Research Interests

20th-21st Century Korean and Asian American Literature and Culture

Decolonial Thought

 

Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies

Gender and Sexuality Studies

Disability Studies

Settler Colonialism Studies

Native and Indigenous Studies

 

Publications

Edited Issues

“Frantz Fanon, Decoloniality, and the Spirit of Bandung.” (with N. Maldonado-Torres, M. Fanon-Mendès-France, and Z. Radebe) Bandung: Journal of the Global South 6.2. 2019.

 

Articles

“Minor Settler Grief: Korean Diaspora, Settler Colonialism, and the Pastoral Fantasy in Minari (2021).” American Quarterly 76.1: 83-101. 2024.

“Editorial Introduction: Frantz Fanon, Decoloniality, and the Spirit of Bandung.” (with N. Maldonado-Torres, M. Fanon-Mendès-France, and Z. Radebe) Bandung: Journal of the Global South 6.2: 153-161. 2019.

“The Spirit of Bandung Beyond Colonial Mobility.” Bandung: Journal of the Global South 6.2: 190-209. 2019.

“The Transpacific Tempest: Relational Sovereignty and Spiritual Sociogenesis.” Cultural Dynamics 31.4: 375-398. 2019.

 

Book Chapters

“Decolonising Philosophy.” (with N. Maldonado-Torres, R. Vizcaíno, and J. Wallace) Decolonising the University. Pluto Press: 64-90. Ed. by G. K. Bhambra, D. Gebrial, and K. Nisancioglu. 2018.

 

Reviews

“Review of Christina Klein’s Cold War Cosmopolitanism: Period Style in 1950s Korean Cinema (University of California Press, 2020). Journal of Korean Studies 28:1 (2003).

“Book Review of Queer Times, Black Futures (New York UP, 2019) by Kara Keeling.” Philosophy and Global Affairs 2.1 (2022): 235-238.

“Transnational Feminist and Queer Disability Politics, a Blueprint from Modern Korea.” GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies 25. 3 (June 2019): 500-502. Review of Eunjung Kim’s Curative Violence: Rehabilitating Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Korea (Duke UP, 2017).

“Book Review of When the Future Disappears: The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea (Columbia UP, 2014) by Janet Poole.” ACTA Koreana 18.1 (2015): 313-315.

 

Other Contributions

“Koreans of Cuba: In Search of Pacific-Caribbean Decoloniality.” Caliban’s Readings. The Caribbean Philosophical Association Blog. 2023.

Interview. Hankyorye 21 Column.  2023.

“Talsikminjŏk sayu.” Korean translation of Nelson Maldonado-Torres’s “The 2021 Decolonial Turn.” 오르비스 테르티우스. 남미석학에게 듣는다 Orbis Tertius. Seoul National University’s TransLatin book series, Greenbee Press. Korean translation of Nelson Maldonado-Torres’s “The Decolonial Turn.”

“The Jeju Uprising and the 2018 Peace Tour.” The Korea Policy Institute. 2020

“A Lyrical Approach to a National Crisis: The Role of Ordinary Petersburg in Akhmatova’s “Requiem”.” The Birch: A Journal of Eastern European and Eurasian Culture of Columbia University (Spring 2013): 38-41.