New Faculty: Adhy Kim

Adhy Kim

Assistant Professor, Literatures in English and Asian American Studies

Academic focus: 

Transnational Asian/American and Asian diasporic literature, Korea, Japan, global Asias 

Current research project: 

My book project studies how speculative literature engages with natural history and with memory institutions like peace parks and museums to rethink post-1945 U.S.-Northeast Asian geopolitics. 

Previous positions:

  • Lecturer, History & Literature, Harvard University, 2022-2024

Academic background:

  • Ph.D., English and comparative literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2022
  • B.Mus., Piano performance, Lawrence University, 2014 
  • B.A., English, Lawrence University, 2014

Last book read: 

“How Far the Light Reaches” by Sabrina Imbler

In your own time/when not working: 

Watching movies and T.V., enjoying green spaces and the performing arts, reading, working on languages

Courses you’re most looking forward to teaching: 

Courses on speculative fiction and U.S. empire

What most excites you about Cornell: 

The community, the beautiful location, and meeting amazing intellectual and cultural workers across fields and disciplines  

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