Jinah Kim
Professor

Brief Biography

Jinah Kim's research focuses on the American Century in Asia, decolonizing Korea, and legacies of US militarism in the Asia-Pacific. She is the recipient of the 2020-2021 National Endowment for the Humanities Award and the 2020 California Civil Liberties Grant.

Monographs in Progress:
-Against Forgetting: Transpacific Organizing for the Comfort Women for submission to Duke UP
-Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Korea for submission to Duke UP

Select Published Work:
-Monograph: Postcolonial Grief and the Afterlife of the Pacific Wars in the Americas. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2019
-“Transpacific Noir: Literary Nuclear Entanglements.” Diaspora and Literary Studies. Cambridge UP, 2023.
-Co-editor, “Interventions in Pacific Islands Studies and Trans-Pacific Studies,” Critical Ethnic Studies, fall 2021.
-"The Insurgency of Mourning: Sewol across the Transpacific." Amerasia, Volume 46, 2020.
-Kim and Atanososki. “Queer Desire and Subjectivity within Postmodern Geographies: Argentina and Hong -Kong in Wong Kar-Wai’s Happy Together.” American Quarterly, Vol. 71.3. September 2017.
-“Dismantling Privileged Settings: Japanese American Internees and Mexican “Braceros” at the Crossroads of WWII.” Transnational Crossroads: Reimagining Asian America, Latin@ America, and the American Pacific. Eds. Fojas and Guevarra, Jr., U Nebraska P, 2012.
-“Immigrants, Racial Citizens, and the (Multi)Cultural Politics of Neoliberal Los Angeles,” Social Justice Vol. 35, No. 2, 2008.

Research 

Postocolonial Studies Asian and Asian American studies Cultural Studies Literature in English, North America, Ethnic and Cultural Minority

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