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{{short description|Korean American academic, poet and activist}}
{{short description|Korean American academic, poet and activist}}
{{Infobox writer
{{Infobox writer
| name = Seo-Young Chu
| name = Seo-Young Jennie Chu
| birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1978|02|14}}
| birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1978|02|14}}
| birth_place = [[Virginia]]
| birth_place = [[Virginia]]
| occupation = Academic, writer, #MeToo activist, Associate Professor
| occupation = Academic, writer, artist, poet, #MeToo activist, Associate Professor
| alma_mater = 2007 – PhD in English, [[Harvard University]]
| alma_mater = 2007 – PhD in English, [[Harvard University]]
| notable_works = ''A Refuge for Jae-In Doe,'' ''Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep?''
| notable_works = ''A Refuge for Jae-In Doe,'' ''Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep?''
| citizenship = U.S.
| movement = autotheory, #MeToo, feminism, experimental writing, speculative memoir
| subject = aesthetics, Asian American literature, autotheory, cognitively estranging referents, death, digital writing, disability, dreams, Englishes, the Korean DMZ, Emily Dickinson, globalization, the gothic, han, Korea, mental illness, poetry, Postmemory Han, rape culture, robots, science fiction, sexual violence, suicide, theory, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, trauma, the uncanny valley
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{{Western name order|Chu Seo-Young}}
{{Western name order|Chu Seo-Young}}
{{family name hatnote|[[Joo (Korean name)|Chu]]||lang=Korean}}
{{family name hatnote|[[Joo (Korean name)|Chu]]||lang=Korean}}
'''Seo-Young Chu''' ({{lang-ko|주서영}}; born February 14, 1978) is a queer [[Korean American]] scholar, poet, #[[MeToo]] activist, and associate professor of English at [[Queens College, City University of New York|Queens College, CUNY]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://english.qc.cuny.edu/quick-links/seo-young-chu/|title=Queens College Department of English » Seo-Young Chu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kqed.org/news/11633019/years-later-women-find-their-voice-to-speak-out-against-sexual-misconduct-by-professors|title=Former Grad Students: Our Professors Raped Us|date=December 7, 2017|website=KQED}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/146049/a-professor-kind-like-priest|title="A Professor Is Kind of Like a Priest"|first1=Irene|last1=Hsu|first2=Rachel|last2=Stone|date=November 30, 2017|magazine=The New Republic}}</ref><ref name="WaPo Academias Metoo">{{cite news |author=Nick Anderson |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/academias-metoo-moment-women-accuse-professors-of-sexual-misconduct/2018/05/10/474102de-2631-11e8-874b-d517e912f125_story.html |title=Academia's #MeToo moment: Women accuse professors of sexual misconduct |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=May 10, 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.stanforddaily.com/2017/12/05/an-open-letter-to-stanford-on-sexual-harassment-in-academia/|title=An open letter to Stanford on sexual harassment in academia|first=Op|last=Ed|date=December 5, 2017}}</ref><!-- <ref>"Seo-Young Chu" -wikipedia</ref> --> She is the author of ''A Refuge for Jae-in Doe'' and ''Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation''.<ref name=literal>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jBSo8LIDowoC&q=%22Seo-Young+Chu%22&pg=PP8|title=Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep?|first=Seo-Young|last=Chu|date=2010|publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=9780674055179 }}</ref>
'''Seo-Young Chu''' ({{langx|ko|주서영}}; born February 14, 1978) is a queer [[Korean American]] scholar, [[Feminist movement|feminist]], [[poet]], #[[MeToo]] activist, and associate professor of English at [[Queens College, City University of New York|Queens College]], [[City University of New York|CUNY]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://english.qc.cuny.edu/quick-links/seo-young-chu/|publisher=Queens College Department of English|title=Seo-Young Chu}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite web|url=https://www.kqed.org/news/11633019/years-later-women-find-their-voice-to-speak-out-against-sexual-misconduct-by-professors|title=Former Grad Students: Our Professors Raped Us|date=December 7, 2017|website=KQED}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite magazine|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/146049/a-professor-kind-like-priest|title="A Professor Is Kind of Like a Priest"|first1=Irene|last1=Hsu|first2=Rachel|last2=Stone|date=November 30, 2017|magazine=The New Republic}}</ref><ref name="WaPo Academias Metoo">{{cite news |first=Nick |last=Anderson |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/academias-metoo-moment-women-accuse-professors-of-sexual-misconduct/2018/05/10/474102de-2631-11e8-874b-d517e912f125_story.html |title=Academia's #MeToo moment: Women accuse professors of sexual misconduct |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=May 10, 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.stanforddaily.com/2017/12/05/an-open-letter-to-stanford-on-sexual-harassment-in-academia/|title=An open letter to Stanford on sexual harassment in academia|first=Op|last=Ed|date=December 5, 2017}}</ref><!-- <ref>"Seo-Young Chu" -wikipedia</ref> --> She is the author of ''A Refuge for Jae-in Doe''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lê |first=Aimée |date=2018-09-03 |title=Review: A Refuge for Jae-In Doe: Fugues in the Key of English Major by Seo-Young Chu |url=https://www.neonbooks.org.uk/review-a-refuge-for-jae-in-doe-fugues-in-the-key-of-english-major-by-seo-young-chu/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=Neon Books |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref name=":8" /> and ''Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation''.<ref name=literal>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jBSo8LIDowoC&q=%22Seo-Young+Chu%22&pg=PP8|title=Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep?|first=Seo-Young|last=Chu|date=2010|publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-05517-9 }}</ref><ref name="Seo-Young Chu – Humanities Commons">{{Cite web |title=Seo-Young Chu – Humanities Commons |url=https://hcommons.org/members/schu/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en-US}}</ref>


Chu is best known for her scholarship on science fiction, her writing on the Koreas, her [[creative nonfiction]] and lyric poems exploring mental illness and sexual violence,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Seo-Young Chu – Humanities Commons |url=https://hcommons.org/members/schu/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en-US}}</ref> and her work as an activist against [[rape culture]] on college campuses.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-07-12 |title=From the Community {{!}} Dear Stanford: You must reckon with your history of sexual violence |url=https://stanforddaily.com/2022/07/12/from-the-community-dear-stanford-you-must-reckon-with-your-history-of-sexual-violence/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Shimizu |first=Magdalena L. Barrera, Shelley Lee, Celine Parreñas |date=2018-03-16 |title=Moving Forward by Looking Back: Feminist Scholars in Solidarity with Seo-Young Chu |url=https://msmagazine.com/2018/03/16/moving-forward-looking-back-feminist-scholars-solidarity-seo-young-chu/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=Ms. Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Tong |first=Julia |date=2022-02-11 |title=Three graduate students sue Harvard, alleging sexual abuse from professor |url=https://asamnews.com/2022/02/11/jean-comaroff-allegedly-claimed-sexual-harassment-survivors-should-roll-with-the-punches/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=AsAmNews |language=en-US}}</ref> She was one of the first #MeTooAcademia advocates and remains active in the movement.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2022-07-12 |title=From the Community {{!}} Dear Stanford: You must reckon with your history of sexual violence |url=https://stanforddaily.com/2022/07/12/from-the-community-dear-stanford-you-must-reckon-with-your-history-of-sexual-violence/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=https://twitter.com/seoyoung_chu/status/1538848196788731904 |url=https://twitter.com/seoyoung_chu/status/1538848196788731904 |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=X (formerly Twitter) |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-10-27 |title=Stanford students call for firing of professor Vincent Barletta |url=https://stanforddaily.com/2022/10/27/students-call-for-termination-of-professor-vincent-barletta-following-daily-investigation/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-05-18 |title=Facing criticism for victim blaming, Stanford revises sexual harassment guidelines webpage, but criticism persists |url=https://stanforddaily.com/2020/05/18/facing-criticism-for-victim-blaming-stanford-revises-sexual-harassment-guidelines-webpage-but-criticism-persists/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en-US}}</ref> She frequently campaigns for universities and colleges to create more robust sexual harassment policies, and enforce them.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=2017-12-02 |title=Behind the Fliegelman sexual misconduct investigation |url=https://stanforddaily.com/2017/12/02/behind-the-fliegelman-sexual-misconduct-investigation/ |access-date=2022-07-17 |website=The Stanford Daily |language=en-US}}</ref> She also regularly speaks out on behalf of sexual assault victims in academia, encouraging universities to take accusations seriously, respond with compassion, and provide help to victims.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wang |first=Kyle |date=2019-06-14 |title=Stanford One Year After #MeToo: How Stanford's Response Failed Victims of Sexual Assault |url=https://stanfordpolitics.org/2019/06/14/stanford-one-year-after-metoo-how-stanfords-response-failed-victims-of-sexual-assault/ |access-date=2022-07-17 |website=Stanford Politics |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=2022-10-27 |title=Stanford students call for firing of professor Vincent Barletta |url=https://stanforddaily.com/2022/10/27/students-call-for-termination-of-professor-vincent-barletta-following-daily-investigation/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Citation |title=How #MeToo Helped Seo-Young Chu Name Her Harasser {{!}} Seo-Young Chu says she was sexually harassed and raped by Professor Jay Fliegelman when she was a graduate student in the English department at Stanford.... {{!}} By New York Magazine {{!}} Facebook |url=https://www.facebook.com/Cut/videos/how-metoo-helped-seo-young-chu-name-her-harasser/394792361455336/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref name="WaPo Academias Metoo" /> She has also spoken out about sexual violence in Asian America.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |date=2023-05-12 |title=Asian Americans are no longer pop culture sidekicks — they're defining the mainstream |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/asian-americans-are-just-included-re-defining-mainstream-culture-rcna77455 |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=NBC News |language=en}}</ref>
Chu is best known for her scholarship on [[science fiction]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Chu |first=Seo-Young |url=https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674055179 |title=Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep?: A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation |date=2011-01-15 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-05517-9 |location=Cambridge, MA}}</ref> her writing on the [[Korea]]s,<ref name=":11"/><ref name=":9">{{Cite journal |last=Chu |first=Seo-Young |date=2018-01-01 |title=The DMZ Responds |url=https://academicworks.cuny.edu/qc_pubs/546 |journal=Publications and Research}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Chu |first=Seo-Young |date=2021 |title=Imagining an Asian American Superhero of North Korean Origin: A Design Fiction |website=Humanities Commons |url=https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:46227/ |language=en-US}}</ref> her work on [[postmemory]] [[Han (cultural)|han]],<ref name="Chu 2008 97–121">{{Cite journal |last=Chu |first=Seo-Young |date=2008 |title=Science Fiction and Postmemory Han in Contemporary Korean American Literature |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20343509 |journal=MELUS |volume=33 |issue=4 |pages=97–121 |doi=10.1093/melus/33.4.97 |jstor=20343509 |issn=0163-755X}}</ref> her work on the [[uncanny valley]],<ref>{{Citation |last=Chu |first=Seo-Young |title=Techno-Orientalism |chapter=5. I, Stereotype: Detained in the Uncanny Valley |date=2015-04-17 |chapter-url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.36019/9780813570655-007/html?lang=en |pages=76–88 |access-date=2023-11-27 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |language=en |doi=10.36019/9780813570655-007 |isbn=978-0-8135-7065-5}}</ref> her [[creative nonfiction]] and lyric poems exploring [[mental illness]] and [[sexual violence]],<ref name="Seo-Young Chu – Humanities Commons"/><ref name=":8">{{Cite journal |last=Chu |first=Seo-Young |date=2017-11-01 |title=A Refuge for Jae-in Doe: Fugues in the Key of English Major |url=https://academicworks.cuny.edu/qc_pubs/503 |journal=Publications and Research}}</ref><ref name=":10">{{Cite journal |last=Chu |first=Seo-Young |date=2019-01-01 |title="Free Indirect Suicide: An Unfinished Fugue in H Minor" |url=https://academicworks.cuny.edu/qc_pubs/543 |journal=Publications and Research}}</ref> and her work as an activist against [[rape culture]] on college campuses.<ref name=":14">{{Cite web |date=2022-07-12 |title=From the Community {{!}} Dear Stanford: You must reckon with your history of sexual violence |url=https://stanforddaily.com/2022/07/12/from-the-community-dear-stanford-you-must-reckon-with-your-history-of-sexual-violence/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |first1=Magdalena L. |last1=Barrera |first2=Shelley |last2=Lee |author3=Celine Parreñas Shimizu |date=2018-03-16 |title=Moving Forward by Looking Back: Feminist Scholars in Solidarity with Seo-Young Chu |url=https://msmagazine.com/2018/03/16/moving-forward-looking-back-feminist-scholars-solidarity-seo-young-chu/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |magazine=Ms. Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Tong |first=Julia |date=2022-02-11 |title=Three graduate students sue Harvard, alleging sexual abuse from professor |url=https://asamnews.com/2022/02/11/jean-comaroff-allegedly-claimed-sexual-harassment-survivors-should-roll-with-the-punches/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=AsAmNews |language=en-US}}</ref> She was one of the earliest #MeTooAcademia advocates, first speaking out in 2017, and remains active in the movement.<ref name=":14"/><ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |title= |url=https://twitter.com/seoyoung_chu/status/1538848196788731904 |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=X (formerly Twitter) |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":3"/><ref name="stanforddaily.com">{{Cite web |date=2020-05-18 |title=Facing criticism for victim blaming, Stanford revises sexual harassment guidelines webpage, but criticism persists |url=https://stanforddaily.com/2020/05/18/facing-criticism-for-victim-blaming-stanford-revises-sexual-harassment-guidelines-webpage-but-criticism-persists/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Chu |first=Seo-Young |title=Survivor-Shaped Specters and Gaps |url=https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:63059/}}</ref> She frequently campaigns for universities and colleges to create more robust [[sexual harassment]] policies, and enforce them.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=2017-12-02 |title=Behind the Fliegelman sexual misconduct investigation |url=https://stanforddaily.com/2017/12/02/behind-the-fliegelman-sexual-misconduct-investigation/ |access-date=2022-07-17 |website=The Stanford Daily |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":14"/><ref name=":15" /> She also regularly speaks out on behalf of sexual assault victims in academia, encouraging universities to take accusations seriously, respond with compassion, and provide help to victims.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wang |first=Kyle |date=2019-06-14 |title=Stanford One Year After #MeToo: How Stanford's Response Failed Victims of Sexual Assault |url=https://stanfordpolitics.org/2019/06/14/stanford-one-year-after-metoo-how-stanfords-response-failed-victims-of-sexual-assault/ |access-date=2022-07-17 |website=Stanford Politics |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=2022-10-27 |title=Stanford students call for firing of professor Vincent Barletta |url=https://stanforddaily.com/2022/10/27/students-call-for-termination-of-professor-vincent-barletta-following-daily-investigation/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Citation |title=How #MeToo Helped Seo-Young Chu Name Her Harasser |website=Facebook |url=https://www.facebook.com/Cut/videos/how-metoo-helped-seo-young-chu-name-her-harasser/394792361455336/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en}}{{unreliable source?|date=November 2023}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref name="WaPo Academias Metoo" /> She has also spoken out about sexual violence in Asian Americans.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |date=2023-05-12 |title=Asian Americans are no longer pop culture sidekicks — they're defining the mainstream |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/asian-americans-are-just-included-re-defining-mainstream-culture-rcna77455 |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=NBC News |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Seo-Young Chu |url=https://koreanamericanstory.org/video/seo-young-chu/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=KoreanAmericanStory.org |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":13">{{Cite web |last=Dinh |first=Thaomi Michelle |title=You Are Invited: A Conversation on Sexual Violence in Asian America |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/00447471.2023.2295546}}</ref>


== Life ==
== Life ==


According to Chu's autobiographical essay "Free Indirect [[Suicide]]," published in ''[[The Rumpus]]'' in March 2019, Chu was born in 1978 in [[Northern Virginia]] to [[Koreans|Korean]] parents.<ref name="Rumpus" /> She is open about her struggles with [[bipolar disorder]] and [[Complex post-traumatic stress disorder|complex post-traumatic stress]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chu |first=Seo-young |date=2019-03-26 |title=Free Indirect Suicide: An Unfinished Fugue in H Minor |url=https://therumpus.net/2019/03/26/free-indirect-suicide-an-unfinished-fugue-in-h-minor/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=The Rumpus |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=Seo-Young Chu - Yale College 1999 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9i6qhawz_s |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en}}</ref> The Amazon author biography for Chu describes her as a "queer agnostic spinster".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Seo-Young-Chu/e/B003IO5NWA|title = Seo-Young Chu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|isbn = 978-0674055179|title = Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep?: A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation|last1 = Chu|first1 = Seo-Young|year = 2010}}</ref>
According to Chu's autobiographical essay "[[Free indirect speech|Free Indirect]] [[Suicide]]," published in ''[[The Rumpus]]'' in March 2019, Chu was born in 1978 in [[Northern Virginia]] to [[Koreans|Korean]] parents.<ref name="Rumpus" /> According to a 2023 article in ''The Knight News'', Chu's mother was born during the [[Korean War]] and Chu's father was [[orphan]]ed by the Korean War.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ali |first=Aliyah |date=2023-12-05 |title=Professor Spotlight: Professor Seo-Young Chu – The Knight News |url=https://www.theknightnews.com/2023/12/05/professor-spotlight-professor-seo-young-chu/ |access-date=2023-12-07 |language=en-US}}</ref> Chu is open about her struggles with [[Transgenerational trauma|generational trauma]], [[bipolar disorder]], [[Rape trauma syndrome|rape trauma]], and [[Complex post-traumatic stress disorder|complex post-traumatic stress]], writing publicly about her multiple [[psychiatric hospitalization]]s and life as a [[disabled]] person.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chu |first=Seo-young |date=2019-03-26 |title=Free Indirect Suicide: An Unfinished Fugue in H Minor |url=https://therumpus.net/2019/03/26/free-indirect-suicide-an-unfinished-fugue-in-h-minor/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=The Rumpus |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=Seo-Young Chu - Yale College 1999 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9i6qhawz_s |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="lareviewofbooks.org">{{Cite web |date=2024-03-05 |title=Differentially Unwell: On Mimi Khúc’s "dear elia" |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/differentially-unwell-on-mimi-khucs-dear-elia-letters-from-the-asian-american-abyss |access-date=2024-03-10 |website=Los Angeles Review of Books}}</ref> The Amazon author biography for Chu describes her as a "[[queer]] [[Agnosticism|agnostic]] [[spinster]]".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Seo-Young-Chu/e/B003IO5NWA|title = Seo-Young Chu| website=Amazon }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|isbn = 978-0-674-05517-9|title = Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep?: A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation|last1 = Chu|first1 = Seo-Young|year = 2010| publisher=Harvard University Press }}</ref>


In 2000, shortly after her 22nd birthday, Chu was sexually harassed and assaulted by her then-dissertation adviser Jay Fliegelman.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/11/09/essay-about-being-raped-professor-sparks-call-public-acknowledgment-stanford-and|title=Essay about being raped by professor sparks call for public acknowledgment from Stanford and disciplinary society|website=www.insidehighered.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/My-Professional-World-Has/243377|title='My Professional World Has Gotten Smaller'|first=Julia|last=Schmalz|date=May 11, 2018|via=The Chronicle of Higher Education}}</ref> Stanford University conducted an investigation and suspended Fliegelman for two years without pay only to cover up both the abuse and the punishment by naming mentorship awards and a library after him.<ref>{{Citation |title=Seo-Young Chu {{!}} Legacy Project {{!}} #MeToo |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-NJRJNXRDU |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Jay Fliegelman {{!}} Academic Sexual Misconduct Database |url=https://academic-sexual-misconduct-database.org/person/jay-fliegelman |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=academic-sexual-misconduct-database.org}}</ref> After being abused at Stanford, Chu changed her name from Jennie to Seo-Young,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gale - Product Login |url=https://galeapps.gale.com/apps/auth?userGroupName=nysl_oweb&sid=sitemap&da=true&origURL=https%3A%2F%2Fgo.gale.com%2Fps%2Fi.do%3Fid%3DGALE%257CA521459037%26sid%3Dsitemap%26v%3D2.1%26it%3Dr%26p%3DEAIM%26sw%3Dw%26userGroupName%3Dnysl_oweb%26isGeoAuthType%3Dtrue%26aty%3Dgeo&prodId=EAIM |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=galeapps.gale.com}}</ref> changed her field from [[Early American history|Early American]] Literature to [[Science fiction studies|science fiction]], and reapplied to PhD programs, transferring in 2001 to Harvard University, where she worked with [[Elaine Scarry]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Seo-Young Chu (주서영) {{!}} CUNY Academic Commons |url=https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/seoyoungchu/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en-CAC}}</ref> In 2017 Chu published "A Refuge for Jae-in Doe," in ''[[Entropy (magazine)|Entropy Magazine]]'', in which Chu wrote about being abused at Stanford and living with [[posttraumatic stress]].<ref name="Entropy Author page">{{Cite web|url=https://entropymag.org/a-refuge-for-jae-in-doe-fugues-in-the-key-of-english-major/|title=WOVEN: A Refuge for Jae-in Doe: Fugues in the Key of English Major}}</ref> The publication became part of the dialogue about #[[MeToo]].<ref name="Entropy Author page" /><ref name="Chronicle 2 women">{{Cite web|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/2-Women-Say-Stanford/241749|title=2 Women Say Stanford Professors Raped Them Years Ago|first=Katherine|last=Mangan|date=November 11, 2017|via=The Chronicle of Higher Education}}</ref> "A Refuge for Jae-in Doe" was selected for inclusion in [[The Best American Nonrequired Reading]] 2018, [[Best American Experimental Writing]] 2020, and Advanced Creative Nonfiction: A Writer's Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Writer's Guides and Anthologies).<ref>{{Cite book|isbn=978-1328465818|title=The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018|last1=Heti|first1=Sheila|date=2 October 2018}}</ref> In 2021, Chu successfully campaigned for Stanford to remove Fliegelman's name from the library, though what happened to the collection of books, some of which Fliegelman used to molest Chu and others,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lepore |first=Jill |date=2019-07-01 |title=The Lingering of Loss |language=en-US |work=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/08/the-lingering-of-loss |access-date=2023-11-27 |issn=0028-792X}}</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Facebook |url=https://www.facebook.com/groups/SAAASA/posts/5687106724695954/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=www.facebook.com}}</ref> remains unknown.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-07-09 |title=Stanford removes library collection, brick honoring affiliates accused of sexual misconduct |url=https://stanforddaily.com/2021/07/09/stanford-removes-library-collection-brick/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-02-21 |title=I, Discomfort Woman: A Fugue in F Minor |url=https://aaww.org/i-discomfort-woman-a-fugue-in-f-minor/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=Asian American Writers' Workshop |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Jay Fliegelman {{!}} Academic Sexual Misconduct Database |url=https://academic-sexual-misconduct-database.org/person/jay-fliegelman |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=academic-sexual-misconduct-database.org}}</ref>
In 2000, several months after surviving her first [[suicide attempt]] as a graduating [[Senior (education)|senior]] at [[Yale University|Yale]], and shortly after starting a [[PhD program]] in the Department of English at [[Stanford University]], Chu was [[Sexual harassment|sexually harassed]] and [[Sexual assault|raped]] by the [[William Robertson Coe]] Professor in American Literature at Stanford University [[Jay Fliegelman]], for whom she was working as a [[teaching assistant]] and [[research assistant]].<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/11/09/essay-about-being-raped-professor-sparks-call-public-acknowledgment-stanford-and|title=Essay about being raped by professor sparks call for public acknowledgment from Stanford and disciplinary society|website=www.insidehighered.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/My-Professional-World-Has/243377|title='My Professional World Has Gotten Smaller'|first=Julia|last=Schmalz|date=May 11, 2018|via=The Chronicle of Higher Education}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-11-30 |title=Stanford: Sexual misconduct revelation exposes storied professor's secret |url=https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/11/30/stanford-sexual-misconduct-revelation-exposes-storied-professors-secret/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=East Bay Times |language=en-US}}</ref> Due to pressure from her parents to keep quiet, Chu never pressed charges and never hired a lawyer.<ref name="KoreanAmericanStory">{{cite AV media |title=Seo-Young Chu {{!}} Legacy Project {{!}} #MeToo |publisher=KoreanAmericanStory.org |via=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-NJRJNXRDU |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en}}</ref> Nonetheless, the law required Stanford University to conduct an independent investigation that resulted in significant sanctions against Fliegelman, including suspension for two years without pay.<ref name=":7" /><ref name=":6" /> During his suspension from 2000 to 2002, Fliegelman was still granted access to students and university resources.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-12-02 |title=Behind the Fliegelman sexual misconduct investigation |url=https://stanforddaily.com/2017/12/02/behind-the-fliegelman-sexual-misconduct-investigation/ |access-date=2023-11-29 |language=en-US}}</ref> After his suspension, Stanford covered up both the abuse and the punishment by naming mentorship awards and a library<ref>{{Cite web |first=John E. |last=Mustain |date=2016-05-02 |title=Foreword |url=https://exhibits.stanford.edu/american-enlightenment/about/foreword |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=Stanford University |language=en}}</ref> after Fliegelman.<ref name="Fliegelman">{{Cite book |last=Fliegelman |first=Jay |url=https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/7921417 |title=Jay Fliegelman papers and slides relating to his book collection}}</ref><ref name="KoreanAmericanStory" /><ref name="Jay Fliegelman">{{Cite web |title=Jay Fliegelman |website=Academic Sexual Misconduct Database |url=https://academic-sexual-misconduct-database.org/person/jay-fliegelman |access-date=2023-11-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-11-30 |title=Stanford: Sexual misconduct revelation exposes storied professor's secret |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/11/30/stanford-sexual-misconduct-revelation-exposes-storied-professors-secret/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=The Mercury News |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":16"/>

Subsequent to being abused at Stanford, Chu changed her name from Jennie to Seo-Young,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gale - Product Login |url=https://galeapps.gale.com/apps/auth?userGroupName=nysl_oweb&sid=sitemap&da=true&origURL=https%3A%2F%2Fgo.gale.com%2Fps%2Fi.do%3Fid%3DGALE%257CA521459037%26sid%3Dsitemap%26v%3D2.1%26it%3Dr%26p%3DEAIM%26sw%3Dw%26userGroupName%3Dnysl_oweb%26isGeoAuthType%3Dtrue%26aty%3Dgeo&prodId=EAIM |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=galeapps.gale.com}}</ref><ref name=":16">{{Cite web |last=Chu |first=Seo-Young |date=2018-03-15 |title=After "A Refuge for Jae-in Doe": A Social Media Chronology* / Seo-Young Chu |url=https://asapjournal.com/after-a-refuge-for-jae-in-doe-a-social-media-chronology/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=ASAP/J |language=en-US}}</ref> changed her field from [[Early American history|Early American]] Literature to [[Science fiction studies|science fiction]], and reapplied to [[PhD]] programs, transferring in 2001 to [[Harvard University]], where she worked with [[Elaine Scarry]] and earned a PhD in English and American Literature and Language in 2007.<ref name="Seo-Young Chu 주서영">{{Cite web |title=Seo-Young Chu (주서영) |website=City University of New York |url=https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/seoyoungchu/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en-CAC}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Gluckman |first=Nell |date=December 6, 2017 |title=What Happens When Sex Harassment Disrupts Victims' Academic Careers |url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-happens-when-sex-harassment-disrupts-victims-academic-careers/}}</ref> In 2008, Chu published an influential [[essay]] on [[postmemory]] [[Han (cultural)|han]] and [[Korean Americans|Korean American]] literature in ''[[MELUS]]''.<ref name="Chu 2008 97–121"/> In 2009, Chu started a [[tenure-track]] position in the [[Department of English]] at [[Queens College, CUNY]]. In 2011, Chu published a well-received [[monograph]] titled ''Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation'' ([[Harvard University Press]]). In 2016, Chu earned tenure at [[Queens College of CUNY|Queens College, CUNY.]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-03-13 |title=Seo-Young Chu – The Department of English |url=https://qcenglish.commons.gc.cuny.edu/people/seo-young-chu/ |access-date=2023-11-29 |language=en-CAC}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Seo-Young Chu (주서영) {{!}} CUNY Academic Commons |url=https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/seoyoungchu/ |access-date=2023-11-29 |language=en-CAC}}</ref>

In 2017 Chu published "A Refuge for Jae-in Doe,"<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chu |first=Seo-Young |date=2017 |title=WOVEN: A Refuge for Jae-in Doe: Fugues in the Key of English Major |website=Humanities Commons |url=https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:42789/ |language=en-US}}</ref> in ''[[Entropy (magazine)|Entropy Magazine]]'', in which Chu wrote about being abused at Stanford and living with [[posttraumatic stress]].<ref name="Entropy Author page">{{Cite web|url=https://entropymag.org/a-refuge-for-jae-in-doe-fugues-in-the-key-of-english-major/|title=WOVEN: A Refuge for Jae-in Doe: Fugues in the Key of English Major}}</ref> The publication became part of the dialogue about #[[MeToo]] and #MeTooAcademia in particular.<ref name="Entropy Author page" /><ref name="Chronicle 2 women">{{Cite web|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/2-Women-Say-Stanford/241749|title=2 Women Say Stanford Professors Raped Them Years Ago|first=Katherine|last=Mangan|date=November 11, 2017|via=The Chronicle of Higher Education}}</ref> "A Refuge for Jae-in Doe" was selected for inclusion in [[The Best American Nonrequired Reading]] 2018, [[Best American Experimental Writing]] 2020, and Advanced Creative Nonfiction: A Writer's Guide and Anthology ([[Bloomsbury Publishing|Bloomsbury]] Writer's Guides and Anthologies).<ref>{{Cite book|isbn=978-1-328-46581-8|title=The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018|last1=Heti|first1=Sheila|date=2 October 2018|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt }}</ref> In 2021, Chu successfully campaigned for Stanford to remove Fliegelman's name from the Fliegelman Library of [http://philobiblos.blogspot.com/2008/03/stanford-gets-fliegelmans-books.html Association Copies], though what happened to the collection of expensive [[rare books]], many of which were financed by Stanford University, and some of which Fliegelman used to molest Chu and others,<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Lepore |first=Jill |date=2019-07-01 |title=The Lingering of Loss |language=en-US |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/08/the-lingering-of-loss |access-date=2023-11-27 |issn=0028-792X}}</ref><ref name=":14"/><ref>{{Cite web |title=Facebook |url=https://www.facebook.com/groups/SAAASA/posts/5687106724695954/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=www.facebook.com}}</ref> remains less than clear.<ref name="Fliegelman"/><ref name="ReferenceA">{{Cite web |date=2021-07-09 |title=Stanford removes library collection, brick honoring affiliates accused of sexual misconduct |url=https://stanforddaily.com/2021/07/09/stanford-removes-library-collection-brick/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":11">{{Cite web |date=2023-02-21 |title=I, Discomfort Woman: A Fugue in F Minor |url=https://aaww.org/i-discomfort-woman-a-fugue-in-f-minor/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=Asian American Writers' Workshop |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="Jay Fliegelman"/><ref name="aaww.org">{{Cite web |date=2023-02-21 |title=I, Discomfort Woman: A Fugue in F Minor |url=https://aaww.org/i-discomfort-woman-a-fugue-in-f-minor/ |access-date=2023-11-29 |website=Asian American Writers' Workshop |language=en-US}}</ref>


== Education ==
== Education ==
In 1999 Chu earned a B.A. degree from [[Yale]].<ref>{{Citation |title=Seo-Young Chu - Yale College 1999 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9i6qhawz_s |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en}}</ref> In 2001, Chu earned a M.A. degree from [[Stanford]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Seo-Young Chu (주서영) {{!}} CUNY Academic Commons |url=https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/seoyoungchu/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en-CAC}}</ref> In 2007, Chu earned a Ph.D. degree from [[Harvard]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Seo-Young Chu (주서영) {{!}} CUNY Academic Commons |url=https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/seoyoungchu/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en-CAC}}</ref>
In 1999 Chu earned a [[B.A.]] degree from [[Yale]].<ref>{{Citation |title=Seo-Young Chu - Yale College 1999 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9i6qhawz_s |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en}}</ref> In 2001, Chu earned a [[M.A.]] degree from [[Stanford]]. In 2007, Chu earned a [[Ph.D.]] degree from [[Harvard]].<ref name="Seo-Young Chu 주서영"/>


== Work ==
== Work ==


Chu has written and spoken about science fiction,<ref name=literal/> the DMZ in Korea,<ref>{{cite web |author=Seo-Young Chu |date=November 29, 2018 |title=The DMZ Responds |publisher=Telos |url=http://www.telospress.com/author/sychu/}}</ref> postmemory [[Han (cultural)|han]], [[poetry]], [[North Korea]], her experiences as a survivor of sexual violence in the English Department at [[Stanford University]],<ref name="Entropy Author page"/> and her struggles with bipolar disorder and suicidal ideation.<ref name="Rumpus">{{cite web |author=Seo-Young Chu |date=March 26, 2019 |title=Free Indirect Suicide: An Unfinished Fugue in H Minor |publisher=The Rumpus |url=https://therumpus.net/2019/03/free-indirect-suicide-an-unfinished-fugue-in-h-minor}}</ref><ref name="Entropy Author page"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kartikareview.com/17/chu.html|title=M'어머니 by Seo-Young Chu (KR 17, Spring 2017)|website=www.kartikareview.com}}</ref><ref name="auto"/><ref name="Chronicle 2 women" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://asapjournal.com/after-a-refuge-for-jae-in-doe-a-social-media-chronology/|title = After "A Refuge for Jae-in Doe": A Social Media Chronology* / Seo-Young Chu|date = 15 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PooQvoG-a5c|title=Utopias Misplaced: The Cost of Outsourcing Dystopian Poetics to North Korea|date=May 7, 2015|via=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Seo-Young Chu |jstor=20343509 |title=Science Fiction and Postmemory Han in Contemporary Korean American Literature |journal=MELUS|volume=33 |issue=4 |date=Winter 2008 |pages=97–121 |doi=10.1093/melus/33.4.97 }}</ref><ref name="WaPo Academias Metoo" /><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/11/30/stanford-sexual-misconduct-revelation-exposes-storied-professors-secret/|title=Stanford: Sexual misconduct revelation exposes storied professor's secret |newspaper=Mercury News |orig-year=November 30, 2017 |author=Emily DeRuy | date=December 1, 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-07-12 |title=From the Community {{!}} Dear Stanford: You must reckon with your history of sexual violence |url=https://stanforddaily.com/2022/07/12/from-the-community-dear-stanford-you-must-reckon-with-your-history-of-sexual-violence/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en-US}}</ref> Her publications include “Excerpts from an Anti-Standardized ‘[[수능]]’: A [[Design fiction|Design-Fictional]] Approach to [[Korea]],” "I, Discomfort Woman: A Fugue in F Minor," "Dear Stanford: You Must Reckon With Your History," “Welcome to the Vegas [[Pyongyang]],” ''Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation,'' "[[Hwabyeong|Hwabyung]] Fragments," “Are Postmodernism and MeToo Incompatible?,”<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Chu |first=Seo-Young |date=2019-06-14 |title=Are Postmodernism and #MeToo Incompatible? |url=https://academicworks.cuny.edu/qc_pubs/607 |journal=Publications and Research}}</ref> "[[Science fiction|Science Fiction]] and [[Postmemory]] [[Han (cultural)|Han]] in Contemporary Korean American Literature," "The [[Korean Demilitarized Zone|DMZ]] Responds," "A Refuge for Jae-in Doe: Fugues in the Key of English Major," "M’어머니," “Dream of the Ambassador, 12/21/2016,” “The Lyric We,” “Two Koreas, in the Key of Emily Dickinson,” "Chogakpo Fantasia," "[[Emily Dickinson|Dickinson]] and Mathematics," "Emoji Poetics," "I, Stereotype: Detained in the [[Uncanny valley|Uncanny Valley]]," "Dystopian Surface, Utopian Dream," “Free Indirect [[Suicide]]: An Unfinished Fugue In H Minor,” "Old Typewriter in a Field,” "Translator of Soliloquies," "Utopias Misplaced: The Cost of Outsourcing Dystopian Poetics to [[North Korea]]," "Hypnotic Ratiocination," and “Imagining an [[Asian Americans|Asian American]] Superhero of North Korean Origin.”<ref>{{Cite web |title=Seo-Young Chu: books, biography, latest update |url=https://www.amazon.com/stores/Seo-Young%20Chu/author/B003IO5NWA/about |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=Amazon.com |language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Seo-Young Chu – Humanities Commons |url=https://hcommons.org/members/schu/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en-US}}</ref>
Chu has written and spoken about science fiction,<ref name=literal/> the DMZ in Korea,<ref>{{cite web |author=Seo-Young Chu |date=November 29, 2018 |title=The DMZ Responds |publisher=Telos |url=http://www.telospress.com/author/sychu/}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title="Beyond the Catastrophic Origins of the Korean DMZ" / "The Human Rights of a No-Man's Land" |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhYGDTzU3dE&list=PLXQRPSEGHTBiFsePIdraK3KNHvXQ1iFaM&index=1 |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en}}</ref> postmemory [[Han (cultural)|han]], [[poetry]],<ref name="aaww.org"/> [[North Korea]], her experiences as a survivor of [[sexual violence]] in the English Department at [[Stanford University]],<ref name="Entropy Author page"/><ref name="aaww.org"/><ref name=":14"/><ref name=":16" /> and her struggles with [[bipolar disorder]] and [[suicidal ideation]].<ref name="Rumpus">{{cite web |author=Seo-Young Chu |date=March 26, 2019 |title=Free Indirect Suicide: An Unfinished Fugue in H Minor |publisher=The Rumpus |url=https://therumpus.net/2019/03/free-indirect-suicide-an-unfinished-fugue-in-h-minor}}</ref><ref name="Entropy Author page"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kartikareview.com/17/chu.html|title=M'어머니 by Seo-Young Chu (KR 17, Spring 2017)|website=www.kartikareview.com}}</ref><ref name="auto"/><ref name="Chronicle 2 women" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://asapjournal.com/after-a-refuge-for-jae-in-doe-a-social-media-chronology/|title = After "A Refuge for Jae-in Doe": A Social Media Chronology* / Seo-Young Chu|date = 15 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PooQvoG-a5c|title=Utopias Misplaced: The Cost of Outsourcing Dystopian Poetics to North Korea|date=May 7, 2015|via=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Seo-Young Chu |jstor=20343509 |title=Science Fiction and Postmemory Han in Contemporary Korean American Literature |journal=MELUS|volume=33 |issue=4 |date=Winter 2008 |pages=97–121 |doi=10.1093/melus/33.4.97 }}</ref><ref name="WaPo Academias Metoo" /><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/11/30/stanford-sexual-misconduct-revelation-exposes-storied-professors-secret/|title=Stanford: Sexual misconduct revelation exposes storied professor's secret |newspaper=Mercury News |orig-date=November 30, 2017 |first=Emily |last=DeRuy | date=December 1, 2017 }}</ref><ref name=":14"/><ref name="lareviewofbooks.org"/> Her publications include "Survivor-Shaped Specters and Gaps,"<ref name=":1" /> "Excerpts from an Anti-Standardized '[[수능]]': A [[Design fiction|Design-Fictional]] Approach to [[Korea]],"<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Chu |first=Seo-Young |date=October 2023 |title=Excerpts from an Anti-Standardized "수능": A Design-Fictional Approach to Korea |url=https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:61115/ |journal=Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts |language=en-US |volume=34 |issue=2 |pages=140–145}}</ref> "I, Discomfort Woman: A Fugue in F Minor,"<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Chu |first=Seo-Young |date=2023-02-21 |title=I, Discomfort Woman: A Fugue in F Minor |url=https://academicworks.cuny.edu/qc_pubs/605 |journal=Publications and Research}}</ref><ref name=":11" /> "Dear Stanford: You Must Reckon With Your History of Sexual Violence,"<ref name=":14"/><ref name=":15">{{Cite journal |last=Chu |first=Seo-Young |date=2022-07-12 |title="Dear Stanford: You must reckon with your history of sexual violence" by Seo-Young Chu |url=https://academicworks.cuny.edu/qc_pubs/558 |journal=Publications and Research}}</ref> "Welcome to the Vegas [[Pyongyang]],"<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Chu |first=Seo-Young |date=2012 |title=Welcome to the Vegas Pyongyang |url=https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:46115/ |journal=Science Fiction Studies |language=en-US |volume=39 |issue=3 |pages=376–377}}</ref> ''Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation,''<ref name="literal" /> "[[Hwabyeong|Hwabyung]] Fragments,"<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Chu |first=Seo-Young |date=2006 |title=Hwabyung Fragments |url=https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:46237/ |journal=Segue |language=en-US |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=40–43}}</ref> "Are [[Postmodernism]] and MeToo Incompatible?,"<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Chu |first=Seo-Young |date=2019-06-14 |title=Are Postmodernism and #MeToo Incompatible? |url=https://academicworks.cuny.edu/qc_pubs/607 |journal=Publications and Research}}</ref> "[[Science fiction|Science Fiction]] and [[Postmemory]] [[Han (cultural)|Han]] in Contemporary [[Korean Americans|Korean American]] Literature,"<ref name="Chu 2008 97–121"/> "The [[Korean Demilitarized Zone|DMZ]] Responds,"<ref name=":9" /> "A Refuge for Jae-in Doe: Fugues in the Key of English Major,"<ref name=":8" /> "M'어머니,"<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chu |first=Seo-Young |date=2017-03-15 |title=M'어머니 |website=Humanities Commons |url=https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:46057/ |language=en-US}}</ref> "Dream of the Ambassador, 12/21/2016,"<ref name=":12">{{Cite journal |last=Chu |first=Seo-Young |date=2019 |title="Two Koreas, in the Key of Emily Dickinson," "Dream of the Ambassador, 12/21/2016," "The Lyric We," "A Prose Poem for 할머니" (poems). Newtown Literary, Issue 14, Spring/Summer 2019. |url=https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:46053/ |journal=Newtown Literary |language=en-US |volume=14 |pages=78–82}}</ref> "The Lyric We,"<ref name=":12" /> "Two Koreas, in the Key of [[Emily Dickinson]],"<ref name=":12" /> "Chogakpo Fantasia,"<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Chu |first=Seo-Young |date=2015-11-23 |title=Chogakpo Fantasia |url=https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:46059/ |journal=And/Or |language=en-US |volume=5 |pages=22}}</ref> "[[Emily Dickinson|Dickinson]] and Mathematics,"<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Chu |first=Seo-Young Jennie |date=2006 |title=Dickinson and Mathematics |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/200172 |journal=The Emily Dickinson Journal |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=35–55 |doi=10.1353/edj.2006.0017 |s2cid=122127912 |issn=1096-858X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Chu |first=Seo-Young |date=2006 |title=Dickinson and Mathematics |url=https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:46119/ |journal=The Emily Dickinson Journal |language=en-US |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=35–55|doi=10.1353/edj.2006.0017 |s2cid=122127912 }}</ref> "Emoji Poetics,"<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Chu |first=Seo-Young |date=2019 |title=Emoji Poetics |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/731631 |journal=ASAP/Journal |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=290–292 |doi=10.1353/asa.2019.0020 |s2cid=208625707 |issn=2381-4721}}</ref> "Tiny Art Museum for the [[Floater]] in My Eye,"<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Chu |first=Seo-Young |date=2020 |title=Tiny Art Museum for the Floater in My Eye |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/772978 |journal=ASAP/Journal |volume=5 |issue=3 |pages=509–510 |doi=10.1353/asa.2020.0025 |s2cid=226967530 |issn=2381-4721}}</ref> "I, [[Stereotype]]: Detained in the [[Uncanny valley|Uncanny Valley]],"<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Chu |first=Seo-Young |date=2015 |title="I, Stereotype: Detained in the Uncanny Valley" |url=https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:46263/ |journal=Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media |language=en-US |pages=76–88}}</ref> "Dystopian Surface, Utopian Dream,"<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Chu |first=Seo-Young |date=2009 |title=Dystopian Surface, Utopian Dream: Wittman Ah Sing foresees postethnic humanity |url=https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:59535/ |journal=A New Literary History of America |language=en-US |pages=1020–1025}}</ref> "Free Indirect [[Suicide]]: An Unfinished Fugue In H Minor,"<ref name=":10" /> "Old Typewriter in a Field,"<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Chu |first=Seo-Young |date=Winter 1998 |title=Old Typewriter in a Field |url=https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:63051/ |journal=The Yale Literary Magazine |language=en-US |volume=10.2 |pages=12–12}}</ref> "Translator of Soliloquies,"<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Chu |first=Seo-Young |date=2020 |title="Translator of Soliloquies: Fugues in the Key of Dissociation" |url=https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:45953/ |journal=Black Warrior Review |language=en-US |volume=46 |issue=2 |pages=195–223}}</ref> "Utopias Misplaced: The Cost of Outsourcing Dystopian Poetics to [[North Korea]],"<ref name="Yale">{{Cite web |title=11/20/2014 "Utopias Misplaced: The Cost of Outsourcing Dystopian Poetics in North Korea" |website=Yale University |url=https://eall.yale.edu/news/11202014-utopias-misplaced-cost-outsourcing-dystopian-poetics-north-korea |access-date=2023-11-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Chu |first=Seo-Young |date=2015-05-07 |title=Utopias Misplaced: The Cost of Outsourcing Dystopian Poetics to North Korea |website=Humanities Commons |url=https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:47111/ |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title="Utopias Misplaced: The Cost of Outsourcing Dystopian Poetics to North Korea" |website=Yale University |url=https://whc.yale.edu/videos/utopias-misplaced-cost-outsourcing-dystopian-poetics-north-korea |access-date=2023-11-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-10-15 |title=Franke Lectures to explore utopian literature |url=https://news.yale.edu/2014/10/15/franke-lectures-explore-utopian-literature |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=YaleNews |language=en}}</ref> "Hypnotic Ratiocination,"<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Chu |first=Seo-Young Jennie |date=2005 |title=Hypnotic Ratiocination |jstor=41506211 |journal=The Edgar Allan Poe Review |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=5–19 |issn=2150-0428}}</ref> "The Dream Life of Waste: Archaeologies of the Soul in the Key of Capitalism,"<ref>{{Cite periodical |title=Dream Life of Waste: Archaeologies of the Soul in the Key of Capitalism |periodical=Nat. Brut |issue=13 |author=Seo-Young Chu |url=https://natbrut.wixsite.com/website-2/seo-young-chu |access-date=2023-11-27 |date=Fall 2020 |language=en}}</ref> "jogakpo window (7 feet x 4 feet),"<ref>{{Cite web |title=ctrl + v - seo-young chu |url=https://ctrlvjournal.com/issue12/chu.html |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=ctrlvjournal.com}}</ref> and "Imagining an [[Asian Americans|Asian American]] [[Superhero fiction|Superhero]] of North Korean Origin."<ref name="amazon.com">{{Cite web |title=Seo-Young Chu: books, biography, latest update |url=https://www.amazon.com/stores/Seo-Young%20Chu/author/B003IO5NWA/about |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=Amazon.com |language=en-us}}</ref><ref name="Seo-Young Chu – Humanities Commons"/> Chu is also a contributing writer to the experimental film ''I See You and You See Me'' (2021), which tells "Stories of [[Queens]] residents during the time of the coronavirus."<ref>{{Citation |last=Doran |first=Harris |title=I See You and You See Me |date=2021-04-22 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14186324/ |type=Biography, Drama, Comedy |access-date=2023-11-27 |others=Deirdre Lovejoy, Alana Raquel Bowers, Deborah S. Craig |publisher=Madison Square Films, Queens Theatre}}{{unreliable source?|date=November 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Cristi |first=A. A. |title=I SEE YOU AND YOU SEE ME Premieres Thursday at Queens Theatre |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-off-broadway/article/I-SEE-YOU-AND-YOU-SEE-ME-Premieres-Thursday-at-Queens-Theatre-20210419 |access-date=2023-12-07 |website=BroadwayWorld.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Doran |first=Harris |title=I See You and You See Me |date=2021-04-22 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14186324/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt |type=Biography, Drama, Comedy |access-date=2023-12-07 |others=Deirdre Lovejoy, Alana Raquel Bowers, Deborah S. Craig |publisher=Madison Square Films, Queens Theatre}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-04-09 |title=New stage and film project gives life to Queens' pandemic experience |url=https://queenseagle.com/all/new-stage-and-film-project-gives-life-to-queens-pandemic-experience |access-date=2023-12-07 |website=Queens Daily Eagle |language=en-US}}</ref>


Chu's creative nonfiction has been listed among “Notable Essays & Literary Nonfiction” in [[The Best American Essays]] 2020 and anthologized in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018, Best American Experimental Writing 2020, and Advanced Creative Nonfiction. Her work has been cited by Jia Tolentino in ''[[The New Yorker]]''<ref>{{Cite news |last=Tolentino |first=Jia |date=2019-11-06 |title=How “The Memory Police” Makes You See |language=en-US |work=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/how-the-memory-police-makes-you-see |access-date=2023-11-27 |issn=0028-792X}}</ref>'';'' by [[Amanda Gorman]] in ''Call Us What We Carry;'' by Mia You in ''Poetry''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Foundation |first=Poetry |date=2023-11-27 |title=Authentic Fake by Mia You |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/159868/authentic-fake |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=Poetry Foundation |language=en}}</ref>; and by [[Cathy Park Hong]] in ''Minor Feelings.'' In 2017, 2018, and more recently, “A Refuge for Jae-in Doe” and Chu's advocacy for survivors have sparked dialogue about MeToo in academia, particularly at Stanford. Media attention has included articles in New York Magazine,<ref name=":4" /> KQED, The New Republic, The Washington Post, Literary Hub,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-04-18 |title=The Impossible, Crucial Task of Teaching About Rape as a Survivor |url=https://lithub.com/the-impossible-crucial-task-of-teaching-about-rape-as-a-survivor/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=Literary Hub |language=en-US}}</ref> The Chronicle of Higher Education,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schmalz |first=Julia |title=‘My Professional World Has Gotten Smaller’ |url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/my-professional-world-has-gotten-smaller/ |url-status=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Mangan |first=Katherine |date=November 11, 2017 |title=2 Women Say Stanford Professors Raped Them Years Ago |url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/2-women-say-stanford-professors-raped-them-years-ago/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Here’s What Sexual Harassment Looks Like in Higher Education |url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/heres-what-sexual-harassment-looks-like-in-higher-education/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Sexual Harassment and Assault in Higher Ed: What’s Happened Since Weinstein |url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/sexual-harassment-and-assault-in-higher-ed-whats-happened-since-weinstein/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=What Happens When Sex Harassment Disrupts Victims' Academic Careers |url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA521459037&sid=sitemap&v=2.1&it=r&p=EAIM&sw=w&userGroupName=nysl_oweb&isGeoAuthType=true&aty=geo}}</ref> The Stanford Daily,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-02-26 |title=Provost, General Counsel offer personal contributions to anti-sexual assault organization after Stanford denies Fliegelman victim’s request for donation |url=https://stanforddaily.com/2018/02/26/provost-general-counsel-offer-personal-contributions-to-anti-sexual-assault-organization-after-stanford-denies-fliegelman-victims-request-for-donation/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-12-05 |title=An open letter to Stanford on sexual harassment in academia |url=https://stanforddaily.com/2017/12/05/an-open-letter-to-stanford-on-sexual-harassment-in-academia/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-12-02 |title=Behind the Fliegelman sexual misconduct investigation |url=https://stanforddaily.com/2017/12/02/behind-the-fliegelman-sexual-misconduct-investigation/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-05-18 |title=Facing criticism for victim blaming, Stanford revises sexual harassment guidelines webpage, but criticism persists |url=https://stanforddaily.com/2020/05/18/facing-criticism-for-victim-blaming-stanford-revises-sexual-harassment-guidelines-webpage-but-criticism-persists/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-07-09 |title=Stanford removes library collection, brick honoring affiliates accused of sexual misconduct |url=https://stanforddaily.com/2021/07/09/stanford-removes-library-collection-brick/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-12-02 |title=Behind the Fliegelman sexual misconduct investigation |url=https://stanforddaily.com/2017/12/02/behind-the-fliegelman-sexual-misconduct-investigation/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":3" /> NBC News,<ref name=":5" /> and Inside Higher Ed.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Seo-Young Chu: books, biography, latest update |url=https://www.amazon.com/stores/Seo-Young%20Chu/author/B003IO5NWA/about |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=Amazon.com |language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Seo-Young Chu (주서영) {{!}} CUNY Academic Commons |url=https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/seoyoungchu/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en-CAC}}</ref>
Chu's creative nonfiction has been listed among "Notable Essays & Literary Nonfiction" in [[The Best American Essays]] 2020 and anthologized in ''The Best American Nonrequired Reading'' 2018,<ref>{{Cite book |editor-last=Heti |editor-first=Sheila |title=The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018 |date=2018-10-02 |publisher=Mariner Books |isbn=978-1-328-46581-8 |edition=Illustrated |language=en}}</ref> ''Best American Experimental Writing 2020'',<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Abramson |first1=Seth |title=BAX 2020: Best American Experimental Writing |last2=Damiani |first2=Jesse |date=2020-12-08 |publisher=Wesleyan University Press |isbn=978-0-8195-7958-4 |editor-last=Machado |editor-first=Carmen Maria |location=Middletown, Connecticut |language=English |editor-last2=McSweeney |editor-first2=Joyelle}}</ref> and ''Advanced Creative Nonfiction''.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Prentiss |first1=Sean |title=Advanced Creative Nonfiction: A Writer's Guide and Anthology |last2=Nelson |first2=Jessica Hendry |last3=Wilkins |first3=Joe |date=2021-08-26 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=978-1-350-06780-6 |language=English}}</ref> Her work has been cited by [[Jia Tolentino]] in ''[[The New Yorker]]''<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Tolentino |first=Jia |date=2019-11-06 |title=How "The Memory Police" Makes You See |language=en-US |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/how-the-memory-police-makes-you-see |access-date=2023-11-27 |issn=0028-792X}}</ref>'';'' by [[Amanda Gorman]] in ''Call Us What We Carry;'' by Mia You in ''Poetry'';<ref>{{Cite web |last=Foundation |first=Poetry |date=2023-11-27 |title=Authentic Fake by Mia You |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/159868/authentic-fake |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=Poetry Foundation |language=en}}</ref> and by [[Cathy Park Hong]] in ''Minor Feelings.'' In 2017, 2018, and more recently, "A Refuge for Jae-in Doe" and Chu's advocacy for survivors have sparked dialogue about MeToo in [[Academy|academia]], particularly at Stanford. Media attention has included articles in [[New York (magazine)|New York Magazine]],<ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite web |first1=Irin |last1=Carmon |first2=Amelia |last2=Schonbek |date=2019-09-30 |title=Coming Forward About Sexual Assault, and What Comes After |url=https://www.thecut.com/2019/09/coming-forward-about-sexual-assault-and-what-comes-after.html |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=The Cut |language=en}}</ref> [[KQED (TV)|KQED]],<ref name=":6" /> [[The New Republic]],<ref name=":7" /> [[The Washington Post]],<ref name="WaPo Academias Metoo" /> [[Literary Hub]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-04-18 |title=The Impossible, Crucial Task of Teaching About Rape as a Survivor |url=https://lithub.com/the-impossible-crucial-task-of-teaching-about-rape-as-a-survivor/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=Literary Hub |language=en-US}}</ref> [[The Chronicle of Higher Education]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schmalz |first=Julia |title='My Professional World Has Gotten Smaller' |url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/my-professional-world-has-gotten-smaller/ }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Mangan |first=Katherine |date=November 11, 2017 |title=2 Women Say Stanford Professors Raped Them Years Ago |url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/2-women-say-stanford-professors-raped-them-years-ago/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Here's What Sexual Harassment Looks Like in Higher Education |url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/heres-what-sexual-harassment-looks-like-in-higher-education/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Sexual Harassment and Assault in Higher Ed: What's Happened Since Weinstein |url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/sexual-harassment-and-assault-in-higher-ed-whats-happened-since-weinstein/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=What Happens When Sex Harassment Disrupts Victims' Academic Careers |url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA521459037&sid=sitemap&v=2.1&it=r&p=EAIM&sw=w&userGroupName=nysl_oweb&isGeoAuthType=true&aty=geo}}</ref> [[The Stanford Daily]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-02-26 |title=Provost, General Counsel offer personal contributions to anti-sexual assault organization after Stanford denies Fliegelman victim's request for donation |url=https://stanforddaily.com/2018/02/26/provost-general-counsel-offer-personal-contributions-to-anti-sexual-assault-organization-after-stanford-denies-fliegelman-victims-request-for-donation/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":14" /><ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-12-05 |title=An open letter to Stanford on sexual harassment in academia |url=https://stanforddaily.com/2017/12/05/an-open-letter-to-stanford-on-sexual-harassment-in-academia/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="ReferenceB">{{Cite web |date=2017-12-02 |title=Behind the Fliegelman sexual misconduct investigation |url=https://stanforddaily.com/2017/12/02/behind-the-fliegelman-sexual-misconduct-investigation/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="stanforddaily.com" /><ref name="ReferenceA" /><ref name=":3" /> NBC News,<ref name=":5" /> [[Amerasia Journal]],<ref name=":13" /> and [[Inside Higher Ed]].<ref name="amazon.com"/><ref name="Seo-Young Chu 주서영"/>


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Seo-Young Jennie Chu
Born(1978-02-14)February 14, 1978
Virginia
OccupationAcademic, writer, artist, poet, #MeToo activist, Associate Professor
CitizenshipU.S.
Alma mater2007 – PhD in English, Harvard University
Subjectaesthetics, Asian American literature, autotheory, cognitively estranging referents, death, digital writing, disability, dreams, Englishes, the Korean DMZ, Emily Dickinson, globalization, the gothic, han, Korea, mental illness, poetry, Postmemory Han, rape culture, robots, science fiction, sexual violence, suicide, theory, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, trauma, the uncanny valley
Literary movementautotheory, #MeToo, feminism, experimental writing, speculative memoir
Notable worksA Refuge for Jae-In Doe, Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep?
The native form of this personal name is Chu Seo-Young. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
In this Korean name, the family name is Chu.

Seo-Young Chu (Korean: 주서영; born February 14, 1978) is a queer Korean American scholar, feminist, poet, #MeToo activist, and associate professor of English at Queens College, CUNY.[1][2][3][4][5] She is the author of A Refuge for Jae-in Doe[6][7] and Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation.[8][9]

Chu is best known for her scholarship on science fiction,[10] her writing on the Koreas,[11][12][13] her work on postmemory han,[14] her work on the uncanny valley,[15] her creative nonfiction and lyric poems exploring mental illness and sexual violence,[9][7][16] and her work as an activist against rape culture on college campuses.[17][18][19] She was one of the earliest #MeTooAcademia advocates, first speaking out in 2017, and remains active in the movement.[17][19][20][21][22][23] She frequently campaigns for universities and colleges to create more robust sexual harassment policies, and enforce them.[24][17][25] She also regularly speaks out on behalf of sexual assault victims in academia, encouraging universities to take accusations seriously, respond with compassion, and provide help to victims.[26][21][27][19][4] She has also spoken out about sexual violence in Asian Americans.[28][29][30]

Life

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According to Chu's autobiographical essay "Free Indirect Suicide," published in The Rumpus in March 2019, Chu was born in 1978 in Northern Virginia to Korean parents.[31] According to a 2023 article in The Knight News, Chu's mother was born during the Korean War and Chu's father was orphaned by the Korean War.[32] Chu is open about her struggles with generational trauma, bipolar disorder, rape trauma, and complex post-traumatic stress, writing publicly about her multiple psychiatric hospitalizations and life as a disabled person.[33][34][35] The Amazon author biography for Chu describes her as a "queer agnostic spinster".[36][37]

In 2000, several months after surviving her first suicide attempt as a graduating senior at Yale, and shortly after starting a PhD program in the Department of English at Stanford University, Chu was sexually harassed and raped by the William Robertson Coe Professor in American Literature at Stanford University Jay Fliegelman, for whom she was working as a teaching assistant and research assistant.[38][39][40] Due to pressure from her parents to keep quiet, Chu never pressed charges and never hired a lawyer.[41] Nonetheless, the law required Stanford University to conduct an independent investigation that resulted in significant sanctions against Fliegelman, including suspension for two years without pay.[3][2] During his suspension from 2000 to 2002, Fliegelman was still granted access to students and university resources.[42] After his suspension, Stanford covered up both the abuse and the punishment by naming mentorship awards and a library[43] after Fliegelman.[44][41][45][46][47]

Subsequent to being abused at Stanford, Chu changed her name from Jennie to Seo-Young,[48][47] changed her field from Early American Literature to science fiction, and reapplied to PhD programs, transferring in 2001 to Harvard University, where she worked with Elaine Scarry and earned a PhD in English and American Literature and Language in 2007.[49][50] In 2008, Chu published an influential essay on postmemory han and Korean American literature in MELUS.[14] In 2009, Chu started a tenure-track position in the Department of English at Queens College, CUNY. In 2011, Chu published a well-received monograph titled Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation (Harvard University Press). In 2016, Chu earned tenure at Queens College, CUNY.[51][52]

In 2017 Chu published "A Refuge for Jae-in Doe,"[53] in Entropy Magazine, in which Chu wrote about being abused at Stanford and living with posttraumatic stress.[54] The publication became part of the dialogue about #MeToo and #MeTooAcademia in particular.[54][55] "A Refuge for Jae-in Doe" was selected for inclusion in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018, Best American Experimental Writing 2020, and Advanced Creative Nonfiction: A Writer's Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Writer's Guides and Anthologies).[56] In 2021, Chu successfully campaigned for Stanford to remove Fliegelman's name from the Fliegelman Library of Association Copies, though what happened to the collection of expensive rare books, many of which were financed by Stanford University, and some of which Fliegelman used to molest Chu and others,[57][17][58] remains less than clear.[44][59][11][45][60]

Education

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In 1999 Chu earned a B.A. degree from Yale.[61] In 2001, Chu earned a M.A. degree from Stanford. In 2007, Chu earned a Ph.D. degree from Harvard.[49]

Work

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Chu has written and spoken about science fiction,[8] the DMZ in Korea,[62][63] postmemory han, poetry,[60] North Korea, her experiences as a survivor of sexual violence in the English Department at Stanford University,[54][60][17][47] and her struggles with bipolar disorder and suicidal ideation.[31][54][64][38][55][65][66][67][4][68][17][35] Her publications include "Survivor-Shaped Specters and Gaps,"[23] "Excerpts from an Anti-Standardized '수능': A Design-Fictional Approach to Korea,"[69] "I, Discomfort Woman: A Fugue in F Minor,"[70][11] "Dear Stanford: You Must Reckon With Your History of Sexual Violence,"[17][25] "Welcome to the Vegas Pyongyang,"[71] Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation,[8] "Hwabyung Fragments,"[72] "Are Postmodernism and MeToo Incompatible?,"[73] "Science Fiction and Postmemory Han in Contemporary Korean American Literature,"[14] "The DMZ Responds,"[12] "A Refuge for Jae-in Doe: Fugues in the Key of English Major,"[7] "M'어머니,"[74] "Dream of the Ambassador, 12/21/2016,"[75] "The Lyric We,"[75] "Two Koreas, in the Key of Emily Dickinson,"[75] "Chogakpo Fantasia,"[76] "Dickinson and Mathematics,"[77][78] "Emoji Poetics,"[79] "Tiny Art Museum for the Floater in My Eye,"[80] "I, Stereotype: Detained in the Uncanny Valley,"[81] "Dystopian Surface, Utopian Dream,"[82] "Free Indirect Suicide: An Unfinished Fugue In H Minor,"[16] "Old Typewriter in a Field,"[83] "Translator of Soliloquies,"[84] "Utopias Misplaced: The Cost of Outsourcing Dystopian Poetics to North Korea,"[85][86][87][88] "Hypnotic Ratiocination,"[89] "The Dream Life of Waste: Archaeologies of the Soul in the Key of Capitalism,"[90] "jogakpo window (7 feet x 4 feet),"[91] and "Imagining an Asian American Superhero of North Korean Origin."[92][9] Chu is also a contributing writer to the experimental film I See You and You See Me (2021), which tells "Stories of Queens residents during the time of the coronavirus."[93][94][95][96]

Chu's creative nonfiction has been listed among "Notable Essays & Literary Nonfiction" in The Best American Essays 2020 and anthologized in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018,[97] Best American Experimental Writing 2020,[98] and Advanced Creative Nonfiction.[99] Her work has been cited by Jia Tolentino in The New Yorker[100]; by Amanda Gorman in Call Us What We Carry; by Mia You in Poetry;[101] and by Cathy Park Hong in Minor Feelings. In 2017, 2018, and more recently, "A Refuge for Jae-in Doe" and Chu's advocacy for survivors have sparked dialogue about MeToo in academia, particularly at Stanford. Media attention has included articles in New York Magazine,[27][102] KQED,[2] The New Republic,[3] The Washington Post,[4] Literary Hub,[103] The Chronicle of Higher Education,[104][105][106][107][108] The Stanford Daily,[109][17][24][110][111][22][59][21] NBC News,[28] Amerasia Journal,[30] and Inside Higher Ed.[92][49]

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