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Seo-Young Chu
Born(1978-02-14)February 14, 1978
Virginia
OccupationAcademic, writer, #MeToo activist, Associate Professor
Alma mater2007 – PhD in English, Harvard University
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 (Template:Lang-ko; 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,[16][7][17] and her work as an activist against rape culture on college campuses.[18][19][20] She was one of the earliest #MeTooAcademia advocates, first speaking out in 2017, and remains active in the movement.[21][20][22][23][24] She frequently campaigns for universities and colleges to create more robust sexual harassment policies, and enforce them.[25][18][26][27] 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.[28][29][30][20][4] She has also spoken out about sexual violence in Asian America.[31]

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.[32] She is open about her struggles with bipolar disorder and complex post-traumatic stress.[33][34] The Amazon author biography for Chu describes her as a "queer agnostic spinster".[35][36]

In 2000, shortly after her 22nd birthday, Chu was sexually harassed and assaulted by her then-dissertation adviser Jay Fliegelman.[37][38][39] 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[40] after him.[41][42][43][44] After being abused at Stanford, Chu changed her name from Jennie to Seo-Young,[45][46] 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.[47] In 2017 Chu published "A Refuge for Jae-in Doe,"[48] in Entropy Magazine, in which Chu wrote about being abused at Stanford and living with posttraumatic stress.[49] The publication became part of the dialogue about #MeToo and #MeTooAcademia in particular.[49][50] "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).[51] 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,[52][21][53] remains unknown.[54][55][56]

Education

In 1999 Chu earned a B.A. degree from Yale.[57] In 2001, Chu earned a M.A. degree from Stanford.[58] In 2007, Chu earned a Ph.D. degree from Harvard.[59]

Work

Chu has written and spoken about science fiction,[8] the DMZ in Korea,[60][61] postmemory han, poetry, North Korea, her experiences as a survivor of sexual violence in the English Department at Stanford University,[49] and her struggles with bipolar disorder and suicidal ideation.[32][49][62][37][50][63][64][65][4][66][26] Her publications include “Excerpts from an Anti-Standardized ‘수능’: A Design-Fictional Approach to Korea,”[67] "I, Discomfort Woman: A Fugue in F Minor,"[68][55] "Dear Stanford: You Must Reckon With Your History of Sexual Violence,"[69][27] “Welcome to the Vegas Pyongyang,”[70] Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation,[8] "Hwabyung Fragments,"[71] “Are Postmodernism and MeToo Incompatible?,”[72] "Science Fiction and Postmemory Han in Contemporary Korean American Literature,"[73] "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,”[17] "Old Typewriter in a Field,” "Translator of Soliloquies,"[83] "Utopias Misplaced: The Cost of Outsourcing Dystopian Poetics to North Korea,"[84][85][86][87] "Hypnotic Ratiocination,"[88] "The Dream Life of Waste: Archaeologies of the Soul in the Key of Capitalism,"[89] "jogakpo window (7 feet x 4 feet),"[90] and “Imagining an Asian American Superhero of North Korean Origin.”[91][92] 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]

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,[94] Best American Experimental Writing 2020,[95] and Advanced Creative Nonfiction.[96] Her work has been cited by Jia Tolentino in The New Yorker[97]; by Amanda Gorman in Call Us What We Carry; by Mia You in Poetry[98]; 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,[30][99] KQED,[2] The New Republic,[3] The Washington Post,[4] Literary Hub,[100] The Chronicle of Higher Education,[101][102][103][104][105] The Stanford Daily,[106][21][25][107][108][109][110][111][29] NBC News,[31] and Inside Higher Ed.[112][113]

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