Associate Professor
Biography
Ph.D. East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
Current Research Projects:
- The literary and cultural relationship among Korea, Russia, and Japan
- Translation studies
- Seriality in cultural production
- Popular culture and comics
Research
Selected Research
- Cho, Heekyoung. 2025. “Reverse Digital Seriality: The Unbundling and Repackaging of the Book.” The Journal of Asian Studies 84, no. 1 (February): 55-80.
- Cho, Heekyoung. 2024. “Blog Serials: Digital Literature, Seriality, Readerly Performativity.” Journal of Korean Studies 29, no. 2 (October): 273-301.
- Cho, Heekyoung. 2023. “Chekhov in East Asia.” In Chekhov in Context, edited by Yuri Corrigan, 244-250. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Cho, Heekyoung. 2023. Review of Transnational Hallyu: The Globalization of Korean Digital and Popular Culture, by Dal Yong Jin, Kyong Yoon, and Wonjung Min. Journal of Asian Studies 82, no. 4 (November): 731-732.
- Cho, Heekyoung. 2022. “Redefined and Challenged: Anthologizing Korean Literary Studies.” In The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature, edited by Heekyoung Cho, 1-13. New York: Routledge.
- Cho, Heekyoung, ed. 2022. The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature. New York: Routledge.
- Cho, Heekyoung. 2021. “World Literature as Process and Relation: East Asia’s Russia and Translation.” In The Cambridge History of World Literature, edited by Debjani Ganguly, 566-584. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Cho, Heekyoung. 2021. “The Platformization of Culture: Webtoon Platforms and Media Ecology in Korea and Beyond.” The Journal of Asian Studies 80, no. 1 (February): 73-93.
- Cho, Heekyoung. 2019. Review of Reading Colonial Korea through Fiction: The Ventriloquists, by Kim Chul. Translated by Yoon Hye-Joon. Journal of Asian Studies 78, no. 2 (May): 460-461.
- Cho, Heekyoung. 2018. “Rethinking World Literature through the Relations between Russian and East Asian Literatures.” Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review 7, no. 2 (November): 397-422.
- Cho, Heekyoung. 2017. “Transnationality and Coloniality in the Concept of Modern Korean Literature." Journal of Korean Studies 22, no. 1 (Spring): 69-99.
- Cho, Heekyoung. 2016, Review of Tong-asia kŭndae chisik kwa pŏnyŏk ŭi chihyŏng (East Asian modern knowledge and the topography of translation), edited by Ewha Institute for the Humanities. Trans-Humanities 9, no. 3 (October): 235-240.
- Cho, Heekyoung. 2016. “The Webtoon: A New Form for Graphic Narrative”The Comics Journal, (July 18), 6,915 words. (http://www.tcj.com/the-webtoon-a-new-form-for-graphic-narrative/)
- Cho, Heekyoung. 2016. “Translation and Censorship: Colonial Writing and Anti-imperial Imagination of Asia in 1910s Korea.” In Spaces of Possibility: In, Between and Beyond Korea and Japan, edited by Andrea Arai and Clark Sorenson, 290-308. Seattle: University of Washington.
- Cho, Heekyoung. 2016. Translation’s Forgotten History: Russian Literature, Japanese Mediation, and the Formation of Modern Korean Literature. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Asia Center.
- Heekyoung Cho. "Book Review of Pak Kyŏng-ni, Land." The Journal of Korean Studies 18:1 University of Washington: 2013.
- Cho, Heekyoung. 2013. "Imagined, Transcultural, and Colonial Spaces in Print: Newspaper serialization of Translated Novels in Colonial Korea." East Asian Publishing and Society 3 (2): 153-183.
- Heekyoung Cho. "Rewriting Chekohov: Translation, Journalism, and Modern Literature in 1920s Korea." U.S.-Japan Women's Journal 35 (2008): 26-53.
- Cho, Heekyoung. “Reverse Digital Seriality: The Unbundling and Repackaging of the Book.” The Journal of Asian Studies 84, no. 1 (February 2025): 55-80.
Courses Taught
Spring 2025
Winter 2025
Autumn 2024
Spring 2024
Winter 2024
Winter 2023
Autumn 2022
Spring 2022
Winter 2022
Autumn 2021
Spring 2021
Winter 2021
Autumn 2020
Spring 2020
Winter 2020
Autumn 2019
Winter 2018
Additional Courses
Spring 2020
- ASIAN 590A: Seminar in Translation Studies
Affiliations
Home Department
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Related News
Related News
- Online Database of English Translations of Korean Literature Goes Live (May 5, 2025)
- Professor Heekyoung Cho Featured in HUMANITIES Magazine (February 2, 2024)
- The Origins of the South Korean Film Renaissance Conference (November 28, 2023)
- Heekyoung Cho Publishes The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature (March 23, 2022)
- Asian L&L Seeks Assistant Professor in Korean Literature, Cultural Studies, or Film and Media Studies (September 7, 2021)
- Translation Studies Hub Colloquium To Feature AL&L Faculty (January 11, 2021)
- Heekyoung Cho Publishes Translation’s Forgotten History: Russian Literature, Japanese Mediation, and the Formation of Modern Korean Literature (May 19, 2016)
- Prof. Heekyoung Cho Receives NEH and ACLS Fellowships for 2014-15 (April 9, 2014)
- Dr. Heekyoung Cho to assume position in Korean program (June 1, 2010)