Assistant Professor Dr. Mi-Ryong Shim (PhD, Columbia University) teaches a wide range of courses related to Korea and East Asia. A specialist in Korean literature, film, and visual culture, Dr. Shim's teaching and research interests include: the spatio-temporal politics of globalization, comparative imperialisms, and cultures of militarism. Her first book (forthcoming from Columbia University Press) examines Korean transborder mobility - in modes of soldiering, translation, cultural commerce, and migration - in colonial Korea and the wartime Japanese empire. Challenging the tendency to assume an association between the dynamics of border-crossing movement and the politics of transgression and emancipation, her book uses critical insights from the interdisciplinary field of mobility studies to argue that Korean movement across geographical and cultural distances in the late colonial period operated within two inter-related configurations of power, namely the imperial and fascist regimes of mobility. Dr. Shim’s research and writing has been supported by multiple national and international institutions, including the Academy of Korean Studies, Korea Foundation, Social Science Research Council with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Northeast Asia Council, and the Foreign Language and Area Studies Program (FLAS). Prior to joining the University of Georgia, Dr. Shim taught at Northwestern University and was a Korea Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the Korean Institute, Harvard University. Selected Publications: “Linguistic (Im)mobility and the Transformation of Korean Language in Ch’ae Mansik’s Late Colonial Literature,” The Journal of Korean Studies 28:2 (October 2023). “Conversion Literature (chŏnhyang sosŏl) and the Inward Gaze in the Late Colonial Period,” in Heekyoung Cho, ed., The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature (Routledge 2022).
