Theodore Q. Hughes

The Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Modern and contemporary Korean literature and film

Theodore Hughes received his Ph.D. in modern Korean literature from the University of California, Los Angeles (2002). His research interests include coloniality; proletarian literature and art; cultures of national division; visuality and the global Cold War. He is the author of Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea: Freedom’s Frontier (Columbia University Press, 2012) and the co-editor of Rat Fire: Korean Stories from the Japanese Empire (forthcoming from Cornell East Asia Series, 2013). Other publications include “Korean Literature Across Colonial Modernity and Cold War” (PMLA, 2011); “Planet Hallyuwood: Imaging the Korean War” (Acta Koreana, 2011); "Return to the Colonial Present: Ch'oe In-hun's Cold War Pan-Asianism" (positions: east asia cultures critique, 2011); "'North Koreans' and other Virtual Subjects: Kim Yong-ha, Hwang Suk-young, and National Division in the Age of Posthumanism" (The Review of Korean Studies, 2008); "Korean Memories of the Vietnam and Korean Wars: A Counter-History" (Japan Focus, 2007); "Korean Visual Modernity and the Developmental Imagination" (SAI, 2006); "Development as Devolution: Nam Chong-hyon and the 'Land of Excrement' Incident" (Journal of Korean Studies, 2005); "Producing Sovereign Spaces in the Emerging Cold War World Order: Immediate Postliberation 'North' and 'South' Korean Literature" (Han'guk Munhak Yon'gu, 2005); Panmunjom and Other Stories by Lee Ho-Chul (Norwalk: EastBridge, 2005). He is currently working on an interdisciplinary cultural history of the Korean War tentatively titled The Remembered War: Violence, Trauma, Division in Korea.

Email: th2150@columbia.edu