[App] Moon Family Postdoctoral Fellowship in Korean Studies (Academic Year 2016-2017)

The James Joo-Jin Kim Program at the University of Pennsylvania is accepting applications for the Moon Family Postdoctoral Fellowship in Korean Studies for the 2016-2017 academic year. The postdoctoral program is open to scholars from all fields whose research relates to Korea. The fellow will be expected to participate in Kim Program events and related activities at Penn and in the Korean studies community, as well as teaching a course in the spring semester of 2017. The fellowship will cover up to a 12-month period between August 1, 2016 and July 31, 2017, and will carry a stipend of $50,000. … more →

[Job] Assistant Professor of Korean literature, CUNY

The Department of Classical, Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY), invites applications for Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in Korean literature, broadly conceived, to begin in the fall semester of 2016. They particularly welcome applicants whose research and teaching interests extend to related fields such as film, cultural studies, transnational studies, comparative literature, and new media. Deadline is January 12, 2016.… more →

[App] Summer School EHESS, Paris: The Unity of the Social Sciences?

The EHESS stands out for the interdisciplinary character of its pedagogical and research program, systematically implementing a deliberate encounter of the social and human sciences in its teaching curriculum, most notably but not only sociology with history, philosophy and literature, history and economics, philosophy and cognitive sciences, anthropology and sociology. Because of this rich and unique intellectual tradition, the EHESS offers a Summer Program around the topic of The Unity of the Social Sciences through 4 intensive courses.… more →

Gender and Politics in Contemporary Korea, Journal of Korean Studies 19:2

At last, the special thematic issue on gender and politics in contemporary Korea I co-edited with Jennifer Jihye Chun has been published by the Journal of Korean Studies! “In this thematic issue on gender and politics in contemporary Korea, we broaden both our historical view and geographical reach… By featuring articles that examine the complex workings of gender and power in multiple sites and at multiple levels of analysis, this issue shows how gender is intimately bound with inequalities, not only between women and men but also in all social relations concerning class, sexuality, ethnicity, race, migration, and the nation.”… more →