Editorial Board
editor emeritus
백낙청
白樂晴
Paik, Nak-chung
paiknc@snu.ac.kr
白樂晴
Paik, Nak-chung
paiknc@snu.ac.kr
Paik Nak-chung is a professor emeritus of English literature at Seoul National University. A literary critic, he has authored: National Literature and World Literature (2 volumes), In Search of the Logic of Human Liberation, The New Stage of National Literature, The Path of Practice for Transforming the Division System, The Division System in Crisis, Rewards of Korean Literature in the Age of Reunification, Unification Korean-Style, Present Progressive Tense, and Where Is the Middle Way and Wherefore Transformation?, D. H. Lawrence: a Western Kaebyeok (“Great Opening”) Thinker, The Double Project of Modernity and the Korean-Peninsula-Style Country-Making, editing and co-authoring many books as well, including a eight-volumes of Conversations of Paik Nak-chung.
editor-in-chief
이남주
李南周
Lee Nam-ju
lee87@skhu.ac.kr
李南周
Lee Nam-ju
lee87@skhu.ac.kr
Lee Nam Ju is a professor of Chinese studies at Sung-Kong-Hoe University. He has published The Development and Characteristics of civil society in China and co-edited On Dual Project of Modernity.
vice editor-in-chief
황정아
黃靜雅
Hwang Jung-a
jhwang612@hanmail.net
黃靜雅
Hwang Jung-a
jhwang612@hanmail.net
Hwang Jung-A is a literary critic and HK professor at Hallym Academy of Sciences in Hallym University. She has published Humanities as Concept Criticism, a collection of critical essays; and translated into Korean Terry Eagleton's Why Marx Was Right and George Monbiot's The Age of Consent.
vice editor-in-chief
백지연
白智延
Baik Ji-yeon
cyndi89@hanmail.net
白智延
Baik Ji-yeon
cyndi89@hanmail.net
Baik Ji-yeon is a literary critic and has published Literature That Speeds through a Labyrinth, a collection of literary criticism.
editorial board_standing member
강경석
姜敬錫
Kang Kyung-seok
netka@hanmail.net
姜敬錫
Kang Kyung-seok
netka@hanmail.net
Kang Kyung-seok is a literary critic and has authored “In Front of Sunset for Everything” and “Recharging the Reality”.
editorial board_standing member
백영경
白英瓊
Paik Young-Gyung
paix@knou.ac.kr
白英瓊
Paik Young-Gyung
paix@knou.ac.kr
Paik Young-Gyung is a feminist anthropologist and teaches at Jeju National University. Her research interests include population policies, politics of knowledge, family politics and citizenship in South Korea. She has co-published Feminism and Biotechnology in Everyday Life and translated into Korean Immanuel Wallerstein’s Utopistics or Historical Choices of the Twenty-first Century.
editorial board_standing member
송종원
宋鐘元
Song Jong-won
renton13@hanmail.net
宋鐘元
Song Jong-won
renton13@hanmail.net
Song Jong-won is a literary critic and professor at Seoul Institute of the Arts. He has authored “Fact, History, and Poetry” and “The Reality Overcoming the Dissociating Senses”.
editorial board
김상현
金湘顯
Kim Sang-Hyun
shkim67@sogang.ac.kr
金湘顯
Kim Sang-Hyun
shkim67@sogang.ac.kr
Kim Sang-Hyun is a Humanities Korea (HK) Associate Professor at the Critical Global Studies Institute, Sogang University. His publications include the co-edited volume Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power (with Sheila Jasanoff, 2015) and the article in Korean: "Korean Ecumenical Movement and the Politics of 'Modernization' and 'Development' during the 1960s and early 1970s". (2019).
editorial board
김소라
金昭摞
Kim Sora
stellatis@gmail.com
金昭摞
Kim Sora
stellatis@gmail.com
Kim Sora is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Jeju National University. She has published articles that include “A Study of the Construction and Transformation of Sexual Materials Regulation Policies in South Korea Since 1987” and “Changes in Digital Sexual Violence and the Limitations of Regulation Based on ‘Obscenity’.”
editorial board
김종엽
金鍾曄
Kim Jong-yup
jykim@hs.ac.kr
金鍾曄
Kim Jong-yup
jykim@hs.ac.kr
Kim Jong-yup is a sociologist and a professor at Hanshin University. He has published A Hermeneutics of Laughter, Solidarity and Enthusiasm, Regret for the Age and For Emile Durkheim; translated into Korean Sigmund Freud’s Totem and Taboo.
editorial board
박여선
朴麗仙
Park Yeo Sun
kirillo7@snu.ac.kr
朴麗仙
Park Yeo Sun
kirillo7@snu.ac.kr
Park Yeo Sun is a scholar of English literature and professor in the Faculty of Liberal Education, Seoul National University. Her publications include the articles “‘Tweaking’ the Narrative of Apocalyptic Affect: D. H. Lawrence’s Apocalypse (2020)” and “Memory, Narrative, and Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: A Reading of Gazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go,” as well as a translation of the book Sea and Sardinia.
editorial board
백민정
白敏禎
Baek Min Jung
mjbaek@catholic.ac.kr
白敏禎
Baek Min Jung
mjbaek@catholic.ac.kr
Baek Min Jung is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Catholic University of Korea. Her publications include Mencius: Philosophical Case for Confucianism; Jeong Yag-yong’s Philosophy; and Confucians Visiting Classrooms. She is also a co-author of two books: A Study of Choi Han-gi Hyegang and Dasan Studies
editorial board
백지운
白池雲
Baik Ji-woon
jiwoon-b@hanmail.net
白池雲
Baik Ji-woon
jiwoon-b@hanmail.net
Baik Ji-woon is an assistant professor at the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies in Seoul National University. She earned her Ph.D. degree from Yonsei University with a dissertation on Liang Qichao’s enlightenment thought and Chinese modernity discourse. Her publications include Thinking of Unification and Peace from the Cross Strait (co. ed.), "Reconciliation Entangled with Nationalism in the Post-Cold War Era." She also translated several books into Korean, such as Takeuchi Yoshimi's Japan and Asia, Chen Kuan-hsing's The Emperialist Eyes
editorial board
신용목
愼鏞穆
Sin Yong-Mok
97889788@daum.net
愼鏞穆
Sin Yong-Mok
97889788@daum.net
Sin Yong-Mok is a poet and professor at Chosun University. He has authored poetry collection We Must Walk All of the Wind, The Wind’s Millionth Molar,andWhen Someone Called Someone I Looked Back
editorial board
오연경
吳姸鏡
Oh Youn-kyung
korin2@hanmail.net
吳姸鏡
Oh Youn-kyung
korin2@hanmail.net
Oh Youn-kyung is a literary critic and professor in the Faculty of Liberal Education, Korea University. Her publications include “Is Kim Su-yeong a Myth or the Present?” and “Democracy in the Era of Pandemic and the Poetry of Earth-Dwellers.”
editorial board
유희석
柳熙錫
Yoo Hui-sok
yoohuisok@yahoo.com
柳熙錫
Yoo Hui-sok
yoohuisok@yahoo.com
Yoo Hui-sok is a professor at Chonnam National University. He has published many critical studies of contemporary Korean/World literature. His collections of literary criticism are Mileposts Overcoming Modernity and The Forefront of Korean Literature and World Literature. He also translated into Korean Immanuel Wallerstein's The Uncertainties of Knowledge, and co-translated into Korean Henry James’ The Portrait of a Lady
editorial board
이일영
李日榮
Lee, Il-young
ilee@hs.ac.kr
李日榮
Lee, Il-young
ilee@hs.ac.kr
Lee Il-young is a economist and teaches at Hanshin University. He has authored Innovator Economics, Korea Peninsula Economy: New Progressive Alternative, China's Agrarian Reform and Economic Development, and North Korea's Agriculture: Situation and Prospect
editorial board
이정숙
李貞淑
Lee Jung-suk
punky525@hanmail.net
李貞淑
Lee Jung-suk
punky525@hanmail.net
Lee Jung-suk is a researcher for modern literature and visiting professor in Kunsan National University’s Department of General Education. She has co-published Revolution and Laughter and Kim Seung-ok: the Renaissance man
editorial board
이태호
李泰鎬
Lee Tae-ho
gaemy@pspd.org
李泰鎬
Lee Tae-ho
gaemy@pspd.org
Lee Tae-ho is a civil rights activist and a chair of policy committee of People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy(PSPD). He has co-published The Transformational Centrism
editorial board
전기화
田己和
Jeon Gihwa
octobervoice@naver.com
田己和
Jeon Gihwa
octobervoice@naver.com
Jeon Gihwa is a literary critic. Her articles include Again Hwang Jung-eun and Swelling Mother-Daughter Narrative
editorial board
정주아
鄭珠娥
Jung Ju-a
gamunbie@hanmail.net
鄭珠娥
Jung Ju-a
gamunbie@hanmail.net
Jung Ju-a is a literary critic and teaches at Kangwon University. She has published The Literature of Korea’s Northwestern Province and its Locality
editorial board
한영인
韓永仁
Han Young-in
jwhyi@naver.com
韓永仁
Han Young-in
jwhyi@naver.com
Han Young-in is a literary critic and has authored “Thoughts about ‘Literature and Politics’” and “Two Ways to Endure the Anxiety of the World”.
advisory board
김영희
金英姬
Kim Young-hee
kimyounghee@kaist.ac.kr
金英姬
Kim Young-hee
kimyounghee@kaist.ac.kr
Kim Young-hee is a literary critic and a professor at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), she has authored The Objectivity of Criticism and Practical Horizons: A Study of F. R. Leavis and Raymond Williams; she translated into Korean Richard Wright's Native Son and co-translated into Korean Fredric Jameson's Marxism and Form
advisory board
백영서
白永瑞
Baik Young Seo
baik2385@hanmail.net
白永瑞
Baik Young Seo
baik2385@hanmail.net
Baik Young Seo is a historian and a professor emeritus at Yonsei University. He has authored: A Study of the Modern College Culture of China and The Return of East Asia; he co-authored An Analytical Study of the National Revolution of China, and co-edited A Debate on the Nature of Chinese Society and The Consciousness of the "Orient" among East Asians
advisory board
염무웅
廉武雄
Yom Mu-woong
mwyom@ynu.ac.kr
廉武雄
Yom Mu-woong
mwyom@ynu.ac.kr
Yom Mu-woong is a literary critic and a professor emeritus at Yeungnam University. He has authored literary criticism collections, Literature in an Age of the People, The Self-Examination of Korean Literature, The Logic of Literature Formulated in an Age of Chaos, and Time on Sand
advisory board
유재건
柳在建
Yoo Jae-keon
jkyoo@pusan.ac.kr
柳在建
Yoo Jae-keon
jkyoo@pusan.ac.kr
Yoo Jae-keon is a historian and a professor emeritus at Pusan National University. He co-translated into Korean Perry Anderson's Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class, and Immanuel Wallerstein's The Modern World System
advisory board
이시영
李時英
Lee Si-young
roadwalker1@hanmail.net
李時英
Lee Si-young
roadwalker1@hanmail.net
Lee Si-young is a poet and has authored poetry collection, Full Moon, Into the Wind, Silver Whistle, For Our Dead People, and Hoya’s House
advisory board
임형택
林熒澤
Lim Hyung-taek
im1767@skku.edu
林熒澤
Lim Hyung-taek
im1767@skku.edu
Lim Hyung-taek is a professor emeritus at Sungkyunkwan University. He has authored Perspectives on the History of Korean Literature, Narrative Poems from the Chosun Dynasty, The Logic and System of the History of Korean Literature, and A Treatise on the History of Modern Korean Literature
advisory board
최원식
崔元植
Choi Won-sik
ps919@hanmail.net
崔元植
Choi Won-sik
ps919@hanmail.net
Choi Won-sik is a literary critic and a professor emeritus at Inha University. He has authored: The Logic of National Literature, A Treatise on the History of Modern Korean Fiction, The Theory of National Literature in Korea, For a Productive Dialogue, In Search of Modern Korean Literature, The Wind That Blows across the Yellow Sea, and The Return of Literature
advisory board
한기욱
韓基煜
Han Ki-wook
kiwookh@gmail.com
韓基煜
Han Ki-wook
kiwookh@gmail.com
Han Ki-wook is a literary critic and professor at Inje University. He received a PhD for his dissertation on Herman Melville from Seoul National University. He has published Where Does the Newness of Literature Come from, a collection of critical essays on contemporary Korean literature, as well as dozens of articles on American literature, and translated into Korean a collection of American short stories including "Bartleby, the Scrivener," Ariel Dorfman's My House Is on Fire, Jack London's Martin Eden and many others.