Yoon Jeong Oh received a Ph.D in Comparative Literature from Cornell University. As a comparatist scholar of modern Korean literature, she focuses on the interlingual, intertextual, and intercultural moments in Korea and beyond. Her research interests include psychoanalytic theory, postcolonial diasporas, translation studies, urban aesthetics, and visual studies.
Yoon Jeong Oh
Director of Graduate Studies, Assistant Professor
20th and 21st century Korean literature, film, media, and culture; Interlingual and intercultural relations in East Asia; Theories of comparative literature, language and translation, intertextuality, interculturality; Psychoanalysis and trauma studies in relation to postcolonial and diaspora studies; interrelations of temporality and spatiality; Media studies with a special interest in mediality, visuality, and textuality; interplay between literature, film, and art; the links between media and culture; World literatures (Europe, Americas, and East Asia) with a focus on translingual, transmedial, transnational, and transcultural moments; East Asian diasporic literatures, comparative studies between Asian and Asian American literatures, concepts of race/ethnicity and representations of difference; Urban literatures and multilingualism, multiculturalism, and multimedia.
Ph.D. 2016, Comparative Literature, Cornell University
M.A. 2010, Comparative Literature, Cornell University
M.A. 2005, Comparative Literature, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
B.A. 2001, Psychology, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
American Comparative Literature Association
Modern Language Association
Publications
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Incongruent Reflections: Translation and Bilingual Writing in Colonial KoreaHeekyoung Cho ed. Routledge Companion of Korean Literature (New York: Routledge, forthcoming in 2022)
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Post-imperial Spaces and Alternative Imaginaries of the Human and Nonhuman in Bong Joon Ho’s Transnational FilmsPostcolonial Studies (London: Routledge, 2021)
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The Transcultural Logic of Capital: The House and Stairs in ParasiteYouna Kim ed. Soft Power of the Korean Wave: Parasite, BTS, and Drama (New York: Routledge, 2021)
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Tosaka Jun’s Spatial Theory and Reflections on FilmMediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture (Fall 2020)
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Yi Sang à Paris: Art of Repetition and Improvisation in 2010 Paris/SeoulJournal of Korean and Asian Arts, Vol. 1 (Spring 2020): 29-54
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Translingual Melancholy in Yi Sang’s Visual PoetryCharlotte Eubank and Kyle Posey, ed. word/image/japan (PAJLS 18), (West Lafayette, IN: Association for Japanese Literary Studies, 2017): 121-133
Contact Information
Yoon Jeong Oh
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