Thesis Title: Mrs. Dalloway and Virginia Woolf’s Conception of the Self

What Now: Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature at Yale University

What Next: Completing Ph.D. dissertation

I graduated from Harvard in 2012 and spent 2012-15 in the United Kingdom at Oxford University reading for a second bachelor's degree in classics and philosophy on a Rhodes Scholarship. After that, I worked for two years at Dumbarton Oaks, a Harvard-affiliated humanities research center, library, and art museum in Washington, D.C. on a postgraduate fellowship. As Media Fellow, I directed multiple video projects, managed the center's audio-visual equipment, and worked extensively on public relations and outreach initiatives. I left in the summer of 2017 to take a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Korea, where I taught middle school English while continuing to study Korean (which I began learning immediately after graduating from Oxford). I began graduate studies at Yale's comparative literature department in fall 2018, where I am writing a Ph.D. dissertation on translation, adaptation, and retelling between Korean literature and Korean emigrant literature in English. I continue to write occasionally as an arts journalist and reviewer.


Read More:

• "Mysterious Displays of Will" in The New York Review of Books (January 2023)
• "Why So Serious?" in The Yale Review (May 2022)
• "Estranged Modernisms" in Guernica (April 2022)