Keegan Cook Finberg
Assistant Professor, English
Keegan will research and write an essay for peer-review, “Utopian Resistance and Imperial Steinian Form in Harryette Mullen’s Trimmings and S*PeRM**K*T,” to be published in The Edinburgh Companion to Women’s Experimental Literature since 1900. The essay examines two books of poetry by African American poet Haryette Mullen, which thematize neoliberal forms of racialized commodification and marketization of gender in the 1990s.
Emily Yoon
Assistant Professor, English
Emily will work to revise her book proposal and refine two chapters to serve as writing samples to submit to academic presses. Her book project, Little Intimacies: Ecologies of Race, Migration, and Relation in Minority Literatures, takes a comparative approach to investigate how the environments in which global migrations occur inform how minoritized characters experience and understand race and relation.
Kyung-Eun Yoon
Assistant Professor, Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication
Kyung will work to advance her project, “K-Pop and Memes in Protest Discourse: Identity and Collective Membership in the 2024-2025 South Korean Impeachment Protests,” which examines the dynamic protest culture surrounding the 2024-2025 South Korean impeachment protests, focusing on how younger generations integrated K-pop culture and memes into their activism.
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