Teckyoung Kwon

Teckyoung Kwon
Born 1947 (age 68–69)
Nationality South Korean
Alma mater University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Occupation Literary critic, translator
Employer Kyung Hee University
Korean name
Hangul 권택영
Hanja 權澤英[1]
Revised Romanization Gwon Taekyeong
McCune–Reischauer Kwŏn Taekyŏng

Teckyoung Kwon (born 1947)[1] is a literary critic, translator and professor in English literature at the School of English, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea. Her research interests are psychoanalysis, ecology, American and British fiction, narrative theory, neuro-humanities, Korean literature and Dao.

Biography

She earned her PhD in English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 1980.[2] She then took up a professorship at the English Department, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea, where she remains as of 2016.[3][4] In 2001–3 she served as Dean of the School of English. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley (1986), where she studied critical theory, and at Kent State University (2001), where she studied psychoanalysis and Dao.

She has served as editor of several Korean literary magazines including Literature of East and West (1989–1994), La Plume (1995–2002) and The Other Criticism (2002-2004), as well as on the editorial board of the Journal of English Language and Literature (1998–2000, 2001–2003).

She served as president of the Korean Society of Lacan and Contemporary Psychoanalysis (2002–4), American Fiction Association of Korea (2005–7), American Studies Association of Korea (2009)[4][5] and the Korean Association of Psychoanalysis and Society (KAPS; 2006–8), of which she was a founding member. In 2007, she was an organizer of the International Conference for KAPS on "Psychoanalysis and the New Political Paradigm in the Global Age."

She is published in American Imago,[6] Psychoanalysis,[7] New Literary History,[8] The Henry James Review,[9] the Journal of English Language and Literature,[10] Studies in Modern Fiction,[11] and others. Her work on Vladimir Nabokov and Sigmund Freud discusses how Nabokov thought of Freud as a "literary rival" and a "scientist who was also a poet."[12]

Selected works

Books

Translations into Korean

She has translated several books into Korean, including fiction by Vladimir Nabokov, Norman Mailer and Jack London, as well as nonfiction: Deconstructive Criticism by Vincent B. Leith, Psychoanalytic Criticism: Theory in Practice by Elizabeth Wright, Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method by Gerard Genette and The Way of Zhuangzi by Thomas Merton.

References

  1. 1 2 "장편 '사랑의 의지'펴내는 평론가 권택영씨". JoongAng Ilbo. 2 March 1999. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
  2. ↑ "English Language and Literature" (PDF). College of Humanities. Kyung Hee University. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  3. ↑ Kyung Hee University: English Language and Literature (accessed 4 February 2016)
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 New Literary History: 41:233–34 (2010)
  5. ↑ "Pulitzer Poet Stirs Korean Sorrow". Korea JoongAng Daily. 5 May 2009. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  6. ↑ Kwon, Teckyoung (2011-01-01). "Nabokov’s Memory War against Freud". American Imago 68 (1): 67–91. doi:10.1353/aim.2011.0002. ISSN 1085-7931.
  7. ↑ Kwon, T (April 2013). "Neuro-Humanities: The Recent Discourses on Memory and Cognition". Psychoanalysis 24 (1): 29–38. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  8. ↑ Kwon, Teckyoung (2010-01-01). "The Materiality of Remembering: Freud's Wolf Man and the Biological Dimensions of Memory". New Literary History 41 (1): 213–232. doi:10.1353/nlh.0.0133. ISSN 1080-661X.
  9. ↑ Kwon, Teckyoung (2015-01-01). "Love as an Act of Dissimulation in "The Beast in the Jungle"". The Henry James Review 36 (2): 148–162. doi:10.1353/hjr.2015.0012. ISSN 1080-6555.
  10. ↑ Kwon, Teckyoung (2002). "A Gesture Life as Gaze: The Multiculture Ethnics of Lacan and Chang-Rae Lee". Journal of English Language and Literature 48 (1): 243–261.
  11. ↑ Kwon, Teckyoung (2002). "Toni Morrison's Sula: 'We Was Girls Together'". Studies in Modern Fiction 9 (1): 5–28.
  12. ↑ Calloway, Catherine (2011). "Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s". American Literary Scholarship 1: 303–329. Retrieved 4 February 2016 – via Project Muse. (subscription required (help)).
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