by
the George Washington University
&
Indiana University
Friday, April 2, 2021
7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. (EDT)
Livestream via Zoom
This event is open to the public.
Event Description
The 2021 GW-IU Korean Literature Essay Contest Ceremony will be held Friday, April 2, at 7:00 pm EDT. Join us as Faculty and Staff from both the George Washington University and Indiana University announce the winners of the essay contest after opening remarks from special guest speaker, Jamie Chang, Literary Translator of this year’s book, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo. This event will be open to all participants and extended to the general public to attend.
Guest Speaker
Jamie Chang is a literary translator based in Seoul, who teaches at Ewha Woman’s University Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation, and the Translation Academy at the Literature Translation Institute of Korea. Her works include Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo, The Great Soul of Siberia by Park Sooyong, and The Summer by Choi Eunyoung.
Judges
You-me Park (Left) is a teaching professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Georgetown University. Park has taught a class supported through the Berkley Center’s Doyle Seminars project. Before coming to Georgetown in 2004, she taught at George Washington University and Bryn Mawr College. You-Me Park co-edited Postcolonial Jane Austen (2000) and a special issue of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies on US Neoimperialism (2004). Her articles have appeared in Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, Pre/Text, Interventions, Restoration, and American Literature, as well as in various anthologies and edited volumes. She is presently completing a book-length study titled War on Women: Militarism, Gender, and Human Rights, which rethinks the connections among militaristic ideology, human rights discourse, and contemporary theories of biopolitics and sexual violence. Park holds a B.A. and M.A. from Seoul National University and a Ph.D. from George Washington University.
Susan Hwang (Center) is an Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Culture at Indiana University. She specializes in contemporary Korean literature and culture, with broader scholarly interest in intellectual history in East Asia, the relationship between aesthetics and politics, translation studies, and theories of world literature. Her current project examines the shifting relationship between literature and dissident politics in South Korea from the 1960s to the present. In this project she tells the story of how writers, critics, and intellectuals emerged as political actors at crucial junctures in South Korea’s recent history. In her teaching, she draws extensively from her training in intertextuality, theory and practice of translation, and transnationalism in East Asia. While promoting comparative and critical engagement with diverse cultural forms (literature, film, digital media, etc.), she emphasizes the importance of examining the politics of medium and storytelling that shape Korea’s cultural and textual history.
Jonathan Kief (Right) is an Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of North Carolina. He is a scholar of modern Korean and comparative literature specializing in North and South Korean fiction and criticism of the mid-twentieth century. His research interests include global and regional histories of Cold War culture, colonial and postcolonial Korean-Japanese literary and intellectual exchanges, translation studies, the Korean diaspora, and interactions between texts, images, and broadcast sound. He is currently working on a manuscript titled “Toward the Round Horizon”: Cross-Border Reading and Writing in the Cold War Koreas, which explores interactions between North and South Korean literature within broader transnational networks of the 1950s and 1960s.
