CV

Education

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY

Ph.D. (October 2016) in modern Korean and comparative literature from the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society

Professional Experience

Dept of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

Assistant Professor of Korean Studies (July 2018 – present)

Associate Chair and Director of Graduate Studies (July 2024 – present)

Coordinator, Korean Program (Fall 2019 – present)

Advisor, Korean Major, Minor, and Study Abroad (Fall 2018 – present)

Korean Studies Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Academy of Korean Studies Postdoctoral Fellow (August 2017 – July 2018)

Nam Center for Korean Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow (September 2016 – August 2017)

Publications

Books and Chapters

Interference/Interface: Broadcast Sound in the Divided Koreas. Manuscript in progress.

Triangle Republics: Cross-Border Reading and Writing in the Postcolonial Koreas and Japan. In contract with Columbia University Press.

“Closed Borders and Open Letters in the Postcolonial Koreas,” in Routledge Companion to Korean Literature, ed. Heekyoung Cho (New York: Routledge, 2022), 427-440.

Edited Volumes

Writing the Korean Revolution in Japan: Fiction from the Chongryun Community, 1950s-1990s. Volume of translations with critical introduction to be included in the Three || Eight Series, University of Michigan Press. To be in press by 2025.

Refereed Articles

“In the Southern Half of Our Republic: Cross-Border Writing and Performance in 1960s North Korea,” Journal of Asian Studies vol. 81 no. 1 (February 2022): 81-100.

“Reading Seoul in Pyongyang: Cross-Border Mediascapes in Early-Cold War North Korea,” Journal of Korean Studies vol. 26 no. 2 (October 2021): 325-348.

“‘Antagonistic Unity’: Kim Oseong, Dialectical Anthropology, and the Discovery of Literature, 1929-1938,” Review of Korean Studies vol. 16 no. 2 (December 2013): 81-124.

Refereed Translations

“Red Hill.” Translation of Ha Kŭnch’an, “Pulgŭn ŏndŏk,” with critical introduction. In Island Ablaze and Other Stories: The US Empire in North and South Korean Literatures, ed. Ruth Barraclough, Kim Jae-yong, Jin-kyung Lee, and Lee Sang-gyong (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, forthcoming 2022).

“Liberation-era Street Politics and the Production of Representation.” Translation of Ch’ŏn Chŏnghwan, “Haebanggi kŏri ŭi chŏngch’i wa p’yosang ŭi saengsan.” In Toward Democracy: South Korean Culture and Society, 1945–1980, eds. Hyunjoo Kim, Yerim Kim, Bodurae Kwon, Hyeroung Lee, and Theodore Jun Yoo (Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies Press, 2021), 15-39.

Other Translations

“Trolley Driver.” Translation of Kim Yŏngsŏk, “Chŏnch’a unjŏnsu,” with critical introduction. In Rat Fire: Korean Stories from the Japanese Empire, ed. Theodore Hughes, Kim Jae-yong, Jin-kyung Lee, and Lee Sang-gyong (Ithaca: Cornell East Asia Series, 2013), 377-392.

Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

Teaching and Research

Academy of Korean Studies, Research Fellowship (2021-2022)

Carolina Asia Center, Special Course Development Grant for Internationalization (Spring 2021)

UNC Office of Undergraduate Research, Research-Related Skills Course Development Grant (AY 2020-2021)

UNC Institute for Arts and Humanities, Schwab Academic Excellence Award (December 2020)

UNC Office of Undergraduate Research, Graduate Research Consultant Funding Recipient (Spring 2020)

Postdoctoral Research

AKS Postdoctoral Fellowship, Korean Studies Institute, University of Southern California (August 2017 – July 2018)

Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, Nam Center for Korean Studies, University of Michigan (September 2016 – August 2017)

Graduate Studies

Columbia University Teaching Scholars Program Fellowship (2015–2016)

KK Columbia University Graduate Fellowship in Korean Studies (2014–2015)

Fulbright/IIE Fellowship (March 2013–December 2013)

Korea Foundation Fellowship for Field Research (October 2012–February 2013)

U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (2011–2012)

Columbia University Presidential Fellowship (2009–2010)

Post-Baccalaureate Studies

Korea Foundation Korean Language Training Fellowship (2008–2009)