Professor Chung became a member of the Rutgers faculty in 2019 after teaching for two years at the University of Colorado Boulder. Before entering academia, he worked as a writing teacher and a literary translator. He is currently working on a manuscript that looks at the evolving interrelationship between the idea of everyday life and different forms of media during South Korea’s First Republic (1948-1960). For his second project, he is interested in tracing the genealogy of the apocalyptic imagination across modern Korean literature and media.
Education
- Ph.D. Columbia University
- M.A. Columbia University
- M.F.A. Columbia University
- B.A. Swarthmore College
Areas of Specialization
- Modern and contemporary Korean literature
- Theories of everyday life
- Visual culture, especially photography and cinema
- Theories of race and affect