Publications

Selected Writing

• Research. “Politics of Literary Materiality: Yun Ihyŏng and Postmillennial South Korean Literature,” Journal of Korean Studies 27, no. 2 (October 2022): 329-352.
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• Research. “Vitalism and Existentialism in Early South Korean Literature,” in The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature, ed. Heekyoung Cho (New York: Routledge, 2022), 316-329. >>Download.

• Research. “Early South Korean Modernist Poetry: A Genealogy,” Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture 13 (May 2020): 245-288. >>Download (poetry translations included).

• Research. “Maps of Life and Abjection: Reportage, Photography, and Literature in Postwar Seoul,” Journal of Asian Studies 79, no. 2 (May 2020): 335-375. >>Download.

• Critical introduction. “Distant Poetry: Rethinking Modern Korean Poetry within Area Studies,” co-authored with Benoit Berthelier, Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture 13 (May 2020): 183-196. (Introduction to the co-edited special issue, “Modern Korean Poetry: Boundary, Dissension, Traversal.”) >>Download.

• Book Review (Novel Translation). “Dystopia is Everywhere,” review of Hye-young Pyun’s novel City of Ash and Red (2018) for Boston Review, February 14, 2019.

• Book Review (Scholarly Monograph). Christopher P. Hanscom’s Impossible speech: politics of representation in contemporary Korean literature and film (Columbia University Press 2024) for Asian Studies Review, July 22, 2024. >>Download.

• Book Review (Scholarly Monograph). Jung Joon Lee’s Shooting for Change: Korean Photography After the War (Duke University Press 2024) for Journal of Asian Studies, May 2025. >>Download.

• Book Review (Poetry Translation). “Paranoid Wonder,” review of Yi Sang’s Selected Works (Wave Books 2020) for Asymptote Journal, October 31, 2020.

• Book Review (Novel Translation). “The Secret Outside Us,” review of Bae Suah’s Untold Night and Day (Harry N. Abrams 2020) for Asymptote Journal, November 21, 2020.

• Fiction. “How Harold Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Han,” Apogee Journal Issue 1, June 2012, pp. 38-44.

Selected Translations

• Research. Hyeryoung Lee, “Days and Nights of Taking up Arms: Guns, Young Men, and Liberation,” in Toward Democracy: South Korean Culture and Society, 1945-1980, ed. Hyunjoo Kim, Yerim Kim, Boduerae Kwon, Hyeryoung Lee, Theodore Jun Yoo (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2021), 40-65.

• Poetry. “Early South Korean Modernist Poetry,” poems of Kim Ki-rim, Pak In-hwan, Cho Hyang, Kim Kyŏng-nin, Kim Kyu-dong, Kim Ch’un-su, Kim Su-yŏng. Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture 13 (May 2020): 271-288.

• Fiction. Cheon Myoung-kwan, “The Factory,” excerpt from Whale (2004) for Korean Literature Now 30 (Winter 2015), December 16.

• Fiction. Lee Kiho, “A World History of Second Sons,” excerpt from A World History of Second Sons (2014) for Asia Literary Review 32.

“An American soldier looks over captured North Korean equipment” From U.S. Army. photographed by Cpl. R. Dangel.

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