People
Professors
Seohyon Jung
Assistant Professor
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N4, Rm.1411
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82-42-350-4617
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seohyon.jung@kaist.ac.kr
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Introduction
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Degree
- Tufts University, PhD in English
- Seoul National University, MA in English Literature
- Seoul National University, BA in English Literature (Minor: Aesthetics)
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Research field
- 18-19C British Literature, Critical Theory, Digital Humanities, Science and Technology and Narrative, SF
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Teaching
- English Science Fiction
- Artificial Intelligence and Critical Theory
- Worldmaking, Violence, Novel
- Humanities Text Analysis
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Major Career
- SNU College of Humanities Son Jang-Soon Literature Research Fund Fellow (2020-2022)
- Lecturer at Seoul National University (2020-2022)
- Center for the Humanities at Tufts Fellow (2018-2019)
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Major external activities and awards
- Research Executive Officer, The English Language and Literature Association of Korea (2024-2025)
- Secretary General, The Korean Association for Feminist Studies in English Literature (2023-2025)
- Excellence in Research Award, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, KAIST (2023)
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Representative Research Performance
- Jung, Seohyon. “Feeling the Malthusian Empire in Harriet Martineau’s Illustrations of Political Economy.” Victorian Literature and Culture Vol. 52, No. 3 (2024): 589-616.
- Jung, Seohyon. “The Marriage of Capitalist Labor and Population Crisis in Morrisian Utopia.” Journal of English Language and Literature Vol. 70, No. 3 (2024): 439-60.
- Jung, Seohyon. "The Uniqueness of Literary Studies and the Possibilities of Digital Humanities: An Analysis of Research Trends and Humble Proposals." Modern English and American Fiction 31.2 (2023): 129-57.
- Jung, Seohyon. "Dickensian Labyrinth of Care Debt: Expansive Economic Communities and Deceptive Norms of Motherhood in Little Dorrit." In/Outside Vol. 52 (2022) pp. 12-37.
- Jung, Seohyon. Ed. Edges of Transatlantic Commerce in the Long Eighteenth Century. Routledge, 2021. Co-edited with Leah Thomas.