Rachel Min Park is a Ph.D Candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality at the University of California, Berkeley. Focusing on Cold War South Korea and South Vietnam, her research examines popular cultural works as an archive of bodily pain—one that allows us to rethink the violence of war from the extraordinary to the ordinary. She also works as a translator from Korean to English and her works include Young Min Kim's The History of Modern Korean Fiction (1890-1945): The Topography of Literary Systems and Form (Lexington University Press, 2020), fictional short stories featured in the Verso blog, Korean Literature Now, and demos journal, as well as subtitles for various Korean documentaries.
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Languages: Korean, French, Vietnamese
Periods: 20th and 21st Century
Academic Area: transnational disability studies, gender & sexuality
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