Kyunghee Eo

Kyunghee Eo is a scholar of modern and contemporary Korean literature and popular culture, with an emphasis on women’s literature, Korean LGBTQ+ culture and history, and Korean American literature. Using queer and feminist theoretical frameworks, she examines how minoritized subjects exercise their sexual agency under the geopolitical conditions of East Asian colonialism, the Cold War, and late capitalism. Her work is situated at the juncture of postcolonial studies, cultural studies, and women, gender, and sexuality studies. She is currently at work on her first book project, Perversions of Purity: Girl Sensibilities in South Korean Literature and Culture.

Kyunghee received a BA (2007) and MA (2012) in English literature at Yonsei University in South Korea, followed by a PhD (2021) in English at the University of Southern California. Before coming to Yale, she was Assistant Professor of Korean at the University of Colorado Boulder. More of her writings and translations can be found in Revisiting Minjung (Michigan UP, 2019), Readymade Bodhisattva (Kaya Press, 2019), Queer Korea (Duke UP, 2020), and VOSTOK (Vostok Press, 2016).

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