(Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles), Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities and Director of The Center for Korean Research. His research interests include coloniality; proletarian literature and art; cultures of national division; visuality and the global Cold War. He is the author of Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea: Freedom’s Frontier (Columbia University Press, 2012) and the co-editor of Rat Fire: Korean Stories from the Japanese Empire (Cornell East Asia Series, 2013). Other publications include "Korean Literature Across Colonial Modernity and Cold War" (PMLA, 2011); “Planet Hallyuwood: Imaging the Korean War” (Acta Koreana, 2011); "Return to the Colonial Present: Ch'oe In-hun's Cold War Pan-Asianism" (positions: east asia cultures critique, 2011); "'North Koreans' and other Virtual Subjects: Kim Yong-ha, Hwang Suk-young, and National Division in the Age of Posthumanism" (The Review of Korean Studies, 2008); "Korean Memories of the Vietnam and Korean Wars: A Counter-History" (Japan Focus, 2007); "Korean Visual Modernity and the Developmental Imagination" (SAI, 2006); "Development as Devolution: Nam Chong-hyon and the 'Land of Excrement' Incident" (Journal of Korean Studies, 2005); "Producing Sovereign Spaces in the Emerging Cold War World Order: Immediate Postliberation 'North' and 'South' Korean Literature" (Han'guk Munhak Yon'gu, 2005); Panmunjom and Other Stories by Lee Ho-Chul (Norwalk: EastBridge, 2005). He is currently working on an interdisciplinary cultural history of the Korean War tentatively titled The Remembered War: Violence, Trauma, Division in Korea.
