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Kimberly Chung
Academic title(s):
Assistant Professor
Korea Foundation Professorship in Korean Studies
Undergraduate Program Director
Department:
East Asian Studies
Office:
274
Biography:
Kimberly Chung is a specialist in modern and contemporary Korean literature and visual culture. She is currently working on a book manuscript, Proletarian Sensibilities: Mass Culture of 1920s and 1930s Colonial Korea that explores mass culture—colonial subjectivity, representations of the laboring body, the supernatural and the folk—through the visual and narrative representations of the lower classes. She has published research on modern and contemporary Korean literature, visual culture, and art in scholarly journals like Journal of Korean Studies and Acta Koreana, and has been a special guest editor for an issue on Korean literature and film for Acta Koreana (Vol. 17 no.1). She is also a coeditor for an anthology on Korean contemporary art titled Korean Art From 1953: Collision, Innovation, and Interaction.
Area(s):
Korea
Areas of expertise:
Modern and contemporary Korean literary and visual culture; Postcolonial Studies; Critical Theory
Research areas:
Korean Literary and Visual Culture
Areas of interest:
Her research explores the intersection of literature, aesthetics, narratives and intellectual history from the beginning of the 20th century to the present, and the representation and construction of subjectivities at points of social, economic and political transformation.