Dr. Dahye Kim

Biography

Dahye Kim received her Ph.D. in Korean literature from McGill University in 2020. Her research and teaching interests encompass modern Korean literature and culture, critical approaches to media history, and the cultural dimensions of communication technologies in East Asia. A key aim of her research is to bridge literary studies and media studies, with a particular focus on the changing significance of literature and literacy in the evolving landscape of media studies. Currently, she is working on a manuscript tentatively titled "Techno-fiction: Science Fictional Dreams and the Linguistic Metamorphosis of Informatization in the Korean Language." This project situates the cultural phenomenon of online literature within a context that challenges the traditional foundations of modern literature and its criticism. She draws on German media theorists' concepts of technik writing to critique the works of Korean science fiction fans from the 1980s and 1990s. The larger goal of her project is to examine the postcolonial transformations of literary writing practices as they intersect with communication and information technologies, particularly against the backdrop of the democratization of writing and the industrialization and informatization of South Korea. Kim previously held the position of Moon Family Postdoctoral Fellow at the James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and has published on a wide range of topics related to colonial era Korean literature and graphic novels (manhwa).

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