Visiting Scholar from South Korea
Posted on: Sep 5, 2017
The International Office in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts is excited to announce that we will have a visiting scholar joining us from South Korea for the Fall Term. We are pleased to introduce Dr. Taeun Min.聽(Dr. Min is the person on the left in the picture).
Dr. Min is a Professor of English at Chonnam University in South Korea. He studied at聽Sogang University(B.A.) and聽Seoul National University(M.A.). He received his PhD from聽Southern Illinois University at Carbondale聽in 1991. He joined the faculty at Chonnam National University in 1993. He served The James Joyce Society of Korea as the president (2011-2013). His primary field is in modern British literature, and he currently teaches at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Recent undergraduate courses include 鈥淚ntroduction to English Literature,鈥� 鈥淓nglish Literature Survey II,鈥� 鈥淏ritish Fiction I,鈥� and 鈥淏ritish Fiction II.鈥� Over the past few years he has also offered the courses, 鈥淭he Contemporary British Fiction,鈥� 鈥淭he Twentieth Century British Fiction,鈥� 鈥�Ulysses,鈥� and 鈥淭he Novels of the English-speaking Countries鈥� for graduate students. He is the author of聽James Joyce鈥檚 Novel聽(2001),听Joyce鈥檚 Dublin聽(2005), and聽Joyce, Empire, Gender, and Aesthetics聽(2013).聽Dr. Min is joining us as part of his sabbatical and while he is here he will be doing research on聽The aesthetics of Trash in Joyce.
Dr Min is visiting under the hospitality of the Faculty of Arts, English department.聽Please feel free to greet Dr. Min if you see him on campus!
