Seo Hee IM
임서희 / 任曙希
program
Visiting Scholar
Contact
seoheeim@hanyang.ac.kr
Field of Study
Literature
Years of Stay at HYI
Aug 2025 to May 2026
University Affiliation
Hanyang University
Ph.D., English, Yale
B.A., English and Comparative Literature, Columbia
Seo Hee Im is associate professor of English at Hanyang University, where she has been teaching since 2019. Her research interests include global Anglophone literature, critical theory, science fiction, and Korean literature and culture. Her first book, The Late Modernist Novel: Critique of Global Narrative Reason (Cambridge, 2022), shows how late modernist writing incorporated empirical structures (such as the I-Ching or the game of chess) into the novel to expand the genre beyond the political framework of the nation. Her current book project, American Violence, World Literature, tracks how American national culture became universal and universalizing by shaping, on a global scale, how we represent and think about violence.
Recent Publications
“Samuel Beckett and the Remains of Modernism.” Forthcoming in The Cambridge Companion to Late Modernism.
“Real Estate and the Millennial Romance.” Forthcoming in ELH 92.4 (2025).
“Fathers and Daughters; or, Social Reproduction in the Anthropocene.” boundary 2 51.1 (2024).
“Pain and Prejudice in the World Literary Market.” New Literary History 53.3 (2022).
“Philip K. Dick, Late Modernism, and the Chinese Logic of American Totality.” Modernism/modernity Print Plus (2019).
“Punching Down.” On Parasite (dir. Bong Joon-ho), LA Review of Books (2019)
“The Ghost in the Account Book: Conrad, Faulkner, and Gothic Incalculability.” NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 52.2 (2019).
“Between Habbakuk and Locke: Pain, Debt, and Economic Subjectivation in Paradise Lost.” MLQ 78.1 (2017).
“Sex, Violence, and the Vegetarian.” On Han Kang, The Vegetarian, Public Books; reprinted in The Guardian (2016)
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