Yea Jung Park, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
English
Courses Taught
Middle English Literature; British Literary Traditions to 1800; Film, Culture and Literature
Education
Ph.D., Columbia University
M.A., Seoul National University
B.A., Seoul National University
Research Interests
- Middle English literature
- Medieval religion and culture
- Social epistemology
- History of cognition
- Gender and sexuality
- Medical humanities
- Translation and global literature
Publications and Media Placements
“Nicholas Love.” The Oxford Handbook of Middle English Prose, edited by Sebastian Sobecki and Emily Steiner. (Under contract; draft under review.)
“Multiply-Translated Chaucer in the Korean Classroom.” Literature Compass, 21.1-3 (2024).
“The Embarrassments of Confession: Reading Margery Kempe Today.” postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies, 11.2-3 (2020): 253–63. [Reprinted in Critical Confessions Now, edited by Abdulhamit Arvas, Afrodesia McCannon, and Kris Trujillo, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023 (pp. 107–18).]
Honors and Awards
Abigail R. Cohen Fellow, Institute for Ideas and Imagination, 2023-24