Associate Professor of Korean & Comparative Literature
Spring 2025 Office Hours: Tuesdays 2:00-4:00 pm, Thursdays 1:30-2:30 pm, and by appointment.
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Yoon Sun Yang is an Associate Professor of Korean & Comparative Literature and a core faculty member of Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. Her book From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men: Translating the Individual in Early Colonial Korea (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Asia Center, 2017) won the James B. Palais Book Prize of the Association for Asian Studies in 2020 (Click on this link to see her interview with AAS about her award-winning book). She is the general editor of the Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean Literature (2020) (visit this site to preview the book). She recently completed her manuscript for a bilingual anthology of early-twentieth-century Korean short stories and essays, “Loving, Unloving and Other Stories from Early Colonial Korea: 1907–1918” (for the MLA Texts and Translations series). Her current projects include two book-length studies: “Beyond the Medical Gaze: Sexuality and Illness in Korean Literature” and “Transpacific Palimpsests: Early Twentieth-Century Korean Migrant Literature between Two Empires.” Her research on transpacific literature has been supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship and a Suzy Newhouse Center for the Humanities Fellowship. At BU, she teaches Global Asian Literature, Introduction to Korean Literature, Introduction to Comparative Literature: East Asian Literature, Korean Cinema, Gender in East Asian Film, Growing Up in Korea, Major Authors in Korean Literature, Readings in Korean Literature, etc.