Woosung Kang Professor American Literature, Critical Theory, & Comparative Literature 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, 08826, Seoul Korea Department of English, College of Humanities, Seoul National University woosungkang@snu.ac.kr + 82-2-880-6096 (Office) + 82-10-4356-0360 (Mobile) + 82-2-887-7850 (Fax) _______________________________________________________________________________________________ EDUCATION 2002 Doctor of Philosophy in English, State University of New York at Buffalo 1993 M.A. in English, Seoul National University 1990 B.A. in English, Seoul National University TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2016 – Present Professor, Department of English, SNU, Korea 2010-2015 Associate Professor, Department of English, SNU, Korea 2012-2013 Visiting Professor, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania 2008–2010 Assistant Professor, Department of English, SNU, Korea 2003–2008 Assistant Professor, Department of English, Hansung University, Seoul, Korea 2002-2003 Visiting Professor, Department of English, Seoul National University POSITIONS 2016-Present Chair of Graduate Comparative Literature Program, SNU, Korea 2016-Present Director of American Studies Institute, SNU, Korea 2008-2014 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English, SNU, Korea PUBLICATIONS Book Translated Poe (Lehigh University Press, PA 2014) Co-authored. Painting as the Gaze of Philosophy (Munji, 2014) Co-authored. University and Intellect (Hansung University Press, 2009) Co-authored Literary History of American Literature (KNOU Press, 2008) The Birth of a Style: Emerson and the Writing of the Moment in the American Renaissance (SNU Press, 2003) Translation 2015 Avital Ronell, Stupidity (U of Illinois P) 2008 Tom Engelhardt, Mission Unaccomplished: Tomdispatch Interviews with American Iconoclasts and Dissenters (Nation Books) 2007 Michael Payne and John Schad, ed. Life. After. Theory (Continuum) Article 2018 “The Politics of Non-Responsible Repetition.” Voiceless: Return of the Foreclosed. Seoul Art Museum. 2018 “Between the Human and the Machine.” NOON: Journal of Visual Culture and Contemporary Art. 7. 2018 “Towards Theory Critique.” Seum: Literary Critique. 7. 2. 2018 “The Abyss of Potentialities: Agamben and Literature.” Literature and Society 121. 1. 2017 “Anthropocentrism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Otherization,” Comparative Literature, 72. 2. 2016 “Vietnamization of the Korean War,” Literature and Film, 17.2. 2014 “Writing the Unknown: Derrida and Poetry,” Position 6.1. 2013 “Teaching Literary Theory via ‘Theory Criticism’,” The Journal of Teaching English Literature 17. 3. 2013 “A Study on the Teaching Models of Literary Theory Education in Korea,” The Journal of Criticism and Theory 18.1. 2013 “The Uncanny Sociality of Fantasy Gaze in Ozu Yasujiro’s Postwar Films,” The Journal of Literature and Film 14.1. (East Asian Film Studies International Edition). 2012 “Thomas Jefferson and the Genre of Chronicles: A Study of Notes on the State of Virginia,” American Fiction Studies 19.1. 2012 “Towards the Unreplaceable Difference,” Kiritika 5. 2011 “The Materialism of Insects, Psychoanalysis of the Empire,” Translation Criticism 5. 2011 “Beyond Violence and Law: Making of a Political Subjectivity,” In/Outside 30. 2010 “In Search of a Criticism in the Woods of Theory,” In/Outside 28. 2010 “Sermon, Autobiography, and Essay: The Origin of American Individualistic Discourses,” Journal of American Studies 42.2. 2010 “The Politics of ‘Cultural Translation’,” Kritika 4. 2009 “The Portrait of a Failed American: Crevecoeur’s Letters from an American Farme,r” Journal of English Studies in Korea 16.1. 2009 “What Makes a Theory Theory,” Kritika 3. 2008 “The Logic of Parergon: Derrida and Painting” Journal of English Studies in Korea 14.1. 2008 “Bildungsroman without Bildung: Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography and the Origin of the Puritan Individual” British and American Fiction 15.1. 2007 “Repressed Racial Fear: American Culture and the Ideologization of Korean War” American Studies 30.2. 2007 “Ideologies of American Universalism: A Theoretical Examination” Journal of American Studies 39.1. 2007 “Catching Reality in Its Tissue: Henry James and the Lesson of Hawthorne” Studies in Modern Fiction 14.1. 2006 “After Literature: Derridean Deconstruction and the Literary Theories of America” The Journal of Criticism and Theory 11.1. 2005 “The Alliance of Differance and the Fate of Deconstruction: Re-reading Derrida’s Specters of Marx” In/Out: English Studies in Korea 18.1. 2005 “American Newness as a Work of Renewal: Emerson’s Philosophy of Literature” Journal of American Studies 37.2. 2004 “The Metaphysics of Paralogy: Lyotard’s Postmodern Sublime,” The Journal of Criticism and Theory 8.1. 2003 “Literature, Post-textually Speaking: Aesthetic Repression of the Literary in American Pragmatism” Journal of English Studies in Korea 5.2. 2003 “Deconstruction and the Question of Literature,” Literary Community 34.3. 2003 “’American Renaissance’ and the Americanness of American Literature” In/Out: English Studies in Korea 14 (Spring 2003) 2002 “The Question of Fictionality: Emerson’s Elective Affinity with American Pragmatism” Journal of English Studies in Korea 3.2. 2002 “A Possibility of American Writing: Reading Emerson’s ‘Experience’(1844)” In/Out: English Studies in Korea 13.2. CONFERENCE PAPERS 2018 “Site-Specificity and the Borderless Borders” Asia Theories Network (NTU, Taipei) 2018 “I Would Prefer Not Not-to: Politics of Bartleby” ICLA Theory Committee Annual Meeting (Abu Dhabi, UAE) 2018 “Deleuze Studies in Korea,” 11th International Deleuze and Guattari Conference (Unicamp, Brazil) Special Session on D & G in Asia 2018 “Ailing Body as a Host: On the Difficulty of Not Being Non-Sensual,” Annual Meeting of American Comparative Literature Association (UCLA) 2017 “Challenges of Artificial Intelligence to the Human,” Annual Meeting of American Comparative Literature Association (Utrecht Univ., Netherlands) 2017 “Deleuzian Psychoanalysis?” 5th Deleuze Studies in Asia Conference (National Singapore Univ., Singapore) Keynote Address 2016 “Challenges of AI,” World Humanities Forum (Seoul, Korea) 2016 “Deleuze as Literary Critic,” 4th Deleuze Studies in Asia Conference (Seoul, Korea) Keynote Address 2016 “Derrida contra Benjamin,” Derrida Today Conference (Goldsmith Univ., London) 2015 “How to Cope with Violence: A Critique of Zizek’s On Violence,” International Comparative Korean Studies Conference (Seoul, Korea) 2015 “Doing Comparative Literary Study in Korea,” Annual Conference of Korea Comparative Association (Seoul, Korea) 2015 “A Superhero of the Third Kind: The Irony of Traumatic Madness in Save the Green Planet (2003)” (American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference: Seattle, USA). 2015 “The Politics of Supplement: Deleuze on Sensation,” (The 3rd International Deleuze Studies in Asia Conference: Manipal, India). 2014 “Derrida and Painting” (The 4th Derrida Today Conference: New York, USA). 2012 “On the Margins of Theory, in the Name of the Cultural” (INAKOS Conference: Seoul, Korea). 2012 “Enframed Entfremdung: Gaze of the Poor in Recent Japanese Films” (Jeonju International Film Festival Forum: Jeonju, Korea). 2012 “From Obsession to Political Subjectivity” (International Conference of Comparative Literature Association in Taiwan: Taipei, Taiwan). 2011 “Ozu Yasujiro and the Naturalism of Fantasy” (International Emile Zola Studies Association, AIZEN: Busan, Korea). 2010 “The Politics of Violence and Subjectivity” (Annual Conference of Scholars for English Studies: Seoul, Korea) 2010 “Translation as Theory” (English Literature and Language Association in Korea International Conference: Kyongju, Korea). 2010 “American Exceptionalism as Fantasy” (International Conference of American Studies Institute in Seoul National University: Seoul, Korea). 2009 “Guilt and Fear in Racial Unconscious: The Ideological Representation of the Korean War in the American Culture” (Japanese Association of American Studies Conference: Tokyo, Japan). 2008 “Hector St. John de Crevecoeur” (Department of English Colloquium: Seoul, Korea). 2008 “The Politics of Theory” (Institute of Humanities Conference at Hansung University: Seoul, Korea). 2007 “Teaching Jane Austen,” (The Korean Society for Teaching English Literature Annual Conference: Daegu, Korea). 2007 “Benjamin Franklin and His Autobiography” (International Conference of English Language and Literature Association of Korea: Seoul, Korea). 2006 “Masculinity in American Literature: Hawthorne and James” (International Conference of English Language and Literature Association of Korea: Seoul, Korea). 2005 “Demanding Derrida” (The Criticism and Theory Society of Korea Annual Conference: Taegu, Korea). 2004 “Emerson and the Idea of America” (International Conference of American Studies Association of Korea: Seoul, Korea). 2003 “American Literature and the Importance of Hawthorne’s Theory of Romance” (Annual Conference for Humanities: Seoul, Korea). 2002 “The Cultural Re-appropriation of America: Reading Emerson’s Later Essays” (Conference on Americanness, Scholars for English Studies: Seoul, Korea). LECTURES 2018 “Aesthetics, Film, and the Idea of Beauty,” Open Architecture School (Seoul, Korea) 2018 “The Era of Post-Internet and Arts,” ” Gwangju Biennale (Gwangju, Korea) 2018 “Human Being as a Border Rider,” Gwangju Biennale (Gwangju, Korea) 2017 “Tropical Unconscious,” Art Talk with Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Art Sonjae Center, Seoul, Korea) 2017 “Bartleby and Big-data,” Institute of English and American Culture (Korea University) 2017 “Apocalyptic Imagination in The Road,” College of Humanities (Seoul National University) 2016 “A Reading of Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter,” Incheon Modern Literary Foundation (Incheon, Korea) 2015 “Bartleby and N-gram,” American Studies Institute (Seoul National University) 2015 “Freud the Humanist,” Humanities Lecture Series (Seoul National University Museum) 2015 “What is Cinema?” Lecture at Gwangwoon University (Seoul, Korea) 2014 “Fables of Law and Wall: A Story of Bartleby,” Open Forum for English Language and Literature Association of Korea (Seoul, Korea) 2011 “Blood and Bible: Reading American Cultural Keywords,” American Studies Institute (Dongeui University, Busan, Korea) 2011 “American Literature and Pragmatism,” American Studies Institute of SNU (Seoul, Korea) 2011 “A Divine Fiction: Puritanism and America,” American Studies Lecture Series for English Language and Literature Association of Korea (Seoul, Korea) 2010 “Mary Rowlandson and the Puritan Discourse,” Open Forum for English Literature and Language Association of Korea (Seoul, Korea) 2009 “Death of Theory,” Institute of Humanities at Sangmyung University (Seoul, Korea) 2008 “Future of Cultural Theory,” Department of English at Dongguk University (Seoul, Korea) 2007 “Deconstruction,” Department of Korean Literature at Seoul National University (Seoul, Korea) 2004 “Dreams of Literature, Dreams of Film,” Department of English at Hallym University (Seoul, Korea) 2003 “Emerson and the American Renaissance,” Department of English at Seoul National University (Seoul, Korea) HONORS & GRANTS 2015-2017 Research Grant from Korea Research Foundation 2014-2017 “In/Outside of Irish-ness” (Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Grant, Korea Research Foundation: $250,000) Co-participant. 2012-2013 Research Grant, Seoul National University 2011 Distinguished Research Award, Seoul National University 2010 Distinguished Teaching Award, Seoul National University 2009-2011 “A Study on Teaching Models in Literary Theory Education” (Humanities Research Grant, Korea Research Foundation: $40,000) 2009 Distinguished Research Award, Seoul National University 2009 “Historical Research on American Individualist Discourse” (Humanities Research Grant, Korea Research Foundation: $20,000) 2008 “American Literature and the Critical Theory” (New Scholar Research Grant, Korea Research Foundation: $10,000) 2008 Best Researcher Award, Hansung University 2005-2007 Best Teacher Award, Hansung University 1993-1995 Recipient of Graduate Scholarship for Distinguished Achievement, Seoul National University. 1987-1990 Recipient of the Alumni Scholarship for a Distinguished Student in Humanities and Social Sciences, Alumni Association of Seoul National University AFFILLIATIONS 2017-Present President, American Fiction Association in Korea 2018-2019 Vice President, Korean Association of Comparative Literature 2017-2018 Conference Organizer, English Language and Literature Association of Korea 2015-Present Vice President, American Fiction Association in Korea 2012-2014 Vice President, 19th Century Literature Association in Korea 2010-2013 Vice President, American Fiction Association of Korea 2009-2010 Graduate Director, Department of English, Seoul National University 2009 Secretary General, American Studies Association of Korea 2007-2009 Secretary General, American Fiction Association of Korea 2003-2008 Editor-in-chief, In/Outside: English Studies in Korea International Academic Affiliations Member of Theory Committee of International Comparative Literature Association Advisory Board of Asia Theory Network Executive Board of Deleuze Studies in Asia Reviewer and Referee of Routledge Asian Observatory in Humanities for Environments REFERENCES Prof. Rodolphe Gasché Eugenio Donato Professor Department of Comparative Literature State University of New York at Buffalo gasche@acsu.buffalo.edu Prof. Philip J. Deloria Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Chair Department of History University of Michigan pdeloria@umich.edu Prof. Gregg Lambert Dean’s Professor Humanities and Founding Director of Humanities Center Syracuse University, New York glambert@syr.edu Prof. Ian Buchanan School of Humanities and Social Inquiry University of Wollongong, Australia ibuchana@uow.edu.au