It’s been almost a year since I posted and a lot of things have happened (including a global and ongoing pandemic!). I finished my second year in graduate school, which means that I officially obtained my MA in English (I’m in a six-year MA-PhD conjoint program, so I will officially begin the PhD portion thisContinue reading “Thoughts at the End of My MA”
Tag Archives: English literature
READ! Disappearing Mothers in Lisa Ko’s The Leavers and Shin Kyung-Sook’s Please Look After Mom
Hello, I’m back after another long absence! Despite it being summer break, I haven’t made posts any more frequently than during the school semester (to be fair, I just survived taking summer Chinese language classes—don’t think it will actually help me in my research, but it was actually a lot of fun!). I want toContinue reading “READ! Disappearing Mothers in Lisa Ko’s The Leavers and Shin Kyung-Sook’s Please Look After Mom”
The Book History of East Goes West: The Makings of an Oriental Yankee
I already did a blog post a few months ago about how much I enjoyed Younghill Kang’s East Goes West: The Makings of an Oriental Yankee, but I thought I would share information about its book history. I wrote this as an assignment last semester and since all the grading is finished for that class IContinue reading “The Book History of East Goes West: The Makings of an Oriental Yankee”
READ! The Monster by Stephen Crane
Making regular blog posts is proving to be difficult—but if I can’t make posts that are particularly insightful or original, I thought the least I could do is share some of the cool stuff I’ve been reading for my classes (and there has there been a lot of reading). I’ve read only oneContinue reading “READ! The Monster by Stephen Crane”
READ! East Goes West: The Making of an Oriental Yankee
When I first moved to New Zealand from Korea in first grade, I knew nothing about Korean literature beyond Korean folktales I read in the form of picture books. I only opened my eyes to the joys of reading when I started reading in English, first to better my grasp of this new foreign languageContinue reading “READ! East Goes West: The Making of an Oriental Yankee”
Su Cool for School 