Education

M.A., Ewha Womans University, 2018
B.A., Ewha Womans University, 2014

Bio

Seulgiye Kim has a B.A. and an M.A. in English Literature from Ewha Womans University, Korea and is now working towards her Ph.D. in the English department at Texas A&M. Her main interests lie in investigating different implications of labor and productivity in a highly developed capitalist society. She seeks to conduct further studies on contemporary transnational American novels to attain a better understanding of the possibility for a future that resists the capitalist imperative, and exploitation, of human productivity.

Research Interests

• 20th and 21st Century Studies
• African American and Diaspora Literature
• American Literature and Culture
• Gender and Sexuality Studies
• Transnational Literatures

Accomplishments

Publications

• “Virtue Rediscovered in Samuel Richardson’s Pamela.” Journal of Eighteenth Century English Literature, vol. 16, no. 2, 2019, pp. 143-166.
• “Racism and Alienation: Deconstructing the Strong Black Woman in Langston Hughes’s ‘Cora Unashamed.’” Journal of American Studies, vol. 50, no. 2, 2018, pp. 235-255.
• “African-American Male Identity Re-defined in Leonard Pitts, Jr.’s Before I Forget.” Journal of English and American Studies. Vol.15, No.1, 2016, pp. 117-137.