Ecocriticism, Literary Theory and Criticism, Shakespeare, Early Modern Literature, Cli-fi novels (climate change fiction), the short story
Education
(Ph.D.) University of Alberta, 1996
(M.A) University of Alberta, 1991 - Area of specialization: Children’s Literature
Bachelor of General Studies (English major)--Athabasca University
Experience
Professor, Sungkyunkwan University, April 2013~
Associate Professor, Sungkyunkwan University, 2007-2013
Assistant Professor (Research), Konkuk University 2004-2007
Visiting professor, Catholic University of Korea, 2002–2004
Teaching professor, Sejong University, 2001-2
Full-time instructor, Chungwoon University 1997-2001
Sessional lecturer, University of Regina, 1995-96
Sessional instructor, Grande Prairie Regional College, 1994-95 (full-time); 1993-94 (pt-time)
Sessional lecturer, University of Alberta, 1993/ TA, University of Alberta, 1990-92
Journal Articles
(2024)
Women’s Corporeality and Slime in Shakespeare: Staging the Anthropocene.
PRIMERJALNA KNJIZEVNOST.
47,
1
(2024)
The Pause Button on Ecophobia: Reflections on Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, fifty years in.
NEOHELICON.
51,
1
(2023)
Pulped, Reduced, Dried Out and Flattened: the Horrors of Aborted Agency in “The Yellow Wallpaper”.
STUDIES IN AMERICAN FICTION.
50,
12
(2023)
Cli-fi and the Future of the Novel: Building on Helena Feder’s “Ecocriticism and Biology” Special Issue.
CONFIGURATIONS.
31,
4
(2023)
East Asian Palaeoanthropocenes: Responses.
POSTMEDIEVAL-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL CULTURAL STUDIES.
(2023)
Slime, Gender, and Environment: Misogyny’s Slimic Entanglements with Ecophobia.
ANQ-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SHORT ARTICLES NOTES AND REVIEWS.
36,
3
(2023)
Climate change and migration.
NEOHELICON.
50,
1
(2023)
Meat, limits, and breaking sustainability: Han Kang's The Vegetarian and Any Li's The Butcher's Wife.
CULTURA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY OF CULTURE AND AXIOLOGY.
20,
1
(2022)
Environmental Lessons From the Crime of the Ancient Mariner.
ANQ-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SHORT ARTICLES NOTES AND REVIEWS.
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(2022)
"Shakespeare’s misogyny, myxophobia, and ecophobia: corporeality and environment".
Institute of Body & Culture.
1,
2
(2022)
Anthropocene becomes the world: Indra Sinha's Animal's People, Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance, and Paulo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl as world literature.
CULTURA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY OF CULTURE AND AXIOLOGY.
19,
2
(2022)
Quarantine Then and Now: Reflections on Year of Wonders and COVID-19.
ANQ-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SHORT ARTICLES NOTES AND REVIEWS.
35,
4
(2022)
The Rise of the Arm Chair and the Fall of the Discipline-Philosophy and Quarantine: An Introduction to the Quarantine Special Issue.
ANQ-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SHORT ARTICLES NOTES AND REVIEWS.
35,
4
(2022)
Wang Ning and Shakespeare.
INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES OF LITERATURE.
6,
2
(2022)
COVID-19 and the Ecophobic Reflex.
Imagining A Common Horizon for Humanity and the Planet.
1,
1
(2022)
The Slimic Imagination and Elemental Eco-Horror.
ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ANGLISTIK UND AMERIKANISTIK.
70,
1
(2022)
CORPUS INTERRUPTUS An Introduction to the Forum Kritika on Theorizing Corporeality in the Climate Change Era.
KRITIKA KULTURA.
38
(2022)
Humanizing Corporeal Spectacle: Humor and Resistance in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People.
KRITIKA KULTURA.
38
(2022)
Teaching East Asian Ecocriticisms.
Teaching Postcolonial Environmental Literature and Media.
1,
1
(2022)
The Global Poltergeist: Covid-19 Hauntings.
Haunted Nature: Entanglements of the Human and the Nonhuman.
1,
1
Publications
(2022)
Anthropocene Ecologies of Food: Notes from the Global South.
Routledge.
Lead author
(2022)
“Afterword: Toward Shifts in Global Food Systems”.
Routledge.
Lead author
(2021)
Ekofobi Hipotezi (The Ecophobia Hypothesis.
Cappadocia University Press.
Lead author
(2021)
Mushroom Clouds: Ecocritical Approaches to Militarization and the Environment in East Asia.
Routledge.
Lead author
(2019)
Book title: Shakespeare and Asia, Chapter title: Splitting Heres: Shakespeare and the Global.
Routledge.
Co-author
(2018)
Shakespeare And Asia "Splitting Heres Shaespeare and the Global Supermarket, Here, There, Then and Now.
Routledge.
Co-author
(2018)
The Ecophobia and Hypothesis.
Routledge.
Solo
(2016)
Landscape, Seascape, and the Ecospatial Imagination.
Routledge.
Lead author
(2015)
Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts – a Field Guide to Reading and Teaching.
“Queerly green: from meaty to meatless days and nights in Timon of Athens.”.
Ashgate.
Co-author
(2014)
Painful Material realities,tragedy, ecophobia.
Indiana University Press.
Co-author
(2014)
Greening queer early modern scholarship and pedagogy: pushing the ecophobia hypothesis through the stomach: Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts.
Ashgate.
Solo
(2013)
Green Growth: from theory to practice; from action to power
“Blowing Smoke: Theorising a Space from Eco-Exceptionalism to Action in Ecocriticism.”.
Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Co-author
(2013)
Culture and Media: Ecocritical Explorations
Spectators to future ruin: ecological representations and their consumption." Culture and Media: Ecocritical Explorations.
Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Co-author
(2013)
International Perspectives in Feminist Ecocriticism.
Routledge.
Lead author
(2013)
International Perspectives in Feminist Ecocriticism
Article title:The Ecophobia Hypothesis: Remembering the Feminist Body of Ecocriticism.
Routledge.
Co-author
(2013)
Partial Views: An Introduction to East Asian Ecocriticisms.” East Asian Ecocriticisms: A Crticial Reader.
Palgrave Macmillan.
Co-author
(2013)
Spectators to future ruin: ecological representations and their consumption.” Culture and Media: Ecocritical Explorations.
Culture and Media: Ecocritical Explorations.
Solo
(2013)
Partial Views: An Introduction to East Asian Ecocriticisms.” East Asian Ecocriticisms: A Crticial Reader.
Palgrave Macmillan.
Co-author
(2013)
East Asian Ecocriticism:"Partial Views: An Introduction to East Asian Ecocriticisms"..
Palgrave Macmillan.
Co-author
Conference Paper
(2024)
Speculative Realism and the Future of Literature.
Speculative Literary and Visual Narratives on Ecological Crises: Dystopis, Cli-fi, Sci-fi Climate and Society.
CHINA
(2023)
Transnational Literary Scholarship in an Age of Climate Change.
Chengdu University.
CHINA
(2023)
Shakespeare and Ecophobia.
Chengdu University.
CHINA
(2023)
hakespeare and Ecophobia.
Central China Normal University.
CHINA
(2023)
The Mountainous East Asian Anthropocene: Past Insights, Present Realities.
Mutural Learning of World Heritage Sites and Co-existence of Mountain Civilizations.
CHINA
(2023)
World Literature, Trans-species Translation, and Ecocritical Praxis.
Hungarian comparative Literature Association.
HUNGARY
(2023)
Material Ecocriticism, Vegetal Agency, and Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper.”.
The 40th Anniversary Celebration Activites of Shenzhen University.
CHINA
(2023)
Moved beyond words: Anthropocene affect beyond narrative.
Contemporary Chinese Culture Research Consortium.
HONG KONG
(2022)
“Wang Ning and Shakespeare”.
International Conference on Wang Ning's Scholarship of Comparative Literature and World Literature.
CHINA
(2022)
“Shakespeare’s misogyny, myxophobia, and ecophobia: corporeality and environment”.
Ethics of human and non-human symbiosis.
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
(2022)
Situating Ecophobia in Relation to COVID-19.
Nature, Wilderness and Civilization: Interdisciplinary And Intercultural Dialogue—International Conference..
CHINA
(2022)
(E)CO - VID - 19, ECOPHOBIA, CORPOREAL CONSEQUENCES.
Body as nature and culture, and the Anthropocene—International Conference of the Institute of Body and Culture.
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
(2021)
North of the 49th: What’s Going on Up There, Eh?.
SKKU ASLE-K International.
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
(2021)
Covid-19 and the Ecophobic Reflex.
2021 Forum on environmental humanities.
UNITED STATES
(2021)
Preserving our “Accidental Paradise.
2021 Peace Regional Development Strategy Forum: Collecting wisdom for peace and coexistence on the Korean Peninsula (2021평화지역발전전략포럼:한반도평화상생지혜모은다).
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
(2020)
Beseiged bodies and the non-biotic, spectacles and limits: reading Animal’s People after COVID-19..
Body in the climate change era.
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
(2019)
The Titanic is Sinking: Multi-Media Apocalypticism and the Growing Environmental Crises.
2019 문학과환경학회 가을학술대회.
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
(2019)
Intermedial Apocalypticism and the Growing Anthropocene Crises.
international conference entitled Intermedial Ecocriticism: The Anthropocene Condition Across Media and the Arts.
ROMANIA
(2019)
Ecophobia and the Agony of Water.
Association for the Study of Literature and EnvironmentThirteenth Biennial Conference.
UNITED STATES
(2019)
Climate Change and Migration.
international conference entitled Ecological Migrations and Transcultural Ethics.
INDIA