Kim Su Yun
김수연 / 金秀姸

Dr. Su Yun Kim is an Associate Professor in the Korean Studies Program at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures of the University of Hong Kong, specializing in modern Korean literature and culture. She received a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California, San Diego, and a B.A. and M.A. from Yonsei University. Prior to joining the University of Hong Kong, Dr. Kim taught at Hamilton College and was a JSPS postdoctoral fellow at Doshisha University in Kyoto. Her first monograph, Imperial Romance: Fictions of Colonial Intimacy in Korea, 1905¬–1945 (Cornell University Press, 2020), examines discourses and literary representations of Korean-Japanese intermarriage in colonial-era Korea. Other recent publications include her co-edited volume East Asian Transwar Popular Culture: Literature and Film from Taiwan and Korea (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) as well as book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Asian Studies Review, The Journal of Korean Studies and Acta Koreana. At Harvard, Dr. Kim continued her work on her new book-length project on the production of Korean popular fiction and cinema of the transwar period (1930s–1960s), with a focus on romance and affect.