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| Nayoung Aimee Kwon, Assistant Professor
- Contact Info:
| Office Location: | 209 Franklin Center | | Office Phone: | (919) 684-4086 | | Email Address: |   | - Education:
- Specialties:
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Korean
Japanese
- Research Interests:
Nayoung Aimee Kwon is Assistant Professor of Korean and Japanese Literatures and Cultural Studies at Duke University's Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies with affiliations in Women's Studies and the Program in the Art of the Moving Image. She is currently working on her book manuscript Translated Encounters and Empire: the Conundrum of Representing the Colonized 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.
- Areas of Interest:
- Postcolonial Studies
Empire Studies
Translation Studies
Asian (American) Studies
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- N.A.Kwon, Translating Colonial Kitsch and National Tradition,
Journal of Asian Studies
(Accepted, 2013)
- N.A.Kwon, Primitive Selves: Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze 1910-1945,
Pacific Affairs
(March, 2012)
- with N.A. Kwon, Decolonial Aesthetics in Asia
(2012), Hong Kong University Press
- with N.A.Kwon, Transcolonial Filmic Coproductions,
Cross Currents
(2012)
- N.A. Kwon, From Wonso Pond,
Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 70 no. 4
(November, 2011)
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