Background
Chang was born to father Chang Wang-rok (hangul: 장왕록), a noted scholar of English literature, and mother Yi Gil-ja (Hangul: 이길자) in Seoul in 1952.
Chang was born to father Chang Wang-rok (hangul: 장왕록), a noted scholar of English literature, and mother Yi Gil-ja (Hangul: 이길자) in Seoul in 1952.
She majored in English literature at Sogang University and finished her undergraduate and graduate studies in 1975 and 1977.
When she was one year old, she suffered poliomyelitis, which caused paralysis of both legs and right arm. She received a doctoral degree from State University of New York at Buffalo in 1985 with the thesis titled Journeys between Real and the Ideal. Since 1985, Chang had worked as a professor at the department of English literature, Sogang University.
She wrote columns for of Korea Times and JoongAng Ilbo respectively since 1987 and 2001.
Chang also had served as an executive director and editor for the of Korea Hawthorne Society since 1995 and the of Korea Mark Twain Society since 2003. After being diagnosed as having breast cancer in 2001, Chang had two surgeries and chemotherapy to remove the tumor.
However, Chang died of spinal cancer at Yonsei Severance Hospital on May 9, 2009. lieutenant was metastasized from breast cancer after her eight years" struggling against the disease.
Disability as Metaphor in American Literature (은유로서의 신체장애: 미국문학의 경우) (July, 2001) (Korean), The American Studies Association of of Korea
Still on the Trail: Emerson, Thoreau, and Failure of Transcendentalism, (December, 2002), of Korea Hawthorne Society
Huckleberry Finns Dual Vision:A Journey towards Ishmaelian Equal Eye, The Korean Society Of British And American Fiction 근대영미소설학회/2003.10
Korean Sources & References in Jack Londons, (December, 2003), The Star Rover, The American Studies Association of of Korea.