Faculty Profiles
- Jeehyun Choi
- Assistant Professor
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Primary Areas of Specialization: Asian American and Asian diaspora literatures; transnational Asian American studies; global Asias; critical Korean studies; translation studies
- Field of Interest: Asian-American, Critical Race Studies, Postcolonial, Translation, Twentieth Century, Twenty-first Century
- About:
Jeehyun* Choi studies and teaches Asian American and diasporic literatures, with particular interest in transpacific cultural productions that engage the history of multiple imperialisms in Asia. Her current book project examines the political commitments of Korean American/diasporic writers who produce new modalities of anti-imperial resistance in transnational contexts. Her work pivots around newly discovered and forgotten texts written in Korean and English, arguing that a translingual understanding of Asian American literature forces us to reconsider enduring narratives of Asian diasporic history. Jeehyun approaches translation as an opportunity to discover the rich social histories that have shaped Korean diasporic imagination. Before coming to Rutgers, she was a Korea Foundation-Korea Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University.
* pronounced Jee-hyuhn, rhyming with “sun”
- Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley; M.St., University of Oxford; BA, Brown University