Yoon Sun Yang | World Languages & Literatures
YOON SUN YANG
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF KOREAN & COMPARATIVE LITERATURE, CONVENER OF KOREAN
TITLEAssociate Professor of Korean & Comparative Literature, Convener of Korean
OFFICESTH 604
EMAILyyoonsun@bu.edu
PHONE617-358-6151
EDUCATIONBA, Yonsei University (South Korea)
MA, Yonsei University; State University of New York at Stony Brook (Stony Brook University)
PhD, University of Chicago
Yoon Sun Yang is Associate Professor of Korean & Comparative Literature and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. She is the author of From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men: Translating the Individual in Early Colonial Korea (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Asia Center, 2017), which won the James B. Palais Book Prize of the Association for Asian Studies in 2020. Her edited volume Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean Literature came out in 2020 (the introduction is available here). Her latest articles are “Interracial Romance, Unlawful Marriage: Transpacific Encounters in Early Korean American Literature” (included in her edited volume) and “Madness, Medicine, and Masculinity: Kim Tongin’s “Oh, Frail-hearted!” (1919–1920)” in The Journal of Korean Studies 23:2 (October, 2018). She is currently translating early colonial Korean short stories and essays published between 1907 and 1918 (for the MLA Texts and Translations series) while working on a book-length study tentatively titled “Under the Medical Gaze: Illness, Gender, and Colonialism in Korean Literature.” At the same time, she is expanding her research interests to Asian American and Transpacific literature. At BU, she teaches Introduction to Korean Literature, Introduction to Comparative Literature: East Asian Literature, Korean Cinema, Gender in East Asian Film, Growing Up in Korea, and Readings in Korean Literature.
Yoon Sun Yang’s CV
PUBLICATIONS
MONOGRAPHS:
From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men: Translating the Individual in Early Colonial Korea (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Asia Center, 2017); the winner of the 2020 James B. Palais Book Prize of the Association for Asian Studies.
Under the Medical Gaze: Illness, Sexuality, and Literature in Colonial Korea
(in progress)
EDITED VOLUMES
Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean Literature (forthcoming, April 2020)
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
- “Madness, Medicine, and Masculinity: Kim Tongin’s “Oh, the Frail-hearted!” (1919–1920) The Journal of Korean Studies 23:2 (October 2018): 423−442
- “Female Ghosts to Ghostly Womanhood: Mt. Ch’iak (1908–1911) and Birth of Modern Korean Fiction,” Comparative Literature Studies 51:4 (December 2014): 644–673
- “Enlightened Daughter, Benighted Mother, Yi Injik’s ‘Tears of Blood’ and Korean Domestic Fiction,” positions: asia critique 22:1 (2014): 103–130
BOOK CHAPTERS:
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“Sapphic Marriage and Radical Domesticity in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Korean Literature” (a slightly revised version of a chapter from my first monograph) in Retelling Fantastic Tales in the East Asian and Global Contexts, edited by Liang Luo (submitted to Brill [the East Asian Comparative Literature and Culture Series] for peer review)
“Interracial Romance, Unlawful Marriage: Transpacific Encounters in Early KoreanAmerican Literature” (to be included in Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean Literature)
“Disorderly Emotion Disorderly Emotion and its Vicissitudes in Turn-of-the-TwentiethCentury Korean Literature” (in progress)
REVIEWS
Review of Figuring Korean Futures: Children’s Literature in Modern Korea. By Dafna Zur. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017. The Journal of Asian Studies 78:1 (2019): 211–212
Review of Factory Girl Literature. By Ruth Barraclough. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2012, The Journal of Asian Studies 72:4 (2013): 1007–1009
ANNOTATED TRANSLATIONS (Korean to English)
“KAPF literature in modern Korean literary history,” translation of Yoon-shik Kim’s
“Han’guk kŭndae munhak ŭi sisŏn esŏ pon k’apŭ munhak” (positions: east asia cultures critique 14:2 (2006): 405–425
Sensitive Young Men’s Narratives: An Anthology of Early Colonial Korean Short Stories and Essays, 1907–1918, with Sandra Lee (the prospectus for this book of translations, which consists of my single-authored introduction and sample translations, was accepted by the Publications Committee of the MLA Series Texts and Translations in October 2016) (in progress)
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
“Kyemong toen ttal kwa minong ŭi ŏmŏni: Yi Injk ŭi hyŏl ŭi nu wa isipsegi kajŏng
sosŏl” (Korean translation of “Enlightened daughter, benighted mother, Yi Injik’s ‘Tears
of Blood’ and Korean domestic fiction”), Proceedings of The Fifth International
Conference on Korean Language, Literature, and Culture (July 2011): 71–84
INVITED LECTURES
“From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men,” Harvard-Yenching Library Book
Talk, Harvard University, March 6, 2020 (forthcoming event)
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“What Constitutes the Individual in Early Colonial Korea?” Wesleyan University,
September 19, 2019.
“From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men: Translating the Individual in Early
Colonial Korea,” Recent Books in Korean Studies, Colloquium, the Center for Critical
Korean Studies, University of California, Irvine, April 19, 2019
“Disorderly Emotion: Medical Discourse and Literary Madness in Colonial Korea” The
26th Annual Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium, George Washington University, November 9–
10, 2018
“Visualizing Sexual Violence against Women without the Male Gaze,” Keynote speech
at the Brockport International Film Festival, College at Brockport, April 23, 2018
“Domestic Individuality and Collective Interiority in Early Colonial Korea,” University
of Toronto, March 8, 2018
East Asia by the Book! CEAS Author Talks, University of Chicago/ the Seminary Co-Op
Bookstore, February 26, 2018
“Sensitive Men and the Affective Turn in Early Colonial Short Stories,” The Department
of English, University of Pittsburgh, July 27, 2016
“From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men: Translating the Individual in Early
Colonial Korea,” Korea Institute, Harvard University, April 14, 2016
“The Birth of Sentimental Youths: The Affective Turn in 1910s Korea,” Colloquium:
Center for Korean Studies: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California,
Berkeley, September 29, 2014
“The Birth of Sentimental Youths: The Affective Turn in 1910s Korea,” Center for East
Asian Studies and Korean Studies Program, Shorenstein APARC, Stanford University,
September 30, 2014
“Kyemong toen ttal kwa minong ŭi ŏmŏni: Yi Injk ŭi hyŏl ŭi nu wa isipsegi kajŏng sosŏl
(Enlightened daughter, benighted mother, Yi Injik’s ‘Tears of Blood’ and Korean
domestic fiction),” Fifth International Conference on Korean Language, Literature, and
Culture, Yonsei University, South Korea, July 30, 2011
“Gender and the Rise of Modern Korean Fiction: Yi Injik’s “Tears of Blood” (1906) and
“Peony Hill” (1913),” University of Virginia, February 25, 2011
“Leaving Home to Return Home: Yi Injik’s “Tears of Blood” (1906),” Arizona State
University, January 29, 2009
“The (Un) Making of the New Home: Yi Injik’s “Tears of Blood” (1906) and the Rise of
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Korean New Fiction,” University of Washington, November 20, 2008
PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA, & WORKSHOPS
Discussant, Three || Eight: Korean Literature and the Division System, University of
Michigan, November 22 ̶23, 2019
Chair & Discussant, Harvard-Yenching Institute Lunch Talk, October 10, 2019
Mentor, Junior Faculty Manuscript Workshop, Princeton University May 17, 2019
Discussant, New Frontiers in Premodern Korean Studies Workshop, Korea Institute,
Harvard University May 9 ̶10, 2019
“Orientalizing the Occident: A Sinicized White Man and a Westernized Chinese Woman
in Nak Chung Thun’s “A Pitiful Grave,” the Association for Asian Studies Annual
Conference, Denver, Colorado, March 23, 2019
“Violence and Interiority in Yu Hyŏnmok’s An Aimless Bullet,” Cinemas of Societies in
Transition: Middle East and Asia Film Symposium, BU Center for the Study of Asia,
February 13, 2019.
Panel Discussant, “Gender and Ethnicity in Literature,” Harvard East Asia Society
Conference, February 8, 2019
Panel Discussant, “Time and History in World Making,” Korean Literature Association
Workshop, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, October 26−28, 2018
Panel Discussant, “Beautiful Boys and Glamour Girls: Gender, Youth and Emergent
Modernity in Japan and Korea,” Association for Asian Studies, Toronto, Canada, March
17, 2017
“Living Stateless: North Korean Refugees in Cinema,” Leaving Home: Asian Venture
into the World: Asia Film Festival, BU Center for the Study of Asia, November 16, 2016
“The Diagnosis of Pains, the Anatomy of Mind: Medical Science and Korean Fictional
Narratives in the late 1910s and early 1920s,” Korean Literature Association, Stanford
University, November 5, 2016
“The Diagnosis of Pains, the Anatomy of Mind: Medical Science and Korean Fictional
Narratives in the late 1910s and early 1920s,” Inaugural Symposium, Department of
World Languages and Literatures, Boston University, October 10, 2016
“Sapphic Marriage in Korean Popular Fiction,” American Comparative Literature
Association, Harvard University, March 18–19, 2016
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Discussant, Three-University (UCLA, Seoul National University, Harvard) Graduate
Student Workshop, Harvard University, May 6, 2016
“Sapphic Marriage and Fairytales of the Self-made Man,” Korean Literature Association
Inaugural Conference, Duke University, November 12–13, 2015
“Male Sentimentality in Korean Short Stories from the 1910s,” Association for Asian
Studies, Chicago, March 29, 2015
“The Birth of Sensitive Men and the Affective Turn of Modern Korean Fiction,” BU
Center for the Humanities Fellows’ Seminar, March 4, 2015
“The Birth of Sentimental Youths,” MLCL Faculty Colloquium, Boston University,
November 19, 2014
Discussant, 10th Worldwide Consortium of Korean Studies Centers Workshop: New
Generations, New Ideas in Korean Studies, Harvard University, June 7–9, 2014
“Sentimental Men and Cultural Capital in 1910s Korea,” American Comparative
Literature Association, New York University, March 20–23, 2014
“Domesticity, Ghostly Womanhood, and Colonialism,” Association for Asian Studies at
Toronto, Canada, March 16, 2012
Discussant and Chair, Translating Romantic Love between Cultures, Traditions, and
Languages in Korea, Association for Asian Studies, Honolulu, April 2, 2011
“Enlightened Daughter, Benighted Mother,” North American Workshop on Korean
Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 15, 2010
“Civilizing/ Colonizing Korean Women,” Southern Comparative Literature Association
Conference, Phoenix, AZ, October 2, 2009
Chair, Organizer, and Presenter of panel, “Home Fronts: The Making and Unmaking
of the Modern Home (Kajŏng) in Korea (1900–1950),” Association for Asian Studies,
Chicago, March 26, 2009
“Leaving Home (Ka) to Return Home (Kajŏng): Yi Injik’s ‘Tears of Blood,’” 4th
Worldwide Consortium of Korean Studies Centers, Australian National University,
Canberra, June 26, 2008
“Leaving Home (Ka) to Return Home (Kajŏng),” Arts and Politics of East Asia
Workshop, University of Chicago, May 25, 2007
“Enlightenment, Women, and Ghosts: Mt. Ch’iak,” Arts and Politics of East Asia
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Workshop, University of Chicago, January 28, 2005
GUEST TEACHING
Yi Kwangsu, The Heartless (1917); Yi Sang “Wings” (1936) (Lectures videotaped for
the course, Introduction to World Literature) Faculty of the Humanities, Georg-AugustUniversität Göttingen, Germany, August 21–23, 2018
“Early Colonial Domestic Novels and First-Generation New Fiction Writer,” Modern
Korean Women’s Fiction, University of Chicago, February 27, 2018
Introduction to World Literature, Boston University, Yi Sang’s “Wings” (1936),
November 21, 2016; December 5, 2017
Korean 4, Boston University, Why Study Korean Culture? September 14, 2016
Critical Approaches to Modern Korean Literature, UC Berkeley, Yi Injik’s Tears of
Blood, September 29, 2014
ACADEMIC CONFERENCES ORGANIZED
Korean Literature Association Annual Workshop: “In Search of New Horizons: One
Hundred Years of Modern Korean Literature,” October 26−27, 2017
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Professional Organizations
President, Executive Committee, Korean Literature Association, 2018–2019
Member, Steering Committee, Korean Literature Association, 2016–
Consultant Reader, ariel: A Review of International English Literature, 2014–
Member, Editorial Board, Han’guk kŭndae munhak yŏn’gu (Study of Modern
Korean Literature), 2011– 2016
Peer Reviews
Acta Koreana
ariel: A Review of International English Literature
Azalea
Columbia University Press
Comparative Literature Studies
Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies
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Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema
Korea Journal
Korean Studies
Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
Signs: The Journal of Culture and Society
The Journal of Asian Studies
The Journal of Korean Studies
The Review of Korean Studies
Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature
PROFESSIONAL AFFILATIONS
American Comparative Literature Association
National Women’s Studies Association
Association for Asian Studies
Modern Language Association
Korean Literature Association
Associate in Research, Korea Institute, Harvard University
Last Update: December 11, 2019
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