Working project
“Diaspora Voices in Translation: A Database of 21st-Century Translated Works”
[View the earlier version of the project]
The digital archive and data collection presented above were originally supported by funding from Carnegie Mellon University. With recent funding from Binghamton University’s BUPNUR program, I was able to revise and finalize the database of translated works published between 2001 and 2025, completing the data collection in summer 2026. I am currently developing a more comprehensive version of the website and preparing a scholarly article based on this project. In the meantime, I am sharing this earlier version of the project, which reflects the work I began as a PhD student.
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- 2025“De/Ethnicized Urban Landscape in Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For.” English21, vol. 38, no. 3, 2025, pp. 131–53.
- 2018“Tactics of (Un)Belonging: Drifting Black Bodies in Dionne Brand’s In Another Place, Not Here.” New Korean Journal of English Language and Literature, vol. 60, no. 4, 2018, pp. 163–82.
Book review
- 2025Review of Dear Science and Other Stories by Katherine McKittrick. The Comparatist, vol. 49, November 2025, pp. 283–85.
Invited talks and selected presentations
Invited talks
- Feb 2026“Facing Zombies: Ethical Reckoning in Korean Cinema through Yeon Sang-ho’s Train to Busan and Seoul Station.” Center for Korean Studies Colloquium Series, Binghamton University, NY.
- Oct 2024“When Exceptionalism Meets Exception.” Making Exceptions, Taking Refuge Conference, Dalhousie University, Canada.
- Aug 2021“Bringing ‘polyphonic murmuring’ into our classrooms.” Translingual Teaching Panel, Carnegie Mellon University.
Conference presentations
- Nov 2026“Animating Wildness and Shame: Hybrid Asian North American Girlhood in Turning Red and K-Pop Demon Hunters.” NWSA, Atlanta, Georgia. (upcoming)
- Oct 2026“Teaching network analysis with Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko: Sunja and 100 Characters.” Korean and Korean Diaspora Studies Working Group Workshop, Syracuse University, NY.
- Mar 2026“Flight of regimes: Interrogating Life in Saadat Hasan Manto’s ‘Toba Tek Singh.’” NeMLA, Pittsburgh, PA.
- Jun 2025“Diaspora Voices in Translation: Building a Database of 21st-Century Translated Works.” The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), virtual.
- May 2023“‘The Gift of Freedom’: Neoliberal Multiculturalism in Open City and Son of Elsewhere.” 2023 Congress, York University, Canada.
- Jun 2022“‘History has failed us, but no matter’: Dealing with the Ambivalence of Risk in Lee Min Jin’s Pachinko.” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), virtual.