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Joo Ok Kim

Associate Professor

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Joo Ok Kim earned her PhD in Literature from UCSD, and her MA in English from the University of Illinois, Chicago. Her research and teaching interests include transpacific critique, anticolonial print cultures, speculative environmental literatures and cultures, and US multiethnic literature and culture.

Pronouns: she/her

Warring Genealogies: Race, Kinship, and the Korean War book cover

Articles & Book Chapters

  • “A Problem of Knowledge: Epistemologies of Terror in North Korean and US Print Cultures and US Global Statecraft.” In Prehistories of the War on Terror, eds. A.J. Yumi Lee and Karen R. Miller. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024
  • “Reverberations of the Korean War,” with the Ending the Korean War Teaching Collective. Critical Ethnic Studies 8.1 (2023) LINK
  • “Queering/Querying the Text in Patricia Powell’s The Pagoda and Sui Sin Far’s ‘Jamaica Works.’” American Studies. “Across Global Souths” special issue, co-edited with Giselle Liza Anatol and Joo Ok Kim 61:3 (2022)
  • “Memoir.” Keywords for Comics Studies, eds. Ramzi Fawaz, Shelley Streeby, and Deborah Whaley. New York: NYU Press, 2021
  • “Reanimating Historical Violence in Multiethnic Graphic Narratives.” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. “Re-Thinking, Re-Reading, and Re-Seeing Ethnic Historical Fiction,” eds. Cathy J. Schlund-Vials and Jolie Sheffer 45:4 (2020)
  • “Radical Times, Continuities in Struggle.” American Studies 59:2 (2020)
  • “‘Training Guatemalan Campesinos to Work Like Korean Peasants’: Taxonomies and Temporalities of East Asian Labor Management in Latin America.” Verge: Studies in Global Asias. “Between Asia and Latin America: New Transpacific Perspectives,” eds. Andrea Bachner and Pedro Erber 3:2 (2017)
  • “Declining Misery: Rural Florida’s Hmong and Korean Farmers.” south: a scholarly journal 49:1 (2016)
  • “Sleuth Cities: East L.A., Seoul, and Military Mysteries in Martin Limón’s Slicky Boys and The Wandering Ghost.” Journal of Asian American Studies 17:2 (2014)
  • Ph.D. in Literature, UC San Diego, 2013
  • M.A. in English, University of Illinois-Chicago, 2006
  • B.A. in English, University of Kansas, 2003