Research Interests for Nayoung Aimee Kwon

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

1. N.A.Kwon, Primitive Selves: Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze 1910-1945, Pacific Affairs (March, 2012)
2. with N.A. Kwon, Decolonial Aesthetics in Asia (2012), Hong Kong University Press
3. with N.A.Kwon, Transcolonial Filmic Coproductions, Cross Currents (2012)
4. N.A.Kwon, Translating Colonial Kitsch and National Tradition, Journal of Asian Studies (Submitted, 2012)
5. N.A. Kwon, From Wonso Pond, Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 70 no. 4 (November, 2011)