Professor of Literature
Contact
- Office: Humanities bldg. #232
- Tel: 02-2220-0759
- Email: Ilhwan_y@hanyang.ac.kr
Research Areas:
Romantic Poetry
Modernist Poetry
Deconstruction
Psychoanalysis
Foucault and Deleuze
Professional Statement:
My research interests include: 19th and 20th century British and American poetry; literature and philosophy—especially philosophy of Derrida, Freud, Lacan, Foucault and Deleuze. I have maintained involvement as the president of the Yeats Society of Korea from 2019 to 2020. I also held the post of secretary general of ELLAK (the English Language and Literature Association of Korea) in 2015. I was presented with a Visiting Scholar Fellowship from the Harvard–Yenching Institute from 2010 to 2011.
Selected Publications:
“The Philosophical Correspondence between Yeats and T. Sturge Moore: Is There a Perceived Object in the Mind Or Outside?” The Yeats Journal of Korea 56 (2018): 231-248.
“Saint Narcissus, Prufrock, and Gerontion: Divided Self and Desire” Studies in the Modern British and American Poetry 23:1 (2017.6): 107-136.
“Meditations in Time of Civil War”: Nationalist Discourse and Historiographic Reconstruction of Martyrdom). The Yeats Journal of Korea 50 (2016. 8): 191-211.
“Wordsworthian community on death and suffering: "essays upon Epitaphs," "the Old Cumberland Beggar," and "the Thorn"”. Forum for World Literature Studies 7:3 (2015.9): 447-460.
“Derrida’s Ethics As a Responsible Response: “Ulysses Gramophone: Hear Say Yes in Joyce”. The Modern British and American Language and Literature 33 (2015.2): 355-374.