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Nayoung Aimee Kwon

Nayoung Aimee Kwon
Title: Assistant Professor
Office Location: 213 Trent Hall
Office Phone: 919-684-4086
Office Fax: 919-681-7871
Email Address: na.kwon@duke.edu
Web Page:
Office Hours:

Thur 2:00-3:00 & by appt.

Education

  • PhD, UCLA, 2007
  • MA, UCLA, 2001

Research Interests

Nayoung Aimee Kwon is Assistant Professor of Korean Cultural Studies at Duke University's Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies. She is currently working on her book manuscript Translated Encounters and Empire: Colonial Korea and the Literature of Exile which examines the legacies of bilingual writers and translators in the Japanese empire and its aftermath. Her research and teaching interests include cultural co-productions between Korea and Japan; Korean and Japanese literature and film; theories of empire, translation, and postcoloniality; globalization and Asia-Pacific migrations and cultural flows.
Teaching (Fall 2009):
  • Ames 148.01, Critical inter-asia Synopsis
    Soc/psych 130, Tu 02:50 PM-05:50 PM
  • Culanth 161a.01, World of korean cinema
    Perkins 2-071, Th 04:25 PM-07:25 PM; Perkins 2-088, Tu 07:15 PM-09:30 PM
  • Ames 175.01, World of korean cinema Synopsis
    Perkins 2-071, Th 04:25 PM-07:25 PM; Perkins 2-088, Tu 07:15 PM-09:30 PM
  • Ames 205.02, Asian/african lang/lit
    See instru, Th 04:25 PM-07:25 PM; See instru , Tu 07:15 PM-09:30 PM