Candidates for Assistant Professor of Korean and Comparative Literature visit BU

Please join us as we welcome candidates for the position of Assistant Professor of Korean and Comparative Literature.

Over the next few weeks, there will be four lectures:

“How Poetry Mattered in 1920s Korea”
Friday, January 27, 2012
School of Theology, Room 625, 4-6pm

“Nation and Gender in Modern Korean Literature: Focusing on Representations of Women in Tears of Blood (1906) and A Dream of Long Suffering(1913)”
Monday, January 30, 2012
College of Arts & Sciences, Room 200, 4-6pm

“Rationalizing the Strange: Historical Method versus Literary Strategy of the Samguk yusa”
Friday, February 3, 2012
School of Theology, Room 625, 4-6pm

“Gender and the Rise of Modern Korean Fiction: Yi Injik’s “Tears of Blood” (1906) and “Peony Hill” (1913)”
Monday, February 6, 2012
College of Arts & Sciences, Room 200, 4-6pm

All four lectures will be videotaped. Please see Rebecca or Danielle for more information.