JU YON KIM Assistant Professor of English Harvard University Barker Center 066 Tel: (562) 964-9723 12 Quincy Street Fax: (617) 496-8737 Cambridge, MA 02138 juyonkim@fas.harvard.edu EDUCATION Ph.D. Stanford University Program in Modern Thought and Literature, March 2011 B.A. Yale University, summa cum laude English Department, May 2002 APPOINTMENTS 2011-present Assistant Professor, English Department, Harvard University 2011 Lecturer, Asian American Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara (spring quarter) RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Asian American Performance, Literature, and Film; American Theater and Popular Culture; Contemporary American Fiction; Intercultural and Cross-Racial Performances; Interdisciplinary Studies of Race and Ethnicity; Theories of Performance and the Everyday. AWARDS AND HONORS 2013-14 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Visiting Scholar 2012, 2013 Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Elson Art-Making Fund 2011-12 Harvard University Provost Fund for Interfaculty Collaboration 2011-13 Dartmouth College Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined) 2009-10 Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity Teaching Fellowship, Stanford University 2008-09 Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship 2003-04 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies 2002 Phi Beta Kappa 2002 Branford College Student Marshal, Yale Commencement 1999 J. Edward Meeker Prize in English, Yale English Department
Ju Yon Kim curriculum vitae 2 BOOKS 2015 The Racial Mundane: Asian American Performance and the Embodied Everyday, New York University Press, forthcoming May 2015. In progress Suspect Audiences and the Spaces of Asian American Performance. PUBLICATIONS (PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES) 2012 When Marco Leaves the Building: Intercultural Performances and Other Audiences, Modernism/modernity 19.4 (November 2012): 677-692. 2012 Across a Different Table: Strange and Familiar Encounters in Asian American Cinema, Journal of Transnational American Studies 4.1 (Summer 2012). 2010 The Difference a Smile Can Make: Interracial Conflict and Cross-Racial Performance in Kimchee and Chitlins, Modern Drama 53.4 (Winter 2010): 533-556. 2010 Trying on The Yellow Jacket: Performing Chinese Exclusion and Assimilation, Theatre Journal 62.1 (March 2010): 75-92. Revised version will be included at editors invitation in Experiments in Democracy: Interracial and Cross-cultural Exchange in American Theatre and Performance During the Pre- Civil Rights Era (forthcoming, Southern Illinois University Press). ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS -- Adjusted Perspectives: Adapting And the Soul Shall Dance and Dogeaters for the Stage, Asian American Performance Reader, edited collection (accepted). 2014 Remembring Sa-I-Gu: An Interview with Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, Transition 113 (2014): 144-152. 2013 Review of Cherise Smith s Enacting Others, Theatre Journal 65.2 (May 2013): 306-307. 2013 A House of Many Rooms: Gish Jen s Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self, The ArtsFuse, 17 April 2013, < http://artsfuse.org/80102/fuse-book-review-ahouse-of-many-doors-gish-jens-tiger-writing/>. CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED TALKS (SELECTED) 2015 Adapting And the Soul Shall Dance for the Stage, Association of Asian American Studies Conference, Chicago, April 2015. 2015 The Model Minority and Its Doubles, Yale Asian American Studies Conference, New Haven, February 2015 (invited speaker). 2014 State of the Profession panel, American Society for Theatre Research, Baltimore, November 2014.
Ju Yon Kim curriculum vitae 3 SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED TALKS (CONTINUED) 2014 Suspect Audiences and the Spaces of Asian American Performance, Global Perspectives on Cinema, Literature, and Culture, Yonsei Summer International Conference, Seoul, South Korea, July 2014 (invited plenary speaker). 2014 Performance Studies Reorient, roundtable, Performance Studies international, Shanghai, China, July 2014. 2014 Crossings Made of Memories, Crossings Made by Trade: Two Versions of Mia Chung s You for Me for You, Local Theatre, Global Impact Symposium, Tufts University, April 2014 (invited speaker). 2014 The Code of the Kitchen : Lessons in Masculinity and Audience, Association of Asian American Studies Conference, San Francisco, April 2014. 2014 Aiiieeeee! s Shocked Reader and the Suspect Audiences of Asian American Drama, Aiiieeeee and Asian American Literature 40 Years Later Roundtable, Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Chicago, January 2014. 2013 The Model Minority and Its Doubles in Ching Chong Chinaman, Everyday Life: Histories of the Ordinary, Persistent, and Repeated Working Session, American Society for Theatre Research, Dallas, November 2013. 2013 Crossing Empire s Remains: Memory and Substitution in You For Me For You, Association for Asian American Studies Conference, Seattle, April 2013. 2012 Making Asian American Masculinity Mundane: Yellow Fever on the Internet, Everyday Life: Histories of the Ordinary, Persistent, and Repeated Working Session, American Society for Theatre Research, Nashville, November 2012. 2012 Filling in the Blanks: Relational Casting and Unstoried Lives in The Piano Teacher, Association for Asian American Studies Conference, Washington, DC, April 2012. 2012 Trying on The Yellow Jacket at the Limits of Our Town, public lecture, Harvard University, April 2012. 2012 When Marco Leaves the Building: Intercultural Performances and Other Audiences, Mahindra Humanities Center New Faculty Luncheon, Harvard University, March 2012. 2011 How Can Theater Reshape Interracial Relations? Ask Big Questions Series, Committee on Ethnic Studies, Harvard University, November 2011. 2009 New York Travels to China: The Staged Detours of Modernism and Tourism, Performing Modernism Working Session, American Society for Theatre Research Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 2009. 2008 Mundane Rituals and the Performance of Community in Tea, Asian American Theatre Working Session, American Society for Theatre Research Conference, Boston, November 2008. 2008 Forced Dispersals and the Performance of Community in Itsuka and Tea, Association for Asian American Studies Conference, Chicago, April 2008. 2007 That s not what happened at all : Cross-Racial Performances in Kimchee and Chitlins and Twilight, Performance Studies international (PSi) Conference, New York University, November 2007. 2007 Playing the Part, Burying the Body: Racial Performance and Performativity, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Chicago, March 2007.
Ju Yon Kim curriculum vitae 4 COURSES (SELECTED) Harvard University Literary Migrations: American Horrors, English, Spring 2015 New Research in Theater and Performance Studies (graduate seminar), English, Fall 2014 Introduction to Asian American Literature: What Is Asian American Literature? English, Fall 2014, 2012, and 2011 Cut-Tongue Theaters: Asian American and Chicana/o Playwrights, English, Spring 2013 Waste: Contemporary Novels of Abjection, English, Fall 2012 American Drama: 1787 to the Present, English, Spring 2012 and 2013 Interracial Encounters in Contemporary Ethnic American Narratives, English, Spring 2012 Set in Motion: Contemporary American Fiction, English, Fall 2011 UNIVERSITY AND DEPARTMENT SERVICE 2014-15 and Faculty Co-Director, Drama Colloquium, Mahindra Humanities Center 2012-13 Interdisciplinary Graduate Workshop 2014-15 and Director of Junior Tutorials (formerly, Junior Tutorial Coordinator), English 2012-13 Department 2014-15 Harvard Keasbey Scholarship Nomination Committee 2014-15 Women and Gender Studies Standing Committee 2012-13 Tenure-Track Drama Search, Hiring Committee, English Department 2012- Standing Committee on Higher Degrees in American Studies 2011- Standing Committee on Ethnic Studies/Ethnicity, Migration, Rights 2011- Standing Committee on Dramatic Arts 2011-12 Graduate Admissions Committee, English Department ADDITIONAL UNIVERSITY AFFILIATIONS 2011- Faculty Associate, Korea Institute 2012-13 Council on Asian Studies Standing Committee ACADEMIC SERVICE 2013- Book Review Editor, Modern Drama 2013 Co-organizer, Asian American Theater and Performance Symposium, Harvard University, March 29 2012 Co-organizer, The L.A. Riots: Twenty Years Later Symposium, Harvard University, April 27-28 2011- Reviewer for Modern Drama, Modernism/modernity, and the Journal of Transnational American Studies
Ju Yon Kim curriculum vitae 5 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Society for Theatre Research American Studies Association Association for Theatre in Higher Education Association for Asian American Studies Modern Language Association ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE (THEATER) 2013- Programming Committee, Company One, Boston 2007 Playwright, A Crooked Line (full-length play), Asian American Theater Project, produced April 2007, Stanford University 2000-02 Writer and performer, Jook Songs, Asian American writing performance workshop, New Haven