Yea Jung Park, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
English

Courses Taught

Middle English Literature; British Literary Traditions to 1800; Film, Culture and Literature

Education

Ph.D., Columbia University
M.A., Seoul National University
B.A., Seoul National University

Research Interests

Middle English literature
Medieval religion and culture
Social epistemology
History of cognition
Gender and sexuality
Medical humanities
Translation and global literature

Publications and Media Placements

“Nicholas Love.” The Oxford Handbook of Middle English Prose, edited by Sebastian Sobecki and Emily Steiner. (Under contract; draft under review.)

“Multiply-Translated Chaucer in the Korean Classroom.” Literature Compass, 21.1-3 (2024).

“The Embarrassments of Confession: Reading Margery Kempe Today.” postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies, 11.2-3 (2020): 253–63. [Reprinted in Critical Confessions Now, edited by Abdulhamit Arvas, Afrodesia McCannon, and Kris Trujillo, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023 (pp. 107–18).]

Honors and Awards

Abigail R. Cohen Fellow, Institute for Ideas and Imagination, 2023-24