on Feminist Popular Cultural Studies. Last year, she and her students curated an exhibition “Early Chinese in Montreal|Les Premiers Chinois à Montréal|蒙特利爾的早期華人,” Chinatown House, Montreal. Her current book project is a biography of Edith Eaton/Sui Sin Far and her amazing mother, Achuen Amoy, who toured the world with a Chinese acrobatic troupe in the 1850s.