{"id":8166,"date":"2021-08-02T10:53:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T14:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=8166"},"modified":"2023-08-04T13:24:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T17:24:02","slug":"yoon-sun-yang","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/profile\/yoon-sun-yang\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoon Sun Yang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yoon Sun Yang is Associate Professor of Korean &amp; Comparative Literature and of Women\u2019s, Gender &amp; Sexuality Studies. Her book<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog.php?isbn=9780674976979\"><em>From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men:\u00a0Translating the Individual in Early Colonial Korea<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Asia Center, 2017) won the James B. Palais Book Prize of the Association for Asian Studies in 2020 (Click\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.asianstudies.org\/asianow-speaks-with-yoon-sun-yang\/?fbclid=IwAR1zTbrssNstxPuG0yZRYQgvscM6UhvrzhUARWsrgEAX7dK71oaayT_YJSo\">this link<\/a>\u00a0to see her recent interview with AAS about her award-winning book). She is the editor of the<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Routledge-Handbook-of-Modern-Korean-Literature\/Yang\/p\/book\/9781138655041\"><em>Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean Literature<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>(2020) (visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/books\/reader?id=X1LZDwAAQBAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;pg=GBS.PT12.w.0.0.158\">this site<\/a>\u00a0to preview the book). Her recent articles are \u201cInterracial Romance, Unlawful Marriage: Transpacific Encounters in Early Korean American Literature\u201d (included in her edited volume) and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/read.dukeupress.edu\/journal-of-korean-studies\/article\/23\/2\/423\/135569\/Madness-Medicine-and-Masculinity-in-Kim-Tongin-s\">Madness, Medicine, and Masculinity: Kim Tongin\u2019s \u201cOh, Frail-hearted!\u201d (1919\u20131920)<\/a>\u201d in\u00a0<em>The Journal of Korean Studies<\/em>\u00a023:2 (October 2018).\u00a0 She is now translating early colonial Korean short stories and essays published between 1907 and 1918 (for the MLA Texts and Translations series) while working on two book-length studies: \u201cBeyond the Medical Gaze: Sexuality and Illness in Korean Literature\u201d and \u201cTranspacific Palimpsests: Early Twentieth-Century Korean Migrant Literature between Two Empires.\u201d Her current research on transpacific literature has been supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship and a Suzy Newhouse Center for the Humanities Fellowship. At BU she teaches Introduction to Korean Literature, Introduction to Comparative Literature: East Asian Literature, Korean Cinema, Gender in East Asian Film, Growing Up in Korea, Majors Authors in Korean Literature, and Readings in Korean Literature.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/profile\/yoon-sun-yang\/yang-cv-2022-2\/\">Yoon Sun Yang\u2019s CV<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- This adds a Home Department Profile section to the profile --><br \/>\n<script>\r\nlet profile_link = \"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/profile\/yoon-sun-yang\/\";\r\n\r\ndocument.onreadystatechange = () => {\r\n  if (document.readyState === 'complete') {\r\n    var insert_website_html = document.createElement(\"LI\");\r\n    insert_website_html.className = \"profile-details-item profile-details-home-profile\";\r\n    var insert_website_span = document.createElement(\"SPAN\");\r\n    insert_website_span.className = \"label profile-details-label\";\r\n    insert_website_span.innerHTML = \"Home Department Profile\";\r\n    var insert_website_a = document.createElement(\"A\");\r\n    insert_website_a.setAttribute(\"href\", profile_link);\r\n    insert_website_a.innerHTML = \"Go To Profile\";\r\n    insert_website_html.appendChild(insert_website_span);\r\n    insert_website_html.appendChild(insert_website_a);\r\n    \r\n  var profile = document.getElementsByClassName(\"profile-details-list\");\r\n  profile[0].appendChild(insert_website_html);\r\n  }\r\n};\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7464,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/8166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7464"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/8166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8565,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/8166\/revisions\/8565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}