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.