Minseung Kim

Visiting Assistant Professor of Korean Literature & Language

Minseung Kim is a scholar of modern Korean literature whose research focuses on colonial Korean literature, transnational literary history, discourses on East Asia, translations, and textual and human border-crossings across East Asia in the early twentieth century. She is currently working on a book manuscript revising her dissertation, Across the Yellow Sea: Colonial Korean Literature, China, and Transregional Futures, which examines how Korean literature produced in China during the 1920s and 1930s reimagines the notions of a nation, region, and East Asia beyond the territorial and ideological boundaries of the Japanese Empire. Joining Bard in Fall 2026, she is interested in teaching Korean language courses at all levels, as well as courses on Korean literature and film that cover topics ranging from Korean migration, exile, and diaspora in the early twentieth century to cultural discourses on contemporary “K-content.

BA and MA, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul; MA, Washington University in St. Louis; PhD, University of California, Los Angeles

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