User:Kwon Teck-young

In this Korean name, the family name is Kwon.

Kwon Teck-Young
File:Tykwon.jpg Kwon Teck-Young at Kyunghee University in Seoul (2002)
Nationality	South Korean
Website	Kyunghee University
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Present : Professor at English Department, Kyunghee University, Seoul, Korea Research Interests : American Literature, Joyce, Korean Literature, Post‐colonialism, Multiculturalism, Psychoanalysis, Cultural Studies, Taoism, Aesthetics, Literature and Environment. Notable works and roles : "Lacan, Chuang‐Tuz, and Korean Flag" / "Body and Aesthetics" / Founding Member of Korean Association of Psychoanalysis and Socio‐ Humanities, Currently the President of KAPS

Korean name
Hangul	권택영
Revised Romanization	Kwŏn Taekyŏng
McCune–Reischauer	Kwŏn Taek-yŏng

Resume

Name: Teckyoung Kwon

Sex: Female

School Address: Hoegidong 1, Dongdaemunku, Seoul, Korea.

School of English KyungHee University office : 02-961-0410, 0876

fax : 02-961-9193

Email: teckyoungkwon@hotmail.com

Education and Research

Aug 1980: PhD in English at the University of Nebraska‐Lincoln, U.S.A.

1986: Visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley (Critical Theory)

2001: Visiting scholar at the Kent State University (Psychoanalysis and Taoism)

1980-present: Professor at English Department, KyungHee University, Seoul, Korea

2001‐2003: Dean of the School of English

Research Interests: Psychoanalysis, Fiction, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Narrative Theory, NeuroHumanities, Daoism.

Reference Room

Publications

Books

1990: Post‐Structuralism and Literary Theory (Seoul: Minum‐Sa publishing Co.)

1990: What is Post‐Modernism? (Seoul: Minum‐Sa): a steady seller in Korea: the 10th printing in 2012.

1992: Post‐Modernism and culture (Seoul: Munyae)

1994: Lacan and Desire (editing and translating Lacan’s major writings) (Seoul: Munyae): a steady seller in Korea

1995: How to read a Fiction? (Fiction and Narrative Theories)(Seoul: Munyae): The Best Book of the Year by Ministry of Culture and Education: the 11th printing in 2012.

1995: Desire in the Film and Fiction (Seoul: Minum‐Sa)

1997: Writing in the Multicultural Age (Seoul: Munyae) Winner of Kim-Hwantae Critic Award (on Korean Literature)

1998: Freud: Sexuality and Power (Seoul: Munyae)

1999: Love Will (Novel) (Seoul: Minum‐Sa)

2001: In the Realm of the Senses: Lacan and film Interpretations (Seoul: Minum‐Sa)

2002: Semiotics, Philosophy and Art (with Lee Do Hum, Seoul: Somyong)

2003: Lacan, Zhuangzi, and Korean Flag (Seoul: Minum‐Sa)

2004: Age of Surplus Enjoyment: Žižek and Post‐industrial Society (Seoul: Munyae)

2005: Body and Aesthetics (Seoul: KyungHee University Press)

2007: Educational Books 100 (with Others) (Seoul: Kyunghee University Press)

2007: Going Across a Border Line of Prejudice and Ignorance (with Others, Seoul: Bogosa)

2010: Jacques Lacan: Nature and Man (Seoul: HanKook Munhwa-sa) The Best Book of the Year by Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism

2014: Bio-Humanity: Beyond the Boundary between Man and Nature (Seoul: Jip Moon Dang Publisher) supported by A-San Foundation

2015: Selected Literary Essays on Korean Literature of Teckyoung Kwon (one of 50 Korean Literary Critics of the 20th Century) (Seoul: Giman-G. Publisher).

Translations into Korean

1985: A Glossary of Literary Terms by M.H.Abrams (with Choi Dong Ho, Seoul: Saemoonsa)

1988: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Nabokov (Seoul: Chung Ha)

1988: Deconstructive Criticism by Vincent B. Leith (Seoul: Munyae)

1989: Psychoanalytic Criticism: Theory in Practice by Elizabeth Wright (Seoul: Munyae)

1992: Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method by Gerard Genett (Seoul: KyoboMungo)

1993: Translating Works of Doris Lessing and Other Writers (Seoul: Minumsa)

1993: Deconstructive critism : an advanced introduction by Leitch, Vincent B. (Seoul: Munyae)

1997: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (with Critical Introduction, Seoul: Minumsa)

1999: True at First Light by Ernest Hemingway E. (Seoul: Munhak Sasangsa)

2004: The Way of Zhuangzi by Thomas Merton Seoul: Yuenhang Namoo)

2007: The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer (Seoul: Minumsa)

2010: The Call of the Wild by Jack London (Seoul: Minumsa)

Selected Articles (published in Seoul)

Articles since 2000

2000: "Lacan's Courtly Love and Lolita" (The Jouranl of Crticism and Theory)

2000: "The Politics of Jouissance" (Journal of Lacan & Contemporary Psychoanalysis)

2000: "Discourse of Novel and Movie" (Seoul: Literary Forum)

2000: "The Present Topic and Problem of Our Novel" (Seoul: La Plume)

2000: "Translation as Transference-Lolita" (The Korean Association Translation Studies)

2000: "Freud's Aesthetics" (Korean Literary Theory and Criticism)

2001: "The Role and Task of Criticism" (Poet and Life)

2001: "Psychoanalysis and Possibility of New Realism - The Mirror Stage" (Seoul: Are)

2001: "Desire from Kant with Sade: Reading American Beauty" (Seoul: Munhak)

2001: "Patricide: Freud and Lacan's Desire" (The Society of Poetics & Linguistics)

2001: "Death Drive Makes a Plot: Don DeLillo's White Noise" (The Journal of English Language and Literature)

2002: "The Transformations of Jouissance in a Mythic Knowledge" (Journal of Lacan & Contemporary Psychoanalysis)

2002: "Butler's Queer Theory and Psychoanalysis" (Feminist Studies in English Literature)

2002: "A Gesture Life as Gaze: the Multicultural Ethnics of Lacan and Chang‐Rae Lee" (The Journal of English Language and Literature)

2002: "Korean Flag, Chuang‐Tuz, and Lacan" (Seoul: Munyae Chungang)

2003: "Toni Morrison's Sula: The Real and the Politics of Body" (Studies in Modern Fiction)

2003: "The Return of Aesthetics: The Real in Slavoj Žižek’s's Psychoanalysis" (The Journal of Criticism and Theory)

2004: "The Eternal Return: Beyond the Opposition of New Historicism to Psychoanalysis" (Modern Studies in English Language & Literature)

2004: "Return to Freud: Does Lacanian Signifier Mean Love or Hate?" (Journal of Lacan & Contemporary Psychoanalysis)

2004: "The Politics of Negativity: Adorno and Chuang‐Tzu" (Korean Literary Theory and Criticism)

2005: "Mode of Remembering in Keller's Comfort Woman" (Studies in Hawthorne & American Novel)

2005: "Enlightenment and Negativity: The Korean Images Portrayed in Mao ll and Native Speaker" (Journal of American Studies)

2005: "JongSaeng‐Gi": The Works of Sang Lee from a Perspective of Symptoms" (Korean Literary Theory and Criticism)

2005: "Research for Foundation Studies" (Academic Research Support System of Korea Research Foundation)

2005: "The Gaze of the Camera and the Death of the Writer: Don DeLillo’s Mao 2" (The Journal of English Language and Literature)

2006: "Lacan and Joyce: Writing as Symptom" (Journal of James Joyce)

2006: "Korean Trauma in American Fiction: Repeating Images in "Chosun Episode" and Dictee" (American Fiction Studies)

2007: "The Number 4 Revisited in Joyce and Lacan" (Journal of James Joyce)

2007: "Empedocles's 'Rhizomata' and Lacan's Nature" (Korean Literary Theory and Criticism)

2007: "Emersonian Pragmatism in Light of Taoism: The Revision toward Ecology" (The Journal of English Language and Literature)

2007: "Body's Reading - Gaze of Gayatri Spivak and Trans-Nationalism" (Center for The Reconstruction of Human Society KyungHee University)

2007: "The Role Change of The Modern Situation and Narration" (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)

2007: "Sharp Satire on a Modern Consumer Society" (Munhak Sasangsa Inc. Citizen Girl)

2007: "Body's Reading: For Trans-National Reading (Korea Reading Association and Korean Association of Psychoanalysis and Socio‐ Humanities)

2007: "Melancholia and Violence in Korean Culture" (Chung-Ang University Germania The 100th Anniversary Edition)

2007: "Melancholia and Violence in Korean Culture: Focus on the Latest Narrative" (The Journal of Social Paradigm Studies)

2007: "Toward Mourning out of Melancholia" (The Daesan Foundation)

2007: "Hegel's Aesthetics and Others" (The Journal of Korean Publishers Association)

2008: “The Phenomenology of War in Mailer’s The Armies of the Night” (The Journal of English Language and Literature)

2008: “Sublime Beauty and Productive Circulation: The Role of a Third Space” (Transformative Challenges: Modern Civilization and Beyond)

2008: “A Transition towards the Post-Classical Narratologies: Space and Time as the Other (Korean Literary Theory and Criticism)

2008: “The Position of the Implied Author in Nabokov’s Lolita (American Fiction studies)

2009: “Reading Chung-jun Lee’s Fiction as Symptom” (Korean Literary Theory and Criticism)

2009: “Narrative Theories of America and Europe: The Implied Author and Narrator” (Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies)

2009: The Paradigm Shift in Narratology: From Structure to Reading Experience (Oughtopia: The Journal of Social Paradigm Studies)

2009: Theory and Form in Narrative: Genette and Metafiction (Journal of American Studies)

2010: Disputes on Freudian Legacy and a Paradigm Shift (The Journal of English Language and Literature)

2010: Phenomenological Body: Chunsoo Kim’s “Flower” and ChungJoon Lee’s Return to the Native Place (Korean Literary Theory and Criticism)

2010: The Materiality of Body and the Paradigm Shift (Kyung Hee Studies of Humanities)

2011: Theoretical Background of Eco-humanism: Towards Bio-humanity (Korean Literary theory and Criticism)

2011: Merleau-Ponty’s Intertwining as a Theory of Communion (The Journal of English Language and Literature)

2013: Neuro-Humanities: The Recent Discourses on Memory and Cognition (Psychoanalysis)

Articles since 1990

1990:「Post-Modern Tendency in Korean Poetry」(현대시세계)

1990:「Fantastic Realism, Minimalism: Where is the New Fiction Style in the World going? 」(Munhak Sasangsa)

1990:「All Literature with Story: Northrop Frye's『Anatomy of Criticism』」(The Journal of East-West literature)

1990:「Three Elements of the Creation of Novel: Brooks and Warren's『The Understanding Fiction』」(The Journal of East-West literature)

1991:「Life as Being, Not Having: Winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature Nadine Gordimer's Literature and Life」(Munhak Sasangsa)

1991:「Critical Accepting the Foreign Theory: Arguments for and against Postmodernism」(세계의 문학)

1991:「In Search of Lost Time: Gerard Genette's「Narrative Discourse」」(The Journal of East-West literature)

1992:「The World of Derek Walcott's Work: ‘Making up with the Root’」(The Journal of East-West literature)

1993:「Urban and Literature: From Cheonggyecheon To Apgujung-dong」(문학정신)

1995:「Challenge and Dissatisfaction in the Postmodernist Novel」(Literary Joongang)

1995:「Ideology of Desire and Quest For Reconciliation」(Novel & Thought)

1995:「Limits of Point-of-View Theory and Possibility of Psychoanalytic Theory」(Munhak Sasangsa)

1995:「Postmodernism - Philosophical and Aesthetic Understanding」(Munyae)

1995:「Reading Cultures in Postcolonialism」(Poetry & Thought)

1995:「Postcolonialism and Cultural Position - Edward Said and Homi Bhabha 」(Munyae)

1996:「A World Where a Solution is Another Problem: The Uncanny of Freud and Tonni Morrison」(The Journal of Humanities Kyung-Hee)

1996:「Moment and Reflection of Ambiguity: On the Recent Cultural Trend」(HWANG HAE REVIEW)

1996:「Postcolonialism and Culture Critisism」(Poetry & Thought)

1996:「Why is Culture Critisism - Spivak and Postcolonialism」(문예한국)

1996:「New Direction of Literary Criticism」(CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE)

1996:「The World of Janet Frame's Work」(Novel & Thought)

1996:「Modernization Process and Existentialism - Female Literature in Korean Literature」(La Plume)

1996:「Reflection on the Nobel Prize in Literature - The Lamp Keeping True Spirit of Arts」(Munhak Sasangsa)

1996:「From External Repression To Internal Repression - Female Literature in the Korean Novels from 1980s to the 1990s」(La Plume)

1996:「Conception of the Other in Modern Literature」(Poetry & Thought)

1997:「Psychoanalytic Approach to Metaphor and Metonymy」(The Journal of Human Science Sungshin Women's University)

1997:「Freud's Revolutionary Mirror, Jacque Lacan: A Special Thinker Applying Structural Linguistics to Psychoanalysis」(Munhak Sasangsa)

1997:「Border-Crossing Between The Popular Literature and The Pure Literature」(Munhak Sasangsa)

1997:「Korean Woman's Portrait in Korean Literature: Social Change and Women's Consciousness: Focusing on Women's Novel」(Institute of Korean Literature Studies Academy of Cultural Studies Dongguk University)

1997:「Postmodernism in Korean Literature」(Munyae)

1997:「Psychoanalysis and Feminism」, French Philosophy and Ourselves

1997:「Resistible Characteristics in Novel of The Anti-Culture and The Anti-Aesthetic 」(Munhak Sasangsa)

1997:「The Other in the Hybrid Narrative - The Comparison of Morrison`s with Coetzee`s」(Studies in Modern Fiction)

1998:「Repetition without Exit - Lee Sang's Modernism」(Studies in the Literature of Lee Sang 60years)

1998:「Freud and Psychoanalysis」(Korea Research Foundation)

1998:「The Secret Relation Between Eros and Civilization」(Korean Imago)

1998:「A Series of Special Issue on The 20th Century Thought, <Freud's Sexuality and Power>」(La Plume)

1998:「Two-phase on Transference:「Citizen Kane」and「The Usual Suspects」(For Literary Consciousness)

1998:「The Subject and The Other: Other's Ethics」(Novel & Thought)

1999:「Meaning and Non-meaning of Resistance」(HWANG HAE REVIEW)

1999:「“The 21st Century and Other's Ethics”, <A New Look at Women's Culture>」(The Journal of Humanities Kyung-Hee University)

1999:「Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism」(Munyae)

1999:「Cultural Clash and Narrative Root - New trends in Recent English Novel」(Munhak Sasang)

1999:「The Critic on Otherness: Overcoming The Limits of Technological Civilization」(Korean Literature)

1999:「『Lolita』and Other's Ethics」(THE INSTITUTE FOR NORTH-EAST ASIAN STUDIES CHUNG-ANG UNIVERSITY)

1999:「Lightness of Being and Otherness: The World of Milan Kundera's Work」(La Plume)

1999:「In Search of the Issue on Korean Literary Criticism - “Feminist Debate”」(한국문학평론)

1999:「For the Other」(한국문학평론)

Articles since 1980

1981:「Faulkner's『Go Down, Moses』- Focusing on the Plot」

1982:「The Process of Weathering in Self-Identity: Fitzgerald's『Tender Is the Night』」(The Journal of Humanities Kyung-Hee :University)

1983:「Universality of Ellison's Novel: Invisible Man: We are all invisible」(The Journal of Humanities Kyung-Hee University)

1988:「Deconstructive Reading: Focusing on Barthe's「S/Z」」(현대문학)

1988:「Escape from Labyrinth: On Realistic Trend in the Recent American Novel」(문학정신)

1988:「「I am a Black Woman Writer」: Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize-The World of Toni Morrison's Work」(Munhak Sasangsa)

1988:「Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism: Focusing on Lacan」(현대문학)

1988:「Literary Works and Regionalism: Focused on Willa Cather」(The Journal of Humanities Kyung-Hee University)

1988:「Ironic Over-Lapped Realism Mixed with Tension and Illusion」(Journal of East-West literature)

1989:「 A Plane Narration and A Solid(body): Lubbock's『The Craft of Fiction』」(The Journal of East-West literature)

1989:「Escape from “Technique”: Forster's 『Aspects of the Novel』」(The Journal of East-West literature)

1989:「Defamiliarization: Narrative Theory of Russian Formalism」(The Journal of East-West literature)

1989:「The Rhetoric in Language」(세계의 문학)

1989:「Two Aspects of Self-Conscious Narrative」(Literature & Society)

1989:「The Past and Present of Feminist Criticism」(Munhak Sasangsa)

1989:「New Realistic Novel」(현대문학)

(Publications in U.S.A): A & HCI Journals

2010: “Materiality of Remembering: Freud’s Wolf Man and the Biological Dimensions of Memory.” New Literary History 41. 1(2010 Winter): 213-232.

2011: “Nabokov’s Memory War against Freud” American Imago. 68.1 (2011 Spring): 67-91.

2015: “Love as an Act of Dissimulation in “The Beast in the Jungle.” Henry James Review. 36 (2015): 148-162.

Paper Presentations for the International Conferences

2000.11: "Lacan's Courtly Love and Lolita" at the 6th Annual Conference of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (University of Santa Barbara)

2001.11: "Changrae Lee's A Gesture Life and Lacan's Multicultural Ethics" at the 7th Annual Conference of APCS (Rutgus University)

2004. 09: “Rethinking Emersonian Pragmatism in Light of Tao” at the International Conference held by ASAK( American Studies Asscociation of Korea) (Seoul)

2004.10: "Democracy for the Real" at the Annual Conference of APCS(Columbia University)

2004.10: "Rethinking Traditional American Values in a Global Context" Conference held by Korean Association for American Studies (Seoul)

2007.05: "From Aesthetics to Green Aesthetics: Lacan, Joyce, Chuang‐tzu" at the International Conference for the Society of Psychoanalysis and Socio‐Humanities (Seoul)

2007.10: “The Sublime Beauty and the Productive Circulation: the Role of the Third Space.” at the International Conference entitled ‘the World Peace and New Political Paradigm in a Global Age’ sponsored by Kyunghee Neo-Renaissance Movement for Humanities.

2008.03-05: A Visiting Scholar at the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Rollins College, FL, for finishing the book, Four Discourses, Four Seasons to publish in U.S.A.

2009.06-04: “Fictional Author and Unreliability in Lolita.” The 2009 International Conference of Narrative Theory, at the Birmingham, U.K.

2009.06-08: “Lolita in Light of Paradigm Shift.” The Special Lecture at The JASS (Japanese Association of American Studies) Pro-Seminar at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan.

2010.10.08. “Materiality in Lacan’s Play of the Signifier: Freud after Derrida.” Mosaic Conference 2010: “ Freud After Derrida,” at University of Manitoba in Canada.

2013.05-10. “Memory and the Play of the Signifiers in ‘The Beast in the Jungle.’” International Henry James Conference at Baskent University in Turkey.

2014.07.21-25. “Experience of Tragedy: Affect and Cognition.” IGEL Conference for the Empirical Studies of Literature at Turin, Italy.

2015. 06-23-27. “Art as Nature: Ecological Consciousness in Nabokov’s Despair.” 2015 ASLE Conference, at Moscow, University of Idaho. U.S.A.

Other Activities

Awards

1997: Distinguished Critic of the Year (Kim-Hwantae Critic Awards)

1997: Distinguished Allumni Award by Kung Hee University Many times of Research Awards from National Research Foundation of Korea, and Kyung Hee University Special Research Professor since 2000 at Kyung Hee University

2010-2011: Kyung Hee Fellow

2012-2017: National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) Fellow for “Excellence Scholarship in Humanities”

Experiences

Editor of several Korean Literary Magazines including Literature of East and West (1989~1994), La Plume,(1995~2002), The Other Criticism (2002~‐2004)

1998~2000, 2001~2003: Editorial Board of Journal of English Language and Literature

2002~2004: The President of Korean Society of Lacan and Contemporary Psychoanalysis

2004: Founding Member of Korean Association of Psychoanalysis and Socio‐Humanities

2005-2007: President of the American Fiction Association of Korea

2006-2007: Currently the President of KAPS

2007: Organizer of the International Conference for KAPS on “Psychoanalysis and the New Political Paradigm in a Global Age.”

2007: Selected as the president of The Korean Society of American Studies for 2008

2007: The President of Korean Association of Psychoanalysis and Socio‐ Humanities

2007: Editor of The Korean Association Translation Studies

2007: Editor of The Modem English Society of Korea

2007: A Literary Critic of KBS 1 Radio Program

2007/03/19: A Literary Critic of KBS TV Program

2007/04/09: Lecture on "The Importance of Originality and Globalizationm" in Daejin University

2007/06/08~/06/19: Examiner at Korea Research Foundation

2007/06/25~06/26: Examiner at Korea Research Foundation

2007/06/30~07/11: Examiner at Korea Research Foundation

2007/10/26~10/30: Examiner at Korea Research Foundation

2007/11/02 Lecture on "Phenomenology in War: The Armies of the Night and The Real" (War in American Literature in The 30th English Language and Literature Association of Korea)

2008: President-elect of ASAK( The American Studies Association of Korea)

2006-2008: A Founding Member, and the President of KAPS(Korean Association of Psychoanalysis and Society)

2009: The President of ASAK