Assistant Professor at Boston University; Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Toledo
About
Joey S. Kim is a scholar, creative writer, and visiting assistant professor at the University of Toledo. She researches eighteenth- and nineteenth-century global Anglophone literature with a focus on Romantic literature, poetry, postcolonial theory, ethnic studies. She has published work in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Keats-Shelley Review, The Keats-Shelley Journal, The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, and elsewhere.
Current Work:
Dr. Kim's research converges at the intersection of Anglophone literature and representations of the "East"/Orient in literary and cultural history-how Orientalist subjects and environments take shape in literary, artistic, and cultural objects. Her current book project, Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation, coins the term "poetics of orientation" to describe a poetics newly aware of cultural difference as a site of aesthetic contestation and ambiguity of representation.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Orientalism, poetics, world literature, representation, cosmopolitan
