English Literature

Julie Choi is currently serving as the Chair of the Department of English Language and Literature at Ewha Womans University. Her research undertaken during her year at Harvard-Yenching Institute was published in New Literary History (2006) under the title “The Metropolis and Mental Life in the Novel.” She served as Editor-in-Chief for Feminist Studies in English Literature from 2007-2009. More recently, Professor Choi has been working on the early woman writer, Mary Astell, publishing several articles as well as giving a paper at the 13th International Congress for Eighteenth-Century Studies held in July 2011 in Graz, Austria. She has extended her research interests to incorporate cultural critique of contemporary Korean culture and the rise of Hallyu.

Professor Moon is an assistant professor at Yonsei University, Department of English Literature. He received his M.A. in English literature from Yonsei University and Ph.D. in English and American Literature from the University of California-San Diego.  His reserach interests focus on African American Literature.

An Jee Hyun is Associate Professor of English Literature at Seoul National University. She grew up in Seoul, and received her BA and MA in English Literature from Seoul National University and her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2003. Her interests center on African American literature, Early American literature and culture, feminist theory and cultural studies. Her current research project focuses on the representation of African Americans in Korean literature after the Korean War and representation of Koreans/Korean-Americans in the cultural works of African Americans, and how these representations influence the way in which racial/ethnic identifications are formed and transformed.

Park Hyungji is an Associate Professor of English Literature at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea.  She received an A.B. in English and American Literature from Harvard University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Princeton University.  Her main research interests include the Victorian novel, post-colonial studies, and Asian American literature.  During her year at Yenching, her research focused on Western representations of Asia in general and, more particularly, on the ways in which nineteenth-century British literary, cultural, and diplomatic texts depict and understand Korea.