Skip to main content

Department of English

Jeong Oh Kim

Senior Lecturer

Jeong Oh Kim is a senior lecturer in the department of English, where he studies the theories and histories of geography and their application to British literature. He has published on space in poetry and the novel and has presented at conferences in North America, Europe, and Asia. He was the recipient of a Mellon Foundation fellowship, Dean’s Distinguished Teaching Fellows, and the Ellen Gregg Ingalls Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching. He provided a professional service to the Modern Language Association as a Delegate Assembly. As a scholar of eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century British literature and culture, he intelligently absorbs Anglo-American literary culture and re-interprets it for scholars and students of diverse nationalities and disciplines. He also serves as a faculty head of Zeppos in Residential Colleges. Not only did his guests stack mountains of shoes in his Kim-bob making event, but he also brought various animals, including Alpaca and baby goats, to celebrate an all-inclusive and welcoming community.

Specialization(s)

Teachings 
  • ENGL 1210W- Redrawing Fictional Boundaries
  • ENGL 1230W -Oceans and Literature
  • ENGL 1250W- The Atmosphere of Romantic Poetry
  • ENGL 1260W- Radiant Intertextuality
  • ENGL 1270W- Mapping Literary Criticism and Social Critical Theory
  • ENGL 1275W- Ethics in Literature 

Representative publications

  • Sir Thomas Browne’s Faith, Hope, and Love in Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and a Letter to a Friend, Christianity and Literature 73: 163-183 (2024)
  • Translation of Sir Thomas Browne’s Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and Letter to a Friend into Korean (forthcoming, December 2026).
  • “The Great Thoroughfare of the Brain: Road-making, Mapping, and Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe.” The Korean Society of Eighteenth-century British Literature (May 2019) 
  • “Anne Finch’s Strategic Retreat into the Country House,” in Space and Gender in British Literature 1660-1820. ed., Naraine Mona and Karen Gevirtz (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014), 147—164.   

Conference Papers 
 
  • “William Wordsworth Standing in Lyric Empire,” to be presented at ASCES, Philadelphia 2026
  • “NeuroCulture Symposium: Radiant Intertextuality,” invited to present at the MLA, Philadelphia, 2024
  • “In Search of Fantastic Geography in the South Seas,” presented at the “Sea and Science in the Eighteenth Century” panel at ASECS, Toronto 2024
  • “Joseph Banks as an Embodied Figure of Singularity,” presented at the ASECS for the Roundtable on Embodied Rhetoric, Baltimore 2022
  • “Joseph Banks on the Threshold of Cultural Entanglements,” presented at the ISECS 2019
  • International Congress on the Enlightenment, Edinburgh, UK 2019  
  • “Romantic Elements of Geography,” presented at North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Chicago 2019
  • “Romantic Thresholds of Geography,” presented at the MLA, Chicago, 2019

Buchanan Fellowship & Immersion Project