About
I am a doctoral candidate in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. Before starting my Ph.D. program, I earned my MA from the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the Seoul National University, where I published translations and articles about the pioneer of Latin American Marxism, José Carlos Mariátegui. My article, titled “안데스의 체 게바라, 그 손에 쥔 단 한권의 책: 호세 카를로스 마리아테기의 『페루 현실의 이해를 위한 일곱 가지 소론』” (“Che Guevara in the Andes, the Only Book in His Hand: José Carlos Mariátegui's Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality,” was published in 2018 as a part of the book project 『라틴아메리카 명저 산책』 (Latin American Classics Review) in Korea. At the University of Michigan, I am completing my doctoral dissertation titled "Universality from Below: Transpacific Journeys of Marxism between East Asia and Latin America in the 20th Century" (advisor: Gavin Arnall). My dissertation begins by comparing how Paek Nam-un and José Carlos Mariátegui, two pioneers of Marxism from Korea and Peru in the 1920-30s, reformulated Marxism in non-European contexts. Building upon this transpacific comparison, I explore the transpacific migration of Marxism in the 1980s by examining Chinese Maoism in Latin America and Latin American Dependency Theory in South Korea. My dissertation project has been awarded the Rackham International Student Fellowship in 2018 (University of Michigan), the AKS Fellowship for Korean Studies in 2020 (The Academy of Korean Studies), and the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship in 2021 (University of Michigan).
To build a bridge between East Asian and Latin American Studies, I have presented my research at international conferences such as the Latin American Studies Association Congress as a member of the Asia-Latin America Section since 2018. Also, I have been serving on the organizing committee of the NextGen Korean Studies International Conference since 2018 as a graduate fellow of the Nam Center for Korean Studies at the University of Michigan. My teaching experience includes all levels of Spanish language courses as well as literature and cinema courses for upper-level undergraduate students.
