Seo Hee Im seoheeim@hanyang.ac.kr Hanyang University Department of English 222 Wangsimni-ro, Seongdong-gu Seoul 04763, Korea APPOINTMENTS Hanyang University Associate Professor of English, March 2023-Present Assistant Professor of English, March 2019-February 2023 EDUCATION Yale University Ph.D., M.Phil., M.A., English Language and Literature, December 2018 Columbia University, Columbia College B.A., English and Comparative Literature, May 2011 magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, departmental honors University of Cambridge, Girton College Junior Year Abroad, English, October 2009-June 2010 PUBLICATIONS Book Projects American Violence, World Literature (in progress) The Late Modernist Novel: A Critique of Global Narrative Reason Cambridge University Press, 2022 * Winner of the ELLAK Best Book Award, 2022 Articles “Real Estate and the Millennial Romance.” Forthcoming in ELH “Fathers and Daughters; or, Social Reproduction in the Anthropocene.” boundary 2 51.1 (2024), pp. 179-201 “Pain and Prejudice in the World Literary Market.” New Literary History 53.3 (2022), pp. 391-413 Seo Hee Im “Bowen, Rhys, and the Anachronisms of Realism.” The Journal of English Language and Literature 67.1 (2021), pp. 45-65 “Philip K. Dick, Late Modernism, and the Chinese Logic of American Totality.” Modernism/modernity Print Plus (2019), Volume 4, Cycle 3 <https://doi.org/10.26597/mod.0135> “The Ghost in the Account Book: Conrad, Faulkner, and Gothic Incalculability.” NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 52.2 (2019), pp. 219-239 “Between Habbakuk and Locke: Pain, Debt, and Economic Subjectivation in Paradise Lost.” MLQ 78.1 (2017), pp. 1-25 * Winner of the Albert C. Labriola Award (Milton Society of America) Book Chapter “Samuel Beckett’s Perennial Lateness” in The Cambridge Companion to Late Modernism, ed. Claire Seiler, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2026 (in progress) Reviews On Pardis Dabashi, Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel (The University of Chicago Press, 2023), Studies in the Novel 56.3 (2024) “Punching Down.” On Parasite (dir. Bong Joon-ho), LA Review of Books (2019) “How the Omega Male Becomes a Psychopath.” On You-Jeong Jeong, The Good Son (Penguin, 2018), Public Books (2018) “Sex, Violence, and the Vegetarian.” On Han Kang, The Vegetarian (Hogarth, 2016), Public Books; reprinted in The Guardian (2016) “The Idea of a Korean National Literature, Revisited.” Guest Editor’s Introduction to Virtual Roundtable on Korean Literature, Public Books (2015) “Conditions for Transcendence.” On Jung Mi-Kyung, My Son’s Girlfriend (Dalkey Archive Press, 2013), Virtual Roundtable on Korean Literature, Public Books (2015) “Rebellious Anti-Rebels.” On Kyung-sook Shin, I’ll Be Right There (Other Press, 2014), Public Books (2014) “Periphery to Periphery.” On Paul Yoon, Snow Hunters (Simon & Schuster, 2013), Public Books (2013) LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS Invited Talks “American Psycho: An International Morphology.” Special Session, ELLAK Annual Conference, Seoul National University, December 2024 (scheduled) Plenary Roundtable, The Third International Conference of the Modernist Studies in Asia Network, The University of Hong Kong, June 2024 2 Seo Hee Im “English Literature as a Foreign Literature.” Panel on Teaching in a Combined and Uneven University World System, Yale University Department of English, Left Literary Studies Group, October 2023 “Real Estate and the Millennial Romance.” Special Session, ELLAK Annual Conference, Hongik University, December 2022 “Beckett’s Hoarding.” University of Pennsylvania Department of English, Mod/Con Reading Group, April 2021 Conferences/Panels Organized Literary Inquiry and the Practice of Criticism, ELLAK Annual Conference, Hanyang University, December 2023. As member of the organizing committee. Coexistence in a Chronic Emergency, ELLAK Annual Conference, Hongik University, December 2022. As member of the organizing committee. Feminisms Now, KAFSEL International Conference, Yonsei University/Online, May 2020. As member of the organizing committee. Fictions of Catastrophe (panel), ASAP/11: Ecologies of the Present, University of Maryland College Park, October 2019 Modernism, World Literature, and Totality: A Symposium, Yale University, October 2017. With Joe Cleary and Jordan Brower. Virtual Roundtable on the Dalkey Archive Press Library of Korean Literature, Public Books (panel), November 2015 Presentations “Real Estate and the Millennial Romance.” Irish Literature and the Global Marketplace Conference, KU Leuven/Irish College, June 2024 “Pain and Prejudice in the World Literary Market.” ACLA Annual Meeting, National Taiwan Normal University/Online, June 2022 “Social Reproduction in the Anthropocene.” ELLAK Annual Conference, Daejeon Convention Center, December 2019 “Punching Down.” The Eleventh East Asia Forum on Humanities, Hanyang University, October 2019 “Ghosts of the Future.” ASAP/11, University of Maryland College Park, October 2019 “The Universe, Which Others Call the Library.” Modernism, World Literature, and Totality Symposium, Yale University, October 2017 “World Literature in Seoul.” Society for Novel Studies Biennial Conference, University of Pittsburgh, May 2016 “The Coherence of Calculation.” ACLA Annual Meeting, Harvard University, March 2016 “The Well and the Warren: Subterranean Empires in Murakami and Ishiguro.” Abiding Cities, Remnant Sites Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, October 2014 “Rewriting the American Epic.” ACLA Annual Meeting, New York University, March 2014 “Taste, Pray, Love: The Sensory Imperative in the Poetry of George Herbert.” British Studies Colloquium, Yale University, February 2014 3 Seo Hee Im HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS External New Researcher Grant (Humanities and Social Sciences), National Research Foundation of Korea, 2023 ($18K) Best Book Award, English Language and Literature Association of Korea, 2022 Albert C. Labriola Award (for best graduate student publication on Milton), Milton Society of America, 2017 Internal English Department Dissertation Prize (for best dissertation of the year), Yale University, 2019 Louis K. and Marie F. Kofsky Fellowship, Yale University, 2016-2017 Honorable Mention, Best Graduate Essay Accepted for Publication, Yale University Department of English, 2016 Graduate Student Assembly Conference Travel Fellowship, Yale University, 2016 Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscripts Library Summer Research Fellowship, Yale University, 2016 John Robert Forrest Memorial Fellowship, Yale University, 2013-2014 Bunner Prize (for best essay on American literature), Columbia University, 2011 Phi Beta Kappa, Columbia University, 2011 Richmond B. Williams Traveling Fellowship (for summer research in Trinity College Dublin), Columbia University, 2010 Oxbridge Scholar, Columbia University, 2009-2010 John Jay Scholar, Columbia University, 2007-2011 COURSES TAUGHT Hanyang University, Department of English (2019-Present) Graduate Seminars The Marriage Plot, 1600-Present (Fall 2023) Women, National Belonging, World Literature (Fall 2022) Histories and Theories of the Novel (Spring 2021) The Theory and Practice of Modern Criticism (Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2024) Empire, Globalization, and the Anglophone Novel (Fall 2019) Undergraduate Lectures Contemporary Writing in English: Texts and Contexts (Fall 2024) Class and Desire in the Twentieth-Century Novel (Fall 2023) Science and Fiction (Spring 2023, Spring 2024) The Contemporary British Novel: Texts and Contexts (Fall 2021, Fall 2022) British Modernism (Fall 2020) The Short Story in English (Spring 2019) 4 Seo Hee Im Yale University, Department of English (2016-2018) Undergraduate (as Part-Time Acting Instructor) Body Politics (Writing Seminar) Cult Classics (Literature Seminar) Stress and Progress (Writing Seminar) Vegetarians, Gourmands, Cannibals (Writing Seminar) Yale College Writing Center (2012-2018) Graduate Writing Partner for ESL students and first-generation college students GRADUATE SUPERVISION Hanyang University As MA Thesis Director Myong-In Esther Chung, 2023-present; Eugene Kim, 2022-present; Yunhi Maeng, 2021-2023; Byungin Lee, 2020-2022; Kyung Min No, 2020-2022 TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Literature; Critical Theory; Histories and Theories of the Novel; Postcolonial Studies; Genre; Film; Transpacific Studies; Science Fiction SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION Associate Editor, The Journal of English Language and Literature, 2024-2025 Public Relations Officer, English Language and Literature Association of Korea, 2022-2024 Research Planning Officer, Korean Society for Feminist Studies in English Literature, 2019-2021 Reviewer, Comparative Literature Studies Reader, Cambridge University Press SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY Hanyang University, Department of English Faculty Convener, Graduate Writing Workshop, 2020-2021 First-Year Advising, 2020-present Undergraduate Admissions, 2019-present Graduate Admissions, 2019-present LANGUAGES Bilingual English and Korean; Advanced French; Intermediate Japanese 5 Seo Hee Im PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP Modern Language Association Society for Novel Studies English Language and Literature Association of Korea REFERENCES Available upon request. 6