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Revision as of 03:43, 28 April 2019
Template:Korean name Seo-Young Chu (Template:Lang-ko; born February 14, 1978) is a Korean American scholar, poet, #MeToo activist, and associate professor of English at Queens College, CUNY.[1][2][3][4][5] She is the author of Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation.[6]
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 Korean parents.[7] The Amazon author biography for Chu describes her as a "queer agnostic spinster".[8][9]
In 2000, Chu was sexually harassed and assaulted by her then-dissertation adviser Jay Fliegelman.[10][11] In 2017 Chu published "A Refuge for Jae-in Doe," in Entropy Magazine, in which Chu wrote about being abused at Stanford and living with posttraumatic stress.[12] The publication became part of the dialogue about #MeToo.[12][13] "A Refuge for Jae-in Doe" was selected for inclusion in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018.[14]
Education
Work
Chu has written and spoken about science fiction,[6] the DMZ in Korea,[15] postmemory han, poetry, North Korea, her experiences as a survivor of sexual violence in the English Department at Stanford University,[12] and her struggles with bipolar disorder and suicidal ideation.[7][12][16][10][13][17][18][19][4][20]
References
- ^ "Queens College Department of English » Seo-Young Chu".
- ^ "Former Grad Students: Our Professors Raped Us". KQED. December 7, 2017.
- ^ Hsu, Irene; Stone, Rachel (November 30, 2017). ""A Professor Is Kind of Like a Priest"" – via The New Republic.
- ^ a b Nick Anderson (May 10, 2018). "Academia's #MeToo moment: Women accuse professors of sexual misconduct". The Washington Post.
- ^ Ed, Op (December 5, 2017). "An open letter to Stanford on sexual harassment in academia".
- ^ a b Chu, Seo-Young (2010). Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep?. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674055179.
- ^ a b Seo-Young Chu (March 26, 2019). "Free Indirect Suicide: An Unfinished Fugue in H Minor". The Rumpus.
- ^ https://www.amazon.com/Seo-Young-Chu/e/B003IO5NWA
- ^ https://www.amazon.com/Metaphors-Literal-Science-Fictional-Theory-Representation/dp/0674055179
- ^ a b "Essay about being raped by professor sparks call for public acknowledgment from Stanford and disciplinary society". www.insidehighered.com.
- ^ Schmalz, Julia (May 11, 2018). "'My Professional World Has Gotten Smaller'" – via The Chronicle of Higher Education.
- ^ a b c d "WOVEN: A Refuge for Jae-in Doe: Fugues in the Key of English Major".
- ^ a b Mangan, Katherine (November 11, 2017). "2 Women Say Stanford Professors Raped Them Years Ago" – via The Chronicle of Higher Education.
- ^ https://www.amazon.com/Best-American-Nonrequired-Reading-2018/dp/1328465810
- ^ Seo-Young Chu (November 29, 2018). "The DMZ Responds". Telos.
- ^ "M'어머니 by Seo-Young Chu (KR 17, Spring 2017)". www.kartikareview.com.
- ^ http://asapjournal.com/after-a-refuge-for-jae-in-doe-a-social-media-chronology/
- ^ "Utopias Misplaced: The Cost of Outsourcing Dystopian Poetics to North Korea". May 7, 2015 – via YouTube.
- ^ Seo-Young Chu (Winter 2008). "Science Fiction and Postmemory Han in Contemporary Korean American Literature". MELUS. 33 (4): 97–121. JSTOR 20343509.
- ^ Emily DeRuy (December 1, 2017) [November 30, 2017]. "Stanford: Sexual misconduct revelation exposes storied professor's secret". Mercury News.
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