Mina Kyounghye Kwon, Ph.D.
Area(s) of Expertise: World Literature, Postcolonial Studies, Asian/Asian American Studies, Gender Studies, Performance Studies
Area(s) of Expertise: World Literature, Postcolonial Studies, Asian/Asian American Studies, Gender Studies, Performance Studies
Kwon, Kyounghye. Editor (with Anita Turlington [Editor-in-Chief], Karen Dodson, Laura Getty, Laura Ng, and Matthew Horton), Compact Anthology of World Literature (Parts 4, 5, 6). University of North Georgia, University System of Georgia, 2018. Peer Reviewed.
Kwon, Kyounghye. Co-editor (with Laura Getty [Editor-in-Chief], Rhonda Kelley, and Douglass Thomson), World Literature I: Beginnings to 1650 (Parts I, II, III). University of North Georgia Press, University System of Georgia, 2016. Peer Reviewed.
Kwon, Kyounghye. Co-editor (with Editor-in-Chief Laura Getty), Compact Anthology of World Literature (Parts 1, 2, 3). University of North Georgia Press, University System of Georgia, 2015. Peer Reviewed.
Kwon, Mina Kyounghye. “Translating is Traveling is Transforming: Han Kang’s Human Acts as World Literature.” Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Korea in the Undergraduate Curriculum. SUNY P, 2023. Forthcoming.
Kwon, Mina Kyounghye. “Absurdist Theatre Goes Postcolonial: Trans-Contextuality, Absurd Jokes, and Evocation in (Post)colonial Plays.” Theatre After Empire, edited by Megan E. Geigner and Harvey Young, Routledge, 2021, pp. 49-67. Peer-reviewed.
Kwon, Mina Kyounghye. “‘Bak Cheomji’s Sightseeing’ from Kkokdugaksi Noreum, a Korean. Traditional Puppet Play.” Performance and Translation, special issue of Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature, Vol. 35, no. 1, Spring 2020, pp. 1-19. Translation & article.(Translation sample readings are available at https://youtu.be/HA3fyu9cw54 and at https://youtu.be/bIv8MFazNqE )
Kwon, Mina Kyounghye. “The Syncretic Spectrum between Tradition and Post-Tradition: Revitalising Traditional Korean Puppetry with Contemporary Satire.” Asian Puppet Theatres: Traditions, Transitions, Renditions, special issue of The Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia (JOSA), Vol. 51 (2019), 2020, pp.103-128. Peer Reviewed.
Kwon, Kyounghye. “Korean Traditional Puppetry and Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH).” Puppetry International, Spring/Summer Issue, no. 45, 2019, pp. 14-17. Peer Reviewed.
Kwon, Kyounghye. “Women, Marriage, and Femininities: “Kkokdu Gaksi Geori” (or the “Love Triangle” Scene) in the Korean Traditional Puppet Play.” Women and Puppetry: Critical and Historical Investigations, edited by Alissa Mello, Claudia Orenstein, and Cariad Astles, Routledge, 2019, pp. 50-65. Peer Reviewed.
Kwon, Kyounghye. “The Hilarity of Unhappiness in Oh Tae-suk’s Tempest: Cross-Cultural Access and Precolonial/Indigenous Aesthetics.” Asian Theatre Journal, 34.1, Spring 2017, pp. 75-96. Peer Reviewed.
Kwon, Kyounghye. “Shifting South Korean Theatre: Jo-Yeol Park’s A Dialogue Between Two Long-necked People and Taesuk Oh’s Chunpung’s Wife.” The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, XXIII.2, Spring 2009, pp. 47-65. Peer Reviewed.
Kwon, Kyounghye. “Absurd Jokers: Edward Albee, Harold Pinter, and Samuel Beckett.” Pinter Et Cetera, edited by Craig N. Owens, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, pp. 43-63. Editor Reviewed.
Kwon, Kyounghye. “Kimchi and Corn: Asian American Liminality in Sung Rno’s Cleveland Raining.” Text & Presentation, 2005, edited by Stratos E. Constantinidis, McFarland, 2006, pp. 132-144. Peer Reviewed.
Kwon, Kyounghye. Review of DMZ Crossing: Performing Emotional Citizenship Along the Korean Border by Suk-Young Kim. Theatre Survey. (January 2016): 158-160.
Kwon, Kyounghye. Review of The Poetics of Difference and Displacement: Twentieth-Century Chinese-Western Intercultural Theatre by Min Tian. Theatre Journal. (December 2011): 663-664.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre, Film, and Television, UCLA, Spring 2011.
Lecturer, Department of English, The Ohio State University, 2010-2011.