***The following excerpt is from my interview with Professor Park. As the Talk Talk Korea site is under construction, her interview is unavailable at the moment. When the site is updated, I will share the link to the interview.***
Sunyoung Park is associate professor in the departments of East Asian Languages and Cultures and of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Southern California. She is the author of The Proletarian Wave: Literature and Leftist Culture in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 (Harvard University Asia Center, 2015) and the editor of Revisiting Minjung: New Perspectives on the Cultural History of 1980s South Korea (University of Michigan Press, 2019). In synergy with her research, Park is also active as an editor and translator of Korean fiction into English, which has resulted, among others, in the publication of two collections of short stories: On the Eve of the Uprising and Other Stories from Colonial Korea (Cornell East Asian Series, 2010) and Readymade Bodhisattva: The Kaya Anthology of Science Fiction from South Korea (Kaya Press, 2019). She is currently working on a monographic critical treatment of science fiction literature and visual culture in South Korea during the last fifty years. Professor Park earned her B.A. in Korean Language and Literature from Seoul National University, M.A. in English Literature at State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo), and Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. I had the immense pleasure to interview her on June 7, 2021 through email. In this interview, she reflects on her career path including what it is like teaching/researching during COVID-19, and gives insightful advice to aspiring Koreanists.
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