seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English literature
early modern women’s writings
the ‘new philosophy’ and seventeenth-century (lunar) new-world fiction
Jonathan Swift
Margaret Cavendish
EDUCATION
1995 Ph.D, English Literature, University of Edinburgh, U.K.
1990 M.A., English Literature, Seoul National University
1988 B.A., English Literature, Seoul National University
WORK EXPERIENCE
2016.3-Present GIST, Professor
2010-2016.2 GIST, Associate Professor
2000-2009 Seoul National University, Visiting Assistant Professor
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
“A ‘more precise definition of the soul’ from the Flights of the Soul in The Blazing World and Primero sueño,” The Seventeenth Century 39.5 (2024)
“The Witch and the Empress: Women in Motion in Kepler’s and Cavendish’s Fiction of Lunar New Worlds,” Eighteenth-Century English Literature 20.1 (2023)
“Libertas philosophandi and Cloistered Women in Margaret Cavendish’s The Convent of Pleasure,” Eighteenth-Century English Literature 19.2 (2022)
“The Englishman in the New Worlds: Reforming Aliens and Savages in English New-World Fictions,” British and American Fiction 28.3 (2021)
“Werewolves, Giants, and Gulliver: Marvelous Bodies in the Posthuman Predicament,” Eighteenth-Century English Literature 18.2 (2021)
“Somnium, The Man in the Moone, and Reading the Lunar New World in Post-Galileian Europe,” British and American Fiction 24.2 (2017)
“Colonial Discourse on Irish Dress and the Self as ‘Outward Dress’: Swift’s Sartorial Self-fashioning,” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 29.3 (2017)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Heroes and Antiheroes: Understanding Modern Western Literature I
Adventures of Modernity: Understanding Modern Western Literature II
Lovers in Literature
Individuality and Identity: Understanding Coming-of-Age Novels
