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Korea Forum Coordinators

Hae-Young Kim : Korea Forum Coordinator, Professor of the Practice of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Hae-Young Kim

Korea Forum Coordinator, Professor of the Practice of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

haeyoung@duke.edu
Hae-Young Kim is a Professor of the Practice of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Her research and teaching interests include L2 Korean morpho-syntactic development, bilingualism, heritage language development and maintenance, and content-based instruction of language with focus on history, literature and cultural studies.
She has published on tense/aspect morphology and relative clause construction in L2 Korean, Korean heritage language students in the U.S. and classroom discourse in a content-based language class.
Nayoung Aimee Kwon : Korea Forum Coordinator; Associate Professor, Dept. of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies

Nayoung Aimee Kwon

Korea Forum Coordinator; Associate Professor, Dept. of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies

na.kwon@duke.edu

Nayoung Aimee Kwon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and Program in Cinematic Arts.

She is the Founding Director of Duke's Asian American & Diaspora Studies Program and Andrew Mellon Games & Culture Humanities Lab. She also co-directs Duke Engage Korea, a global service learning program working with refugees and migrants.

Her research areas include comparative colonialism, literary criticism and translation studies; film and media studies; postcolonial history and theory; gender and sexuality studies, focusing on global Asia, inter-Asian and transpacific (Asia/Americas) historic and cultural encounters. Her current research examines the contested politics of cultural memories, especially colonial and cold war conflicts and their legacies in East Asia and the Asia-Pacific.

Select publications include Intimate Empire (Duke University Press 2015, Korean translation from Somyŏng Press, 2020), Theorizing Colonial Cinema (Indiana University Press 2021), Antinomies of the Colonial Archive (co-edited with Takashi Fujitani) and articles in journals Modern Fiction StudiesJournal of Asian Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Social Text, Sanghŏ Hakpo, Cross-Currents, etc. With collaborators at TNO/University of Netherlands and Duke, she is a developer of hybrid platform infinite strategy games (ISG) about historical conflicts.

Her work has been supported by the Fulbright Program, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Japan Foundation, Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, among others. She is a translator of literature and manhwa/manga from Korean and Japanese into English and was a poetry editor in New York before entering academia.

Korea Forum Supporting Faculty

Eunyoung Kim : Korea Forum Supporting Faculty; Lecturer of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Eunyoung Kim

Korea Forum Supporting Faculty; Lecturer of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

eunyoung.kim@duke.edu

Eunyoung Kim is a Lecturer in the Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Department at Duke Univeristy. Her research and teaching primarily focuses on second language acquisition, with particular attention to the pragmatic development of Korean learners. She is also interested in Korean for academic purposes and Korean teacher training program development.

Grace Kim : Korea Forum Supporting Faculty; Associate Professor of the Practice of Economics

Grace Kim

Korea Forum Supporting Faculty; Associate Professor of the Practice of Economics

grace.kim@duke.edu

Grace Kim joined the Economics Department faculty in 2012 and currently serves as the Assoc. Dir. of Undergraduate Studies and the MA Economics (MAE) Admissions Director. She is a faculty affiliate of the DFE Duke Financial Economics Center and conducts research in the areas of entrepreneurial behavior and finance.

Prof. Kim was away again with the Duke in NY Financial Markets & Institutions Program in Spring 2016 and previously served as the Director of the Duke in Silicon Valley Program. Grace received her A.B. from Stanford University and her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University.

Esther Kim Lee : Korea Forum Supporting Faculty; Professor of Theater Studies

Esther Kim Lee

Korea Forum Supporting Faculty; Professor of Theater Studies

ekl19@duke.edu

Esther Kim Lee specializes in theatre history and dramatic criticism. She teaches and writes about Asian American theatre, Korean diaspora theatre, interculturalism, and globalization and theatre. She is the author of A History of Asian American Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 2006), which received the 2007 Award for Outstanding Book given by Association for Theatre in Higher Education. She is the editor of Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the Americas (Duke University Press, 2012).

From 2013 to 2014, she was the Chief Editor of Theatre Survey, the flagship journal of the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR), and starting in 2016, she began her position as ASTR’s Vice President for Publications. Her latest published book is The Theatre of David Henry Hwang (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015), and she is currently working on a monograph on the history of yellowface in the United States.

Miree Ku : Korea Forum Supporting Faculty; Korean Studies Librarian

Miree Ku

Korea Forum Supporting Faculty; Korean Studies Librarian

miree.ku@duke.edu

Miree Ku is the Korean Studies Librarian in the International and Area Studies Department of Duke University Libraries. Her work includes research consultations, library instruction, collection building and web-based guides.

She is an active member of several professional organizations, including the Council on East Asian Libraries, the Committee on Korean Materials, the Korean Collections Consortium of North America (KCCNA), the Association for Asian Studies as well as Duke's Asian/Pacific Studies Institute.

Giovanni Zanalda : Korea Forum Supporting Faculty; Director, Center for International & Global Studies

Giovanni Zanalda

Korea Forum Supporting Faculty; Director, Center for International & Global Studies

giovanni.zanalda@duke.edu

Zanalda is the director of the Duke University Center for International & Global Studies (DUCIGS), Faculty Co-Director of the Karsh International Scholars Program, Director of Graduate Studies for the Interdisciplinary European Studies graduate certificate program, and former director of the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute (APSI). He is also the Director of the Rethinking Diplomacy Program, Observatory on Europe, and Program Director of the Fulbright-Hays DDRA at Duke.

In addition to his administrative work, Zanalda is a Professor of the Practice in the Social Science Research Institute (SSRI), Department of Economics, and Department of History. He is an economic historian specialized in the history of the international economy, finance, and development. He teaches courses on financial crises, emerging markets, international economy (1850-present) in the Department of Economics, and on the history of globalization at the Sanford School of Public Policy and History Department.