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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