Assistant Professor
Contact Information
GWN 231
Office Hours
Mondays 5:00pm-06:00pm and by appointment
Biography
Ph.D., English (Graduate Certificate in Cinema & Media Studies), University of Washington, 2019
M.A., Comparative Literature, Seoul National University, 2008
B.A., German, Seoul National University, 2000
Curriculum Vitae
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Research
Selected Research
- Butler, Judith. 『지금은 대체 어떤 세계인가』 (What World Is This?: A Pandemic Phenomenology). Translated by Ungsan Kim. Paju: Changbi, 2023.
- Kim, Ungsan. “Cruising the Art Museum: On the Migration of Queer Experimental Cinema in South Korea,” JCMS 62.3 (Spring 2023): 191–196.
- Kim, Ungsan. “The Poet and the Theater: Perverse Reading and Queer Poetry.” Routledge Companion to Korean Literature, edited by Heekyoung Cho, London: Routledge, 2022, pp. 488-502.
- Kim, Ungsan. Review of On the Margins of Urban South Korea: Core Location as Method and Praxis, edited by Jesook Song and Laam Hae. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. Journal of Asian Studies 81.1 (2022): pp. 229-230.
- Butler, Judith. 『연대하는 신체들과 거리의 정치: 집회의 수행성 이론을 위한 노트』 (Notes toward a Performative Theory of Assembly). Translated by Ungsan Kim and Hyosil Yang. Paju: Changbi, 2020.
- Kim, Ungsan. “Stateless Things (2011): Queer Cinema and the Critique of the Heteronormative Nation-State.” Rediscovering Korean Cinema, edited by Sangjoon Lee, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2019, pp. 473-485.
- Kim, Ungsan. “The Critical Social Turn of Queer Korean Cinema: Hospitality and the Temporal Economy of Queer Kinship in The Bacchus Lady (2016).” Korea Journal 58.2 (2018): 88-112.
- Kim, Ungsan. "Queer Korean Cinema, National Others, and Making of Queer Space in Stateless Things (2011)." Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema 9.1 (2017): 61-79.
- Butler, Judith, and Athena Athanasiou. 『박탈: 정치적인 것에 있어서의 수행성에 관한 대화』 (Dispossession: The Performative in the Political). Translated by Ungsan Kim. Seoul: Jaeumgwa Moeum, 2016.
Courses Taught
Spring 2025
Spring 2024
Winter 2024
Spring 2023
Winter 2023
Resources & Related Links
Affiliations
Home Department
Professional Affiliations
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), Association for Asian Studies (AAS)