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Seongho Yoon is Professor of English at Hanyang University. He received his B.A. and M.A. in English from Seoul National University, and his Ph.D. in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
 
He is the author of Writing as an Underdog: A Geography of Asian American Literature (2012), winner of the prize for distinguished scholarship prize of the Association of English Language and Literature of Korea, and Transgressive Spatial imagination in the Twentieth-Century American Novel (2018).  He is also the co-author of At a Crossroads between Empire and Nation (2011) and The American Village in a Global Setting (2008). His articles on American literature and culture have appeared in numerous internal journals such as Societe, Ariel, CEA Critic, etc.
 
His primary research areas are American literature and culture, with a particular emphasis on Asian American and African American literature. He is currently working on cultural geography and a study of Philip Roth through the lens of age studies.

Visit https://hanyang.academia.edu/SeonghoYoon to read his CV and some of his recent publications.

Selected Publications

“How They Become Become Spectral Flaneurs: Walking the City Haunting the Cinema in Kim Ki-Duk's 3-Iron,” Sociétés 135 (2017): 53-62.
“Yeats and the Noh Drama.” Foreign Literature Studies 38.2 (2016): 46-54. Co-authored.
 “An Evolution of Yeatsian Poetics in Fiction Writing.” Advanced Science Letters 22.5-6 (2016): 1693-94.
 “‘Of what is past, or passing, or to come’: Engaging Yeatsian Temporality in ‘Easter 1916’.” Forum for World Literature Studies 7.3 (2015): 461-71.
“The Debate Revisited: (Dis)Placing the Ground of African American Literary Theory.” Foreign Literature Studies 36.4 (2014): 107-19.
 “‘No Place in Particular’: Inhabiting Postinternment America, Articulating Postinternment Anxieties in John Okada’s No-No Boy.” Ariel 43.1 (2012): 45-65.
“Inhabiting Local Contradictions, Engaging Global Mandates: In-Hun Choi and Sok-Young Hwang in the Landscape of Contemporary Korean Fiction Writing.” Forum for World Literature Studies 4.3 (2012): 421-30.
“Joe Christmas (Un)Raced in William Faulkner’s Light in August.”  Foreign Literature Studies 33.3 (2011): 63-72.
“Home for the Outdoored: Geographies of Exclusion, Gendered Space, and Postethnicity in Toni Morrison’s Paradise.” The CEA Critic 67.3 (2005): 65-80.