Sung Shin Kim, Ph.D.
Area(s) of Expertise: East Asia, History of Modern China, History of Modern Korea, the historical imagination in literature
Overview
Dr. Kim joined UNG in 2008, after she obtained her doctorate in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Pennsylvania. She teaches courses on the history of East Asia, China, and Korea, as well as the world history survey. Dr. Kim’s current scholarship is focused on the historical imagination in literature. She was awarded the Distinguished Professor Award by the UNG Alumni Association in 2018.
Courses Taught
- World History since 1500
- History of East Asia
- History of Early China
- History of Modern China
- Korea at the Center: The History of Modern Korea
- Imperialism in East Asia
Education
- Ph.D., East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania, 2008
Publications
Public Writing:
- “The Fantasy Story as a Merciless Laboratory of History: On R.F. Kuang’s Babel,” Los Angeles Review of Books (December 3, 2022). Co-authored with Kurt Guldentops.
- “Violent Acts of Alien Intelligences: On Cixin Liu’s ‘The Three-Body Problem’ and Mark Bould’s Climate Criticism,” Los Angeles Review of Books (May 21, 2022). Co-authored with Kurt Guldentops.
Scholarly Publications:
- “Defeat in Victory: The Memory of South Korea’s Democratization Movement in Hwang Sok-yong’s The Old Garden and in the Cinema of Im Sang-soo,” World History Bulletin 37:2 (Fall 2021–Spring 2022).
- Contributor to Richard Byers and Victoria Hightower (eds.), Transitions and Transformations in World History, 1500–Present, online textbook platformed by TopHat.com (2014-19).
- Editor, The Use of Color in History, Politics, and Art (Dahlonega: University Press of North Georgia, 2016). Proceedings of the Second North Georgia Arts & Letters Conference.
- “Leveraging the China Market: Wu Tingfang’s Case Against Chinese Exclusion,” World History Bulletin 31:2 (November 2015).
- “The Great War, the Collapse of Civilization, and Chinese Visions of World Order,” Special Forum on World War I, Peace and Change 40:2 (April 2015).
- “Korean Explorations between Civilization and Barbarism in the Eighteenth Century,” Forum on Travel and Travel Accounts in World History, World History Connected 10:2 (June 2013).