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Susan Hwang Ph.D. Candidate Department of Asian Languages and Cultures University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Address: 1321 Natalie Lane Apt 201

Ann Arbor, MI 48105, U.S.A. Email: shwang@umich.edu Phone: (734) 478-9230 EDUCATION August 2016 (expected) Ph.D. in Asian Languages and Cultures

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Dissertation: “Dissident Readings: Paik Nak-chung and Politics of Engagement in South Korean Literature” Dissertation Committee: Professors Youngju Ryu (Chair), Christi Merrill, Jonathan Zwicker, Xiaobing Tang

May 2008 M.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures

Columbia University September 2005 B.A., Comparative Literature & East Asian Studies

University of California, Los Angeles RESEARCH INTERESTS Modern Korean literature and culture; Asian intellectual history; translation studies; transnationalism; world literature; relationship between aesthetics and politics SELECTED AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND RESEARCH GRANTS 2015 Sweetland Center for Writing Dissertation Writing Institute Cohort 2015 Rackham One-Term Dissertation Fellowship 2014 SSRC Korean Studies Dissertation Workshop Cohort 2013 – 2014 Kyujanggak Junior Researcher Fellowship, Seoul National University 2012 – 2013 Academy for Korean Studies Research Fellowship

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2012 Nam Center for Korean Studies Research Fellowship 2012 SeAH-Haiam Arts and Sciences Scholarship 2011 – 2012 Korea Foundation Graduate Fellowship 2009 Rackham Summer Research Grant, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2008 – 2015 Rackham Merit Fellowship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2015 University of Michigan

Textual Rebirths: Translation and Adaptation in East Asia (Primary Instructor)

2011 University of Michigan Science in Premodern China (Graduate Student Instructor)

2010 University of Michigan Introduction of Chinese Civilization (Graduate Student Instructor)

2009 – 2010 University of Michigan First-year Korean Language (Primary Instructor) CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2015 Winter Association of Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting Chicago, IL Panelist for “Nostalgia for the Empire? (Post)Coloniality and Cold War

in Post-1945 Korea 2015 Winter Humanities Korea (HK) Conference

Yonsei University “Paik Nak-Chung, D.H. Lawrence, and the Emergence of Anti-

institutional Literary Discourse” 2014 Spring Kyujanggak Colloquium

Seoul National University “Summoning the Specter of D.H. Lawrence: Paik Nak-chung and the

Practice of Dissident Reading in South Korean Literary Criticism” 2014 Winter The Sixth International Conference on Korean Language, Literature, and

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Culture Yonsei University Local-Global “Compatibility”: The Translation and Transformation of

Korean Literature in the Cosmopolitan Circuit of World Literature” 2013 Summer International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST)

University of Michigan “From J.P. Sartre to D.H. Lawrence: Dissident Readings of European

Literature in the Criticism of Paik Nak-chung” 2012 Summer Woosong Korean Studies Graduate Students Exchange Program

Seoul National University “World Literature and Its Discontents: Rethinking the Politics of Literary Modernity through Korean Literature”

2008 Winter Graduate Student Conference on East Asia Columbia University Panelist for “After the War: Building Memorable Sites” 2007 Winter Graduate Student Conference on East Asia Columbia University

Panelist for “Geomancy, Landscape, and Travel: Spatial Configurations of Pre-modern Korea and Creation of Collective Subjectivities”

2003 Summer Workshop on Translation of Modern Korean Literature, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Translation and analysis of poems by Korean poet Pak Tujin and a novella by author Kong Chiyŏng

PUBLICATIONS Hwang, Susan (2013). Trans. “South Korean democracy and Korea’s division system.” Inter-

Asia Cultural Studies (14:1): 156-169.

--------- and Brother Anthony of Taize (2013). Trans. “End of Mourning”; “Rainy Season”; “Springtime Sea”; “A Flower.” The Iowa Review (43:3): 41-44.

--------- and Brother Anthony of Taize (2014). Trans. “Injeolmi Rice Cakes”; “Earning My

Keep.” Words without Borders: The Online Magazine for International Literature: <http://wordswithoutborders.org/issue/april-2014>

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 2015 Organizer/Program Chair, Third International Conference of NextGen Korean

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Studies Scholars (NEKST) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2012 Participant, Institute for World Literature Summer Program

Harvard University / Bilgi University

2009 Language Training in Modern Chinese Beijing Language and Culture University

RESEARCH LANGUAGES Korean – Native literacy Chinese – Advanced reading and good writing ability Classical Chinese – Advanced reading ability REFERENCES Youngju Ryu, Associate Professor Department of Asian Languages and Cultures University of Michigan yjryu@umich.edu Christi A. Merrill, Associate Professor Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures University of Michigan merrillc@umich.edu Jonathan Zwicker, Associate Professor Department of Asian Languages and Cultures University of Michigan jzwicker@umich.edu