- English and American Poetry
- Ecological Poetry
- Ecological Literature
- Environmental Humanities
- Ecological Literature of Korea
- East Asian Ecocriticism
- Climate Change
- Food
- Translation
-Translation of Korean Literary Works into English
Education
Ph. D. University of Iowa
Experience
President of Graduate School of Translation and TESOL, Sungkyunkwan University
President of Literature and Environment Society
President of Korean Language Center, Sungkyun Language Institute
Weekly professor Sungkyun Times
President of Institute of the Humanities
Freeman Fellow, Center for Asia and Pacific Studies, University of Iowa
International Writing Program Fellow
Journal Articles
(2022)
공(空)과 연기(緣起) 그리고 연민의 언어: W. S. 머윈의 생태시와 불교 사상.
문학과환경.
21,
1
(2022)
THE NOMAD OF THE NAKED BODY The Trans-corporeal Ecopoetics of Sunwoo Kim.
KRITIKA KULTURA.
-,
38
(2020)
이규보, 마쓰오 바쑈, A. R. 애먼즈의 시에 나타난 물아일체의 생태시학.
문학과환경.
19,
2
(2019)
Eating and Suffering in Han Kang's The Vegetarian.
CLCWEB-COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND CULTURE.
21,
5
(2015)
"The Korean War, Memory, and Nostalgia".
CLCWEB-COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND CULTURE.
17,
3
(2014)
Ecological Eating: Gary Snyder’s Existential Koan.
문학과환경.
13,
2
(2014)
Environmental Literature and the Change of Its Canon in Korea.
CLCWEB-COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND CULTURE.
16,
6
(2014)
웬델 베리의 음식의 경제학과 섭생의 윤리.
미국학 논집.
46,
2
(2014)
음식은 세상의 몸: 마이클 폴란의『잡식동물의 딜레마』에 나타난 생태적 섭생.
문학과환경.
13,
1
(2013)
For the Healing of the Ailing World: The Shamanistic Poetics of Chiha Kim and Gary Snyder.
FOREIGN LITERATURE STUDIES.
35,
1
(2012)
A World in a Rice Bowl: Chiha KIm and an Emerging Korean Food Ethic.
ISLE-INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND ENVIRONMENT.
19,
4
(2013)
Writing Spaces: Travel, Global Citites and Landsacpes.
Center for the Humanities.
Co-author
(2013)
East Asian Ecocriticisms: A Critical Reader.
Palgrave Macmillan.
Co-author
(2013)
East Asian Ecocriticisms: A Critical Reader
"Multicultural Ecocriticism and Korean Ecological Literature".
Palgrave Macmillan.
Co-author
(2013)
소로우의 <자연사 에세이>.
아카넷.
Solo
(2011)
The Growth of a Shadow: Selected Poems of Taejoon Moon.
Autumn Hill Books, Inc..
Lead author
(2010)
Translucency: Selected Poems of Chankyung Sung.
Homa & Sekey Books.
Lead author
(2009)
Scale and Stairs: Selected Poems of Heeduk Ra.
White Pine Press.
Solo
(2009)
숨은 신을 찾아서: 지상에서 가장 성스러운 땅, 아토스 산으로의 여행.
민음사.
Solo
(2008)
현대미국 생태시의 이해.
도서출판희동.
Co-author
(2008)
내 생일에 와 줄래.
예림당.
Solo
Conference Paper
(2020)
English Studies in the Age of AI.
2020 Ellak International Conference.
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
(2020)
“Is There Any Body Not a Hybrid?”: A Transcorporeal Poetics of Sunwoo Kim.
BODIES IN THE CLIMATE CHANGE ERA.
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
(2019)
Climate Change and the Labyrinth of Food.
70th Oversea Scholar Forum.
CHINA
(2019)
The Trend and Challenge of Korean Ecopotry.
The 6th Qingyuan International Poetry Festival & International Ecopotery Conference.
CHINA
(2018)
The Pleasure and Agony of Translating Korean Poetry.
Korean Literature on Global Stage.
UNITED STATES
(2017)
Beyond Meat in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian.
Environmental Imagination and the Responsibility to Act.
CHINA
(2016)
War Against Food Waste in Korea.
Waste in Asia Conference.
NETHERLANDS
(2015)
Dynamics of Media and Meat in Ruth L. Ozeki’s My Year of Meats.
Environmental Humanities on the Ground: Materiality, Sustainability, and Applicability.
CHINA
(2015)
The “Union of Self and Things (物我一體)”:Ecological Poetics and the Voice of Things.
26_5: Notes from
underground :
the depths of
environmental
art, culture and
justice.
UNITED STATES
(2015)
Yellow Dust Storm: A Mixed Blessing to Us.
Notes from
underground :
the depths of
environmental
art, culture and
justice.
UNITED STATES
(2014)
Ecological Poetics of the “Union of Self and Things (物我一體)” in East Asia.
Unsettling Boundaries: Nature, TEchnology, Art: 2014 International Symposium on Literature and Environment in East Asia.
JAPAN
(2013)
InterKorean Migratioin: War, DMZ, and Ecology.
Migrants and Thier Memories: 2013 International Conference.
TAIWAN
(2013)
From Despair and Disillusionment into Enlightenment: Buddhism and Ecology in Soungho Choi's Ecopoetry.
Changing Nature: Migrations, Energies, Limits: Asle Tenth Biennial Conference.
UNITED STATES
(2012)
Charting East Asian Ecocriticisms.
East Asian Symposium on Literature and Environment.
TAIWAN
(2012)
Why East Asian Discourse Matters in this Glocal Age: A Case Study of Korean Environmental Literature.
Seminar on Ecocriticism.
TAIWAN
(2012)
Cape of Desire and Sea of Reflection: Buddhism and Ecology in Seungwon Han's Lotus Sea.
Landscape, Seascape, and the Spatial Imagination.
TAIWAN
(2012)
Ecoshamanistic Poetics of Chiha Kim and GAry Sndyer.
Seminar on Ecocriticism.
TAIWAN
(2010)
Multicultural Ecocriticism and Korean Ecopoetry.
The Fifth Tamkang International Conference on Ecological Discourse.
TAIWAN
(2010)
For the Healing of the Ailing World: A Shamanistic Poetics of Chiha Kim and Gary Snyder.
Environemental Change --Cultural Change.
UNITED KINGDOM
(2009)
영문학, 영어학, 영어교뉵 분야의 학제간 공동연구 가능성과 사례연구.
2009년도 한국영어영문학회 제 91차 학술대회.
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
Activities
(2003)
International Writing Program, University of Iowa.
UNITED STATES,