Postdoctoral Researcher at Seoul National University

My research focuses on modern Korean literature and contemporary cultural criticism.

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Academic interests: railway representations; border spaces; Hamgyeong Province; transwar history; transnational cultural flows

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Information

📧 [email protected] / [email protected]

🌐@dusty_monji

📍Seoul, Republic of Korea (South Korea)

Education

Ph.D. in Korean Modern Literature, Seoul National University, South Korea, 2025

└ Dissertation: Korean Literature and the Semantic Entanglement of the Gyeongwon Line: Railway Representations in works by Yi Kwang-su, Yi Tae-jun, and Choi In-hoon

Publications

• “Affective Entanglements in the Fandom of the BL Drama Semantic Error (2022) [몰입과 얽힘 – BL 드라마 「시맨틱 에러」(2022)를 둘러싼 ‘과몰입–어펙트’의 의미 고찰].” Feminism and Korean Literature (여성문학연구), no. 66 (December 2025): 449-483.
• “Wonsan as a Border City and the Reinterpretation of Lee Sun-hee’s Literature: ‘Saturi,’ Overseas Culture, and the Relationship with Park Young-ho [경계의 도시 원산을 통한 이선희 문학의 재인식 ― ‘사투리,’ 해외문화, 박영호와의 관계를 중심으로].” The Journal of Modern Korean Literature (한국현대문학연구), no. 76 (August 2025): 49–79.
• “‘Can the Dead Speak?’: Reimagining Heroic Figures During the Park Chung-hee Regime [박정희 정권기 ‘호국 영웅’ 만들기와 균열의 서사－최인훈 소설 『서유기』의 ‘이순신･논개’ 표상 고찰].” Journal of Humanities Research Institute Sogang University, no. 71 (December 2024): 275–309.
• “Encounters on the 2024 Manchuria Journey: From ‘沦陷’ to Unit 731’s History [‘2024 만주 답사’를 통해 마주친 것들 ‒ “沦陷”의 시공간부터 ‘731부대 진열관’의 동물들까지‒].” Journal of Manchurian Studies, no. 38 (October 2024): 167–179.
• “A Korean Writer's Journey to the United States: Choi In-hun and the Cultural Cold War Experience [냉전기 한국 문인의 미국행과 그 이면-최인훈의 ‘아이오와대학교 국제창작프로그램(IWP)’ 참여 경험을 중심으로].” YISang Review no. 19 (June 2023): 235–258.
• “Writing as ‘A Story-telling Practice’: Review of Women Who Have Survived Make the World: Being a Woman in a Divided Country by Kim, Sungkyung [우리들은 이야기를 만든다 (서평)].” Journal of Humanities (Seoul National University) 80, no. 2 (May 2023): 429–440.
• “The Appearance of Female Translators and the Establishment of Modern Epistemology during the Modern Transition [근대 전환기 여성 번역가의 등장과 근대적 인식론의 성립].” 인하대학교 Center for Korean Studies, no. 67 (November 2022): 295-316.
• “Interpreting ‘Women’s Associations for the Abolition of Women’s Forced Early-retirement at 25’ as a Contemporary Text [‘가사 노동’ 의제화 과정 속 서사의 의의].” Journal of Korean Literary History, no. 78 (April 2022): 11–45.
• “Intra-Action between the Body and Image of Female K-Pop Idols and Online-Feminists in Korea [신유물론을 통한 페미니스트 재현학의 방향성 고찰].” Journal of Science & Technology Studies 21, no. 3 (November 2021): 174–199.