Underwood International College

Professor, Department of English Language and Literature

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Full Professor, Yonsei University, Department of English, 2022-present
Associate Professor, Yonsei University, Department of English, 2017-2022
Associate Professor (with tenure), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of French, Italian and Comparative Literature, 2008-2017
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of French, Italian and Comparative Literature, 2000-2008

Education

Cornell University, Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 1999
Brown University, A.B. in Comparative Literature, 1991

Selected Publications

BOOK

From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.  232 pp.

ARTICLES 

“Destiny, Discretion, and the Demonic: On Isak Dinesen’s ‘Alkmene,’” Modern Language Review 118.4 (October 2023): 433-457
“A Demonic Shipwreck: On Ernst Jünger’s Wartime Diaries,” Comparative Literature (Korea) 85 (Fall 2021): 361-389
“Forgetting Ahab: Moby-Dick After America," The Journal of English Language and Literature 67.2 (June 2021): 215-236
“The Ethics of Betrayal: Seduction and Initiation in Dangerous Liaisons,” Fictional Worlds and the Moral Imagination, ed. Garry L. Hagberg. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021: 135-150
“The Host (2006): Life in Excess,” in Sangjoon Lee, ed. Rediscovering Korean Cinema. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2019: 423-434
“Extinction and Judgment: Misanthropy in the Anthropocene,” The Journal of English Language and Literature 65.2 (2019): 203-222
“The Self Without Interest: The Return of Sacrifice in The Leftovers,” Science Fiction Studies 46.2 (July 2019): 358-379
“Reading Aristocratically,” in Nicoletta Pireddu, ed. Reframing Critical, Literary, and Cultural Theories: Thought on the Edge. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018: 161-182
“The Korean Wave and the Impasse of Theory,” Telos 184 (Fall 2018): 119-138
“Between Love and the Moral Law: The Fatal Mother in Park Chan-wook's Lady Vengeance,” in Elena Gorfinkel and Tami Williams, eds., Global Cinema Networks. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2018: 199-213
“Stories of Cruel Youth: The South Korean Anti-Teen Film,” in Juhn Ahn, ed., Transgression in Korea: Beyond Resistance and Control. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018: 195-214
“The Death of Horror: On Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure,” Situations 9.2 (2016): 67-81
“A Tale Humans Cannot Tell: On Jin-Roh: The Wolf-Brigade,” Animation 11.1 (2016): 108-122
“A Kindly Apocalypse: Philip Rieff and the Endgame of the Therapeutic,” The Journal of English Language and Literature 61.3 (2015): 433-458
“The Master Who Mistook Himself for a Monster: Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy and the Artifice of History,” The Journal of Literature and Film 14.1 (2013): 27-59