Sowon S Park
Associate Professor
- Education:
- D.Phil (Oxford)
Dr. Sowon S Park specializes in British Modernism, Political Fiction, World Literature, and the relationship between Literature and other forms of knowledge, in particular Cognitive Neuroscience.
Before coming to UCSB, she was Lecturer in English at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Her previous academic appointments were at Cambridge University and Ewha University, Seoul. She has also held visiting appointments at UCSD, ZFL, Geisteswissenschaftliche Zentren, Berlin and the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University, UK.
She is currently Co-PI of the 5 year Trauma-Informed Pedagogy Project https://www.literatureandmind.com/trauma-informed-pedagogy-project and creator/convener of Unconscious Memory Network,
She co-edits Global Asias (Oxford University Press); and Critical Interventions in Medical and Health Humanities (Bloomsbury) and serves on the editorial board of the following literary journals : Neohelicon, Arcadia, Primerjalna književnost and The Korean Association of Nineteenth Century Literatures in English.
Past research projects include AHRC funded ‘Creative Multilingualism’ and IHC Research Group on Sustainability and the New Human and her publications are on Virginia Woolf, Suffrage fiction, Anthropomorphism, the Gender of Modernism, East Asian Modernist literature, World literature, Script, Pak Kyongni and neuro-cognitive literary criticism.
She is former/honorary President of the Research Committee on Literary Theory of the International Comparative Literature Association and the recipient of the 2020 Council of Graduate Students Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award.
Her blogs on K-Pop are: Global K-Pop and ‘BTS and Fan Translation’. A new Discovery course, K-Pop and Cultural Technology was created and first offered in Fall 2019.
Research Areas
- c. 1945-present
- British Literature
- Cognitive Studies and/or Psychoanalysis
- Genders and Sexualities
- Global Literatures
- Postcolonial, Migration, and/or Diaspora Studies
Documents
An Unknown Masterpiece: On Pak Kyongni’s Land and World Literature
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Suffrage and Virginia Woolf: ‘The Mass Behind the Single Voice’
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Based On A True Story: Reality and Narrative
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The Dilemma of Cognitive Literary Studies
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Emotional Policing
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Sowon S Park's Bookshelf
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