Adhy Kim
Assistant Professor, Literatures in English and Asian American Studies
Academic focus:
Transnational Asian/American and Asian diasporic literature, Korea, Japan, global Asias
Current research project:
My book project studies how speculative literature engages with natural history and with memory institutions like peace parks and museums to rethink post-1945 U.S.-Northeast Asian geopolitics.
Previous positions:
Lecturer, History & Literature, Harvard University, 2022-2024
Academic background:
Ph.D., English and comparative literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2022
B.Mus., Piano performance, Lawrence University, 2014
B.A., English, Lawrence University, 2014
Last book read:
“How Far the Light Reaches” by Sabrina Imbler
In your own time/when not working:
Watching movies and T.V., enjoying green spaces and the performing arts, reading, working on languages
Courses you’re most looking forward to teaching:
Courses on speculative fiction and U.S. empire
What most excites you about Cornell:
The community, the beautiful location, and meeting amazing intellectual and cultural workers across fields and disciplines
