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ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3998-867X
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Education
B.A. Yale, 1999
M.A. Stanford, 2001
Ph.D. Harvard, 2007
Teaching Interests
The 20th century, the 21st century, the 22nd century, aesthetics, Asian American studies, close reading, cultural theory, design fiction, digital writing, disability, DMZ studies, experimental writing, genre, the gothic, han/hwabyung, image descriptions, the Koreas, literary theory, lyric poetry, #MeToo, mental illness, modernism, rape studies, rhetoric, science fiction, theory, trauma, upgrading.
Courses Taught
English 151W: Readings in British Literature
English 165H: Introduction to Poetry
English 170W: Introduction to Literary Study
English 243: Genre
English 244: Theory
English 255: Global Literatures in English
English 314: Theorizing Popular Culture
English 369: Asian American Literature
English 379: The Korean DMZ and Its Others
English 391W: Science Fiction
English 399H: Honors Seminar on Aesthetics: Beauty, Its Opposites, and their Others
English 636: History of Literary Criticism
English 733: Asian American Literature
Selected Publications
BOOKS
A Refuge for Jae-in Doe and Other Fugues. Forthcoming. Punctum Books. Late 2025/early 2026.
– Sundress Publications 2024 Prose Semifinalist
Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation. Harvard University Press. 2011.
ESSAYS, POETRY, EXPERIMENTAL WRITING, ETC.
“Describing DICTEE.” Paideuma: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Vol. 49. Summer 2024.
“Differentially Unwell: On Mimi Khúc’s dear elia.” The Los Angeles Review of Books. March 5, 2024.
“You Are Invited: A Conversation on Sexual Violence in Asian America.” Co-authored with Thaomi Michelle Dinh. Amerasia Journal. January 18, 2024.
“Survivor-Shaped Specters and Gaps.” Callisto. January 11, 2024.
“Excerpts from an Anti-Standardized ‘수능’: A Design-Fictional Approach to Korea.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, volume. 34, number 2. Edited by Haerin Shin and Sang-Keun Yoo. Fall 2023.
“I, Discomfort Woman: A Fugue in F Minor.” The Margins/Asian American Writers’ Workshop. February 21, 2023.
– Nominated for Best of the Net.
“Dear Stanford: You must reckon with your history of sexual violence.” The Stanford Daily. July 2022.
“Imagining an Asian American Superhero of North Korean Origin.” Asian American Literature in Transition: 1996-2020. Edited by Betsy Huang and Victor Roman Mendoza. Cambridge University Press. 2021.
– Korean translation here: https://www.webzineriks.or.kr/post/북한-기원의-아시아계-미국인-슈퍼히어로를-상상하기-주서영
“Tiny Art Museum for the Floater in My Eye.” ASAP/Journal. Volume 5, Number 5. September 2020.
“Translator of Soliloquies: Fugues in the Key of Dissociation.” Chapbook. Black Warrior Review 46.2. Spring 2020.
“Dream Life of Waste: Archaeologies of the Soul in the Key of Capitalism.” Nat. Brut. Issue 13. Fall 2019.
– Nominated for Best of the Net.
“Dream of the Ambassador, 12/21/2016,” “The Lyric We,” “Two Koreas, in the Key of Emily Dickinson” (poems). Newtown Literary, Issue 14, Spring/Summer 2019.
– Poems performed at the 9th Annual New York City Poetry Festival, July 27th + 28th, 2019, Governors Island.
“Are Postmodernism and #MeToo Incompatible?” The Chronicle Review, Chronicle of Higher Education. Jun 14, 2019.
“Emoji Poetics.” ASAP/Journal. Volume 4, Number 2. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press. May 2019.
“Free Indirect Suicide: An Unfinished Fugue in H Minor.” The Rumpus. March 26th, 2019.
– Listed among “Notable Essays & Literary Nonfiction” in Best American Essays 2020.
– Nominated for a Best of the Net 2019 award
“The DMZ Responds.” Telos. Special Issue on Korea. Ed. Haerin Shin. Fall 2018.
“After ‘A Refuge for Jae-in Doe’: A Social Media Chronology.” ASAP Journal. March 15, 2018.
“A Refuge for Jae-in Doe: Fugues in the Key of English Major,” Entropy. November 3, 2017.
– Selected by Entropy editors as the best essay published in 2017.
– Named most-read piece of all time in Entropy
– Selected for inclusion in the Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018.
– Selected for inclusion in Best American Experimental Writing 2020.
– Selected for inclusion in Advanced Creative Nonfiction (2021).
– Excerpt reprinted in Journal of Asian American Studies, Johns Hopkins University Press, Volume 24, Number 1, February 2021, p. 113.
“Life 38.” Mithila Review. Aug 8, 2016.
– Featured as a Research Spotlight on Knowledge Commons.
“I, Stereotype: Detained in the Uncanny Valley.” Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media. Edited by David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, and Greta A. Niu. Rutgers University Press. 2015.
