Youngkyun Choi

Youngkyun Choi recently completed his PhD from the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. His dissertation, "Rethinking Universality from the South: Transpacific Journeys of Marxism in the 20th Century" (advisor: Gavin Arnall), compares reformulations of Marxism in non-European contexts by Paek Nam-un (Korea) and José Carlos Mariátegui (Peru), and explores the transpacific migration of Marxism in the 1980s by examining Chinese Maoism in Latin America and Latin American Dependency Theory in South Korea. His research and teaching focus on Latin American and East Asian Marxisms and liberation theologies; literary and cinematic representations of the Asian diaspora in Latin America; and transpacific labor migration under global capitalism.