Underwood International College

Professor of English Literature

Education

Ph.D. in English Literature, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1994
M.A. in English Language and Literature, Yonsei University, Seoul, 1983
B.A. in English Language and Literature, Yonsei University, Seoul, 1981

Courses and Current Research Areas

Readings in Medieval European Literature
Humanities and Related Fields
Tolkien's Fantasy Literature

Selected Publications

 "'Doting on her Beauty': Sign and Sexuality in The Revenger’s Tragedy." Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 23.1 (2015): 83-105.

"Quenta Simarillion: Noldor’s Oath and Valar’s Forgiveness."  Comparative Literature, 59 (2013): 197-222.

"Medieval Female Mystics and the Divine Motherhood." The Journal of English Language and Literature 56.4 (2010): 639-66.

"Stem Cell and Nuclear Weapon: Dialectic of Myth and Enlightenment."  The Journal of Criticism and Theory 13.2 (2008): 269-97.

"Seduction: under the Veil in The Arabian Nights."  Journal of Milton Studies in Korea 17.1 (2007): 1-17.

"Figural Allusions to Piers in Pier Plowman, Passus 13-16"  Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 13.1 (2005): 211-37.