{"id":2208,"date":"2017-10-09T17:55:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T00:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/?page_id=2208"},"modified":"2017-10-09T17:56:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T00:56:21","slug":"kim","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/people\/faculty\/kim\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty: John Namjun Kim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_heading-140eb04ede86e6bda1737a469f30d0ef\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-140eb04ede86e6bda1737a469f30d0ef{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-140eb04ede86e6bda1737a469f30d0ef .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-av_heading-140eb04ede86e6bda1737a469f30d0ef .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-av_heading-140eb04ede86e6bda1737a469f30d0ef av-special-heading-h2  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-first '><h2 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Faculty<\/h2><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_third-15d750bd1b332b34c6e70b077ebbccdf\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_third-15d750bd1b332b34c6e70b077ebbccdf{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_one_third-15d750bd1b332b34c6e70b077ebbccdf av_one_third  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_heading  el_before_av_two_third  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><section  class='avia-team-member av-av_team_member-5bcdac5998b4518f8e64fd05de8b656c  avia-builder-el-2  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" ><div class=\"team-img-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-2209 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-2209 avia_image avia_image_team' src=\"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Kim.jpg\" alt='John Namjun Kim'  itemprop=\"image\"   height=\"266\" width=\"198\" \/><\/div><h3 class='team-member-name '  itemprop=\"name\" >John Namjun Kim<\/h3><div class='team-member-job-title '  itemprop=\"jobTitle\" >Associate Professor, <em>German\/Japanese\/Comparative Literature<\/em><\/div><div class='team-member-description '  itemprop=\"description\" ><p>Ph.D., Cornell University, 2004<br \/>\nM.A., Cornell University, 2000<br \/>\nB.A., University of California, Santa Cruz, 1996<\/p>\n<p><strong>Office:<\/strong> HMNSS 2510<br \/>\n<strong>Email:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:john.kim@ucr.edu\">john.kim@ucr.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><span class='hidden team-member-affiliation'  itemprop=\"affiliation\" >UCR | Department of Comparative Literature and Languages<\/span><\/section><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_two_third-c8fc129dc35fd1ae2a1e410224d39ea8\">\n.flex_column.av-av_two_third-c8fc129dc35fd1ae2a1e410224d39ea8{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_two_third-c8fc129dc35fd1ae2a1e410224d39ea8 av_two_third  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><p><section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-2de302bf1aa3cf4c9157dbe6f50ac7eb '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong>Research Interests:<\/strong> late eighteenth to twentieth century German and French literature and philosophy; twentieth century Japanese literature and philosophy; deconstruction; gender; digital media; theories of translation; writing technologies; rhetoric and poetics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edited Book<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Co-edited with Richard F. Calichman. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=BGEsQAAACAAJ&amp;dq=politics+of+culture+naoki+sakai&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=c6SjTLq4HcT48Abagt3zCQ&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Politics of Culture: Around the Work of Naoki Sakai<\/a>. <\/em>London: Routledge, 2010. 255 pages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Articles and Book Chapters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>co-written and co-edited with Amalia Herrmann. <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B9uoF5FBKbvWSUIzNVRTalBBTnM\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Editors&#8217; Introduction&#8221; to the complete text of Paul de Man&#8217;s &#8220;H\u00f6lderlin and the Romantic Tradition&#8221; (with editors&#8217; notes)<\/a>.\u00a0Diacritics. Vol. 40: 1 p.101-128.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/leaf?id=0B9uoF5FBKbvWOWJlMWM4MjgtODlkOS00NGQ0LTk0MDEtM2Q0NDY3M2MzMzM3&amp;sort=name&amp;layout=list&amp;num=50&amp;pli=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ethnic Irony: The Poetic Parabasis of the Promiscuous Personal Pronoun in Yoko Tawada\u2019s \u2018Eine leere Flasche\u2019 (A Vacuous Flask)<\/a>.\u201d The German Quarterly. Vol. 83.3 (2010): 333-52. (Refereed; Not invited)<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/fileview?id=0B9uoF5FBKbvWNmJmZmE5MzAtMjIzZS00NzIxLThjMzMtNzdiNjlmNjk2NmU5&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Writing the Cleft: Tawada Translates Celan<\/a>.\u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stauffenburg.de\/german\/html\/fs\/fs_24990540.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Poetik der Transformation: Beitr\u00e4ge zum Gesamtwerk. Mit dem St\u00fcck Sancho Pansa von Yoko Tawada<\/a>. Ed. Christine Ivanovic. T\u00fcbingen: Stauffenburg, 2010. 233-39.<\/p>\n<p>Co-written with Richard F. Calichman. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/fileview?id=0B9uoF5FBKbvWOGRjY2FkYzItZTE3Yy00OWNlLTk4MDYtOTE4ZGFjYTk2YjAx&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Editor&#8217;s Introduction<\/a>.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=BGEsQAAACAAJ&amp;dq=politics+of+culture+naoki+sakai&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=c6SjTLq4HcT48Abagt3zCQ&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Politics of Culture: Around the Work of Naoki Sakai<\/a>. Editors: Richard Calichman and John Namjun Kim. London: Routledge, 2010. 1-18. (Refereed, Invited)<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/fileview?id=0B9uoF5FBKbvWMDU1YzExODctNjkzZC00MWRlLWE5NWQtY2EyMWIzYjVjNGVk&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politics as Translation: Naoki Sakai and the Critique of Hermeneutics<\/a>.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=BGEsQAAACAAJ&amp;dq=politics+of+culture+naoki+sakai&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=c6SjTLq4HcT48Abagt3zCQ&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Politics of Culture: Around the Work of Naoki Sakai<\/a>. Eds. Richard Calichman and John Namjun Kim. London: Routledge, 2010. 52-71.<\/p>\n<p>Co-conducted with Richard F. Calichman with Naoki Sakai. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/fileview?id=0B9uoF5FBKbvWMGM3ZmRkYjQtMDEwMS00MDAzLTlkNTUtZDdjM2ZiM2M1ZjU5&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Interview with Naoki Sakai<\/a>.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=BGEsQAAACAAJ&amp;dq=politics+of+culture+naoki+sakai&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=c6SjTLq4HcT48Abagt3zCQ&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Politics of Culture: Around the Work of Naoki Sakai<\/a>. Eds. Richard Calichman and John Namjun Kim. London: Routledge, 2010. 223-50.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/fileview?id=0B9uoF5FBKbvWNjEzNTFmZWQtYTI1YS00M2U4LTgxN2QtNjY1YzQxMTNmYTVl&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">On the Brink of Universality: German Cosmopolitanism in Japanese Imperialism<\/a>.\u201d positions: east asia cultures critique. Vol. 17.1 (2009): 73-95.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/fileview?id=0B9uoF5FBKbvWMjZiODJlOWYtM2Q0Yy00ZmI2LTlhMjgtNjEzYzkyMGZlMGM5&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">S\u00fcdl\u00e4ndisch: The Borders of Fear with Reference to Foucault<\/a>.\u201d Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture. Vol. 15.3 (2009): 383-391.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/fileview?id=0B9uoF5FBKbvWYzYzMTY3NWQtY2JiZS00NmNhLTg5YjQtMGI5OGU2NTUzNzA2&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Temporality of Empire: The Imperial Cosmopolitanism of Miki Kiyoshi and Tanabe Hajime<\/a>.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=7it2QgAACAAJ&amp;dq=editions:ISBN041537216X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History: Colonialism, Regionalism and Borders<\/a>. Eds. Sven Saaler and J. Victor Koschmann. London: Routledge, 2007. 151-67.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/fileview?id=0B9uoF5FBKbvWMGUzYzVlMTMtYjVjNi00NzJkLWE4NTYtOWEyZDllY2NjMmQ5&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kant&#8217;s Secret Article: Irony, Performativity and History in Zum ewigen Frieden<\/a>.\u201d The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Vol. 82.3 (2007): 203-26.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/fileview?id=0B9uoF5FBKbvWN2E5M2FmYzEtZWE5Zi00ZTJiLTliNzAtMmI3OGI4NjgxY2M5&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u6587\u5316\u7684\u7570\u7a2e\u6df7\u4ea4\u6027\u3068\u54f2\u5b66\u7684\u30ca\u30b7\u30e7\u30ca\u30ea\u30ba\u30e0\u2015\u4e09\u6728\u6e05\u306b\u304a\u3051\u308b\u300c\u4e16\u754c\u306e\u306a\u304b\u306e\u65e5\u672c\u300d\u306e\u6982\u5ff5<\/a>\u201d (Cultural Heterogeneity and Philosophical Nationalism in Miki Kiyoshi\u2019s Idea of \u2018Japan in the World\u2019). \u30af\u30a1\u30c9\u30e9\u30f3\u30c6\uff1a\u5730\u57df\u30fb\u6587\u5316\u30fb\u4f4d\u7f6e\u306e\u305f\u3081\u306e\u7dcf\u5408\u96d1\u8a8c (Quadrante: A Journal of Areas, Culture and Positions). Trans. Takeshi Kimoto. 4 (2002): 259-69.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Book Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bernd Kortl\u00e4nder. <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/fileview?id=0B9uoF5FBKbvWMGMyNzUyOGEtMjFjOS00YmM5LWI3YWQtODQzNWU5ZGU2M2Iy&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Review of Heinrich Heine<\/em>.<\/a> The German Quarterly. Vol. 78.4 (2005): 538-40.<\/p>\n<p>Frederick Neuhouser. <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/fileview?id=0B9uoF5FBKbvWMTZiNDdmOTItN2Q5OS00NDU1LTgxMDQtZGU3ODVkODIwYWE3&amp;hl=en&amp;pli=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Review of Foundations of Hegel&#8217;s Social Theory: Actualizing Freedom. <\/em><\/a>German Culture News. Vol. 9.1 (2001): 7 and 24.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Japanese to English) Tawada Y\u00f4ko. \u201cA Funeral without a Corpse\u201d (\u6b7b\u4f53\u306e\u306a\u3044\u846c\u5f0f). <em>Poetik der Transformation: Beitr\u00e4ge zum Gesamtwerk. Mit dem St\u00fcck Sancho Pansa von Yoko Tawada. <\/em>Ed. Christine Ivanovic. T\u00fcbingen: Stauffenburg, 2010. 231.<\/p>\n<p>(French to English) Co-translated with Flannery Wilson and Maxime Blanchard. Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Neyrat. \u201cThe Western Relation: The Politics of Humanism\u201d (Le rapport occidental. Politique de l&#8217;humanisme). <em>The Politics of Culture: Around the Work of Naoki Sakai. <\/em>Co-edited with Richard Calichman. London: Routledge, 2010. 177-91.<\/p>\n<p>(German to English) Michaela W\u00fcnsch. \u201cMedia and Ghosts in Contemporary Japanese Horror Films (Medien und Gespenster im japanischen Horrorkino).\u201d <em>New Ghost Entertainment-Entitled. <\/em>Gallery Vancouver and Kunsthaus Dresden. Berlin: Verbrecher Verlag, 2006. 54-57.<\/p>\n<p>(German to English) Michaela W\u00fcnsch and Frauke Gust. (oral performance piece not reproduced in its entirety in this volume) \u201cInterview with a Scream Queen\u201d (Interview mit einer Scream Queen). <em>New Ghost Entertainment-Entitled. <\/em>Gallery Vancouver and Kunsthaus Dresden. Berlin: Verbrecher Verlag, 2006. 66.<\/p>\n<p>(German to English) Julia Breger. \u201cIn the Valley of the Kings: Classicist Architecture in Hamburg, Altona and the Elbvororte\u201d (Im Tal der K\u00f6nige. Klassische Architektur in Hamburg, Altona und den Elbvororten). <em>Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism, and National Culture: Public Culture in Hamburg 1700-1933.<\/em> Ed. Peter Uwe Hohendahl. 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