Eastern, Slavic, and German Studies Faculty

Seung Hee Jeon

Associate Professor of the Practice, Korean

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Seung Hee Jeon

Ph.D.

Contact

Telephone: 617-552-2755

Email: seung.jeon@bc.edu

Education

  • B.A., Seoul National University
  • M.A., Seoul National University
  • Ph.D., Seoul National University
  • Ph.D., Harvard University

Courses

EALC2330: Contemporary Korean Literature and Culture
EALC4311-4312: Advanced Korean 1 & 2
EALC2311-2312: Intermediate Korean 1 & 2

Research Interests

Modern Korean and transnational literature and culture; Questions of truth in literary and cultural representations of war trauma and memory;
Post-colonial, post-capitalist, and post-anthropocentric literatures;
The intersection of literature and minorities;
Translation and cross-cultural communication

Curriculum Vitae

Profile

Seung Hee Jeon is an Associate Professor of the Practice and the Korean Coordinator at 艾可直播 College. Born in Seoul, South Korea, she moved to the 艾可直播 area to study literature at Harvard University in 1991. Jeon has published articles on trauma, memories, and truth in war, as well as on strategies to achieve peace in and around Korea. Her numerous translations include Conscience in Action: The Autobiography of Kim Dae-jung (Palgrave, 2018), the authoritative biography of the late South Korean president and 2000 Nobel Peace Prize winner.

Jeon also translated Bang Hyeon-seok鈥檚 Time to Eat Lobster (MerwinAsia, 2016), a novella about the South Korean experience in the Vietnam War, and Shaheen Akhtar鈥檚 The Search (Asia, 2020), a novel about sexual slavery during and after the Bangladeshi War of Independence. In 2023, her translation of Minor Detail (Kang, 2023) by Adania Shibli was selected as one of 10 translations of the year by Hankyoreh newspaper. She has been honored with a Fulbright Grant, a Korea Foundation Fellowship, and two Daesan Foundation Translation grants. She is currently working on a book manuscript, The 鈥淐omfort Women鈥� System and Agonistic Memory: A Search for Multi-Perspectival Truth in Recent Works of Art and Fiction in Korea. Prior to joining the BC faculty, Jeon taught at Seoul National University, KyungHee University, and Harvard University.

Selected Publications

  • 鈥淎 Western Candy Box鈥� by Y菕m Sang-s菕p, in Island Ablaze, edited by Jin-Kyung Lee. forthcoming: Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2024.
  • 鈥淗ow Contemporary Korean Literature Remembers the Korean War,鈥� Guest Editor鈥檚 Introduction, Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature and Culture, 16 (2023).
  • 鈥淩eflections on The Tasks of A Korean Literature Translator,鈥� Euiyong Cho ed., Birth of K-Literature: How Translation Transformed Korean Literature into K-Literature (Gimmyoung Publishers, 2023).
  • 鈥淭he Net鈥� by Kim Namil, in Shuddhashar.com 32 (February 2023).
  • 鈥淪haheen Akhtar鈥檚 The Search: Wartime Sexual Violence and Colonial and Postcolonial Modern History from the Perspective of Those Who Were Directly Affected,鈥� Women鈥檚 Human Rights Institute of Korea ed., International Conference on Women鈥檚 Rights and Peace (Seoul: Women鈥檚 Human Rights Institute of Korea, 2022) 347-52.
  • 鈥淲ar Trauma, Memories and Truths: Representations of the Korean War in Pak Wan-so鈥檚 Writings and 鈥淪till Present Pasts: Korean Americans and the 鈥楩orgotten War鈥�,鈥� Critical Asian Studies, 42:4, December 2010.
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