Dr. Mi-Ryong Shim (PhD, Columbia University) teaches a wide range of courses related to East Asia. A specialist in Korean literature and visual culture, Dr. Shim's teaching and research interests include: spatio-temporal logic of globalization, comparative imperialisms, cultures of militarism, and translation studies. 

 

Her first book examines 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:

 

Mobility’s Unfreedoms: Cultural Politics of Circulation and Migration in Late Colonial Korea (forthcoming from Columbia University Press)