Adhy Kim is a lecturer in History & Literature. His scholarly work navigates the intersection of Asian and Asian American literary studies, focusing in particular on trans-imperial relationships between the United States, Japan, and South Korea. His manuscript-in-progress, Speculative Natural Histories: Cold War Memory, Diaspora, and the Korean and Japanese Anthropocene, asks how the U.S.-led Cold War in Northeast Asia has situated post-imperial Japan and postcolonial South Korea within a transhemispheric Anthropocene, thus demanding a reconsideration of two common representational conventions: 1) the historiographical split between "Pacific War," "Cold War," and "post-Cold War" periods and 2) the generic split between literary realism and speculation.
Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Barker 030
adkim@fas.harvard.edu