Faculty Associate
thyun[at]yorku.ca
Professor
Department of Humanities, York University
Research Keywords:
Korean culture and literature; literary translation in North Korea; Translation and Comparative Studies
Research Region(s):
DPR Korea, Korea
Research Diaspora(s):
Korean Diaspora
Theresa Hyun is Professor of Korean Studies in the Department of Humanities of York University. She held a tenured faculty position with the College of Foreign Languages of Kyunghee University for ten years. She came to York University in the early 1990s where she taught the first courses on Korean culture and literature and was instrumental in establishing Korean studies. Her undergraduate and graduate teaching covers a variety of topics and approach Korean studies from historical and feminist perspectives. Her scholarly publications examine Korean culture and literature from the point of view of Translation and Comparative Studies. Her current research involves an exploration of literary translation in North Korea focusing on the agency and the role of individual translators in the establishment of the socialist society.
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