Faculty & Staff Directory

Korean and Japanese literature, film, and intellectual history; humanism and empire; critical theory; film melodrama; Cold War aesthetics; North Korea

ALL 1910W Ideas of Culture in East Asian Studies
ALL 3536 Modern Korean Literature
ALL 3556 Korean Film
ALL 3920 North Korea (DPRK): History, Literature, Film
ALL 3920 Cultures of the Cold War in Korea
ALL 8001 Critical Approaches to Asian Literary and Cultural Studies. Topic: The Colonial Construction of Asia and the West
ALL 8002 Space and Modernity in Asia
ALL 8920 Kant in Asia: The Politics of German Idealism

Publications

Workman, Travis (2016). Imperial Genus: The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan. University of California Press. Link
"Parodies of Realism at the Margins of Science Fiction: Sin Sang-ok's Pulgasari and Jang Jun-hwan's Save the Green Planet." In Simultaneous Worlds: Global Science Fiction Cinema, edited by Jennifer Feeley and Sarah Wells. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
"Narrating and Aestheticizing Liberation in Hurrah! for Freedom and My Home Village." Review of Korean Studies 18, no. 1 (June 2015): 77-102.
“Other Scenes: Space and Counterpoint in Cold War Korean Melodrama.”The Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema 7, no. 1 (May 2015): 28-40.
"Stepping into the Newsreel: Melodrama and Mobilization in Colonial Korean Film." Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review 3, no. 1 (May 2014): 153-184.
"The Partisan, the Worker, and the Hidden Hero: Popular Icons in North Korean Film." The Korean Popular Culture Reader, edited by Kyung Hyun Kim and Youngmin Choe, 145-167. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014.
"Seo In-sik's Communism and the East Asian Community." positions: asia critique 21, no. 1 (Winter 2013): 133-160.
"Locating Translation: On the Question of Japanophone Literature." PMLA 126, no. 3 (May 2011): 701-708.

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