The Diasporic Afterlives of Gwangju: Minor Identifications and Cathy Park Hong’s Dance Dance Revolution

Daniel Y. Kim is Professor of American Studies and English at Brown University, where he teaches classes in Asian American literature, American literature, and Ethnic Studies. He has also taught as the Norman Freehling Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan’s Institute for the Humanities and as a Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies at Yale University. He earned his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and his AB from the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Intimacies of Conflict: Cultural Memory and the Korean War (NYU Press, 2020) and Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, and the Literary Politics of Identity (Stanford University Press, 2006) and the co-editor (with Crystal Parikh) of The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2015). His essays have been published in a number of journals, including American Literary History, American Quarterly, Criticism, Cross-Currents, Journal of Asian American Studies, New Literary History, Novel, and positions.