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Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of California - Los Angeles, 2006
U of M Affiliation(s)
Center for Korean Studies
Contact Information
University of Michigan
202 South Thayer Street
Suite 6111 - 1608
Email: yjryu@umich.edu |
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Fields of Study
Korean literature and culture
About Youngju Ryu
Youngju Ryu specializes in literature and culture of modern Korea, with emphases on philosophies of writing, literary practice and sociopolitical change, conceptions of community in popular cultural forms, and the history of magazines. Her teaching interests include premodern and modern fiction, contemporary poetry, popular culture, and cultural geography, as well as literary theory, utopianism, and theories of the communal. She is currently writing a history of twentieth century Korean literature titled The Writer’s Century: Literature as Revolution in Modern Korea.
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