Junyoung Verónica Kim
Visiting Assistant Professor
Frank Melville, Jr. Memorial Library N3025, (631) 632-6941

Junyoung Verónica Kim received a PhD in Latin American Literature with a minor in Comparative Literature from Cornell University. Both transregional and interdisciplinary in scope, her field of research include contemporary Latin American literature, Latin American and Korean cinema, cultural studies, postcolonial theory, critical race and gender studies, and immigration history. Her book in progress, Asia/Latin America: The Politics of Area Studies, explores the multiple and disjunctive relations and "contact zones" between Asia and Latin America by looking at cinema, literature, immigration history and Asian immigrant communities in Latin America. It introduces a new mode of articulating and negotiating incommensurable differences that provides an alternative to the area studies' knowledge-production model. Her current research examines the dynamic relation between politics and technologies of literary representation by placing in dialogue the Latin American literature of the political left during the 1960s and 70s and certain South Korean literature produced during the military dictatorship of the 1970s and 80s.