Biography:

Professor Jung a Kim received her M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Columbia University and joined the faculty of BMCC in 2012. Prior to her appointment at BMCC, Professor Kim taught honors courses at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she was a postdoctoral research fellow. She studied Asian American and comparative ethnic literary studies, postcolonial, transnational, and global literature and theory, and teaching of literature. Her current research and teaching interests are global histories of economic and racial subjection and the topic of Asian diaspora manifested in literature, film, and pop culture.