Indiana University Bloomington
Ph.D. Candidate, Germanic Studies (Fall 2021-Present)
Advanced to Doctoral Candidacy, May 2023
Ph.D. Candidate, Comparative Literature (Fall 2019-Present)
Advanced to Doctoral Candidacy with Distinction, September 2023
Dissertation: “Rogue Codes: On the Representation of Artificial Lives”
Advisors: Sonia Velázquez (Comparative Literature) and Johannes Türk (Germanic Studies)
Expected Graduation, May 2026
M.A., Comparative Literature (Fall 2019-Spring 2021)
Dartmouth College
B.A. Comparative Literature, High Honors, 2019
B.A. Philosophy, Honors, 2019
Book Reviews
“Looking to the Past and the Future: Review of Out of This World by Priscilla Dionne Layne (Book Review)”, Ancillary Review of Books, 20 Dec. 2024.
“Tree Spirits Grass Spirits by Hiromi Ito, translated by Jon L Pitt (Book Review)”, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 2024; isae059.
Articles
“Hands On! Bertolt Brecht Bloomington Karaoke Theater’s Der Hofmeister.” e-cibs: Communications of the International Brecht Society, International Brecht Society, 30 Dec. 2023.
Translations
So-yeon Kim, “From A Mathematician’s Morning: Three Poems.” Translated by Cynthia Shin. Asymptote, no. Jan 2023.
Year-long Fellowships
College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Completion Fellowship, AY 2025-26 (Indiana University), $25,000
Oskar Seidlin Dissertation Fellowship, AY 2024-25 (Indiana University), $24,000
Max Kade Fellowship, AY 2019-2020 (Indiana University), $18,000
Short-term Fellowships
Institute of German Studies Summer Research Fellowship, Summer 2022 (Indiana University), $2,500
Transnational Research Fellowship, Summer 2021, (Indiana University), $1,000
DEFA Graduate Student Essay Prize, 2024 (DEFA Film Library)
Community Fund Travel Grant, 2024 (German Studies Association)
A.I. Award for Distinguished Teaching, Spring 2024 (Indiana University)
Graduate Capstone Research Award, Spring 2024
Zantop Graduate Student Travel Award, 2024 (Women in German)
Travel Award, Fall 2023 (East Asian Studies Center, Indiana University)
POC Outreach Committee Travel Grant, Summer 2023 (WisCon)
Departmental Travel Support, Summer 2023 (Comparative Literature, Indiana University)
E. O. Wooley Award, Spring 2023 (Indiana University)
Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston Award, Spring 2023 (Indiana University)
Graduate Conference Travel Awards, Fall 2022 (College Arts and Humanities Institute, Indiana University)
Gilbert V. Tutungi Prize, Spring 2022 (Indiana University)
Travel Award, Fall 2021 (Graduate and Professional Student Government, Indiana University)
Geduld Award for Comparative Drama, Spring 2020 (Indiana University)
Flanigan Award, Spring 2020 (Indiana University)
Tropes, World Science Fiction, and Rogue Code: How Repetitions Matter CDG-CU-Cornell-IU German Studies Colloquium (Chapel Hill, NC, 2025)
DDGC Writes and Cross-Hierarchical Solidarities Co-authored with Hannah V. Eldridge (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Diversity, Decolonization and the German Curriculum Conference (Online, 2025)
Rogue Code: The Trope as a Methodology IU Comparative Literature ABD Brown Bag (Bloomington, IN, 2025)
The Right to One’s Likeness: Artificial Lives and Their Reduplicated Faces Northeastern Modern Language Association Conference (Philadelphia, PA, 2025)
Beyond the German Tongue: The Dream of Kafka and Bae German Studies Association Conference (Atlanta, GA, 2024)
Future Tense Resistance: Class and Technology in Raphaela Edelbauer’s Dave (2021) Gegen-Rede: „Medialer“ Widerstand in der deutschen und österreichischen Literatur (Vienna, Austria, 2024)
The Skin of the Robot: Race, Gender, and the Artificial Life Nanterre/Bloomington Graduate Student Colloquium (Online, 2024)
No Longer Natural: Utopian Promises of Rimini Protokoll’s Uncanny Valley and Choyeop Kim’s ‘Laura’ American Comparative Literature Association: (Montreal, Canada, 2024)
Manifesto: Translation in the Age of AI IU Comparative Literature Johnston Colloquium (Online, 2023)
I, We, Who? In Search of the Subject in Yoko Tawada’s Stones (2017) American Literary Translator’s Association (Tucson, AZ, 2023)
The Artificial Eve in the Weimar Cinema through Sylvia Wynter Women in German (Portland, OR, 2023)
Robots, AIs and Human Praxis WisCon (Madison, WI, 2023)
Women, Plants, and Decolonization: Stories of the Future Past IU Comparative Literature Graduate Conference: Forget-me-not (Bloomington, IN, 2023)
Beginning of an End in Dath’s Die Abschaffung der Arten and Kim’s “On the Origin of Species” IU Germanic Studies Graduate Conference: End of the Wor(l)d as We Know It (Bloomington, IN, 2023)
The Biopolitics of Robots: Life and Death of a Posthuman Disobedience Northeastern Modern Language Association (Baltimore, MD, 2022)
Which Weird Witches? Japanese Rewritings of Shakespeare’s Macbeth Association of Asian Performances (Online, 2021)
“Coming at you live, real, real wild” - Virtual Bodies of K/DA American Comparative Literature Association (Online, 2021)
Transnational Literature of Tawada and Bae: Readers of the World Modern Language Association (Online, 2021)
Female Voices in Contemporary Korean Short Stories: Translating Kim Soom and Hwang Jung-eun IU Ilinca Zarifopol Johnston Memorial Colloquium (Online, 2020)
Environmental Futures Followed by the performance Two Suns and a Setting (Bloomington, IN, 2025)
Putting Critical Definitions of World Science Fiction into Everyday Practice Science Fiction Research Association (Online, 2024)
Let’s Talk About the ‘Hidden Curriculum’ Northeastern Modern Language Association (Boston, MA, 2024)
Shakespeare and the Politics of “Tradaptation” Modern Language Association (Online, 2022)
Rogue Code: Posthuman Theater as a Feminist Adventure to Our Future(s) Women in German (Online, 2024)
Panels Organized
Universal Declaration of (Post)Human Rights Northeastern Modern Language Association (Philadelphia, PA, 2025)
Magical Things, Haunted Objects II: The Clock Strikes Back! Gender and Object-Oriented Ontology in German Women’s Literature up to 1918 Women in German (Online, 2024)
Robots, AI, and Labor: The Future of Work Northeastern Modern Language Association (Boston, MA, 2024)
I, We, Who? Subject’s Place in Translation American Literary Translators Association (Tucson, AZ, 2023)
Forget-me-not: IU Comparative Literature Graduate Conference (Bloomington, IN, 2023)
End of the Wor(l)d as We Know It: IU Germanic Studies Graduate Conference (Bloomington, IN, 2023)
Making Meaning Across Media: IU Germanic Studies Graduate Conference (Online, 2021)
Nerd Cultures: Japanese Sci-Fi in Translation (March 22, 2024)
Ungrading for Comparative Literature Classroom (October 5, 2023)
Translating Cultures: When There is No Pronoun in the Source! (September 27, 2023)
Participated
Alternative Grading Methods Workshop for DaF Educators (April 13, 2024)
Hidden Figures: Blackness and Black Experiences in East Germany (June 11-17, 2023)
Thinking with Lauren Berlant: Graduate Student Virtual Seminar (May 24, 2023)
German Studies, Hyperlinked! (September 30-October 2, 2020)
Indiana University, Bloomington
Associate Instructor, Germanic Studies Department (2023-2024)
GER-G 200: Intermediate German (Instructor of Record), SP24
GER-G 100: Beginning German (Instructor of Record), FA23
Associate Instructor, Comparative Literature Department (2020-2023)
CMLT 216: Science Fiction and the Western Tradition (Instructor of Record, Self-Designed), SP22, FA22, SP23
CMLT 151: Introduction to Popular Culture (Instructor of Record, Self-Designed). FA21
CMLT 147: Images of the Self: East and West (Instructor of Record, Online, Self-Designed), FA20, SP21
WisCon
Academic Programming, 2024-
Diversity and Decolonize German Curriculum
Steering Committee, 2024-2027
American Literary Translators Association
Membership Committee, 2024-2025
Department of Germanic Studies, Indiana University Bloomington
Department Newsletter Editor, 2024-2025
Diversity and Inclusion Committee, 2022-2023
Graduate Student Conference Committee, 2022-2023
Graduate Student Conference Committee, 2020-2021
Leser Lecture Organizer, 2019-2020
Department of Comparative Literature, Indiana University Bloomington
Chair, Student Advisory Board, 2023-2025
Translation Committee, 2023-2024
Union Representative, 2022-2024
Academic Coordinator, Student Advisory Board, 2021-2023
Graduate Student Conference Organizer, 2022-2023
Graduate Affair Representative, 2020-2021
Social Coordinator, Student Advisory Board, 2020-2021
Committee Member, IU Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference, 2019-2020
Graduate and Professional Student Government, Indiana University Bloomington
Representative for Comparative Literature, 2020-2022
Diversity Council, 2019-2020
Award Committee, IU Student Government, 2019
Korean (native)
English (near native)
Japanese (fluent)
German (advanced)
French (reading knowledge)
American Comparative Literature Association
German Studies Association
Feminists in German Studies (Women in German)
Diversity and Decolonize German Curriculum
Science Fiction Research Association
Northeastern Modern Language Studies Association
American Literary Translators Association
Korean Literature Association