I think folks on this list located in Seoul will be interested in this very special guest lecture:<div><br></div><div>Rob Wilson, Professor of Literature, UC Santa Cruz:</div><div><br></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b>“Waking to Global Capitalism in Seoul: Situating Korean Studies in the
World.” </b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">This talk
will explore linkages between American studies and Korean studies in the
context of globalization.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">When: June
27<sup>th</sup>, 4:30 pm</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Where: Kyung
Hee University, Seoul Campus, Moon 302</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Rob Wilson
first came to Korea as a Fulbright Professor of American Literature at Korea
University in 1982.<span style> </span>Following that
visit, he published a collection of poems entitled <i style>Waking in Seoul</i> (U of Hawaii P, 1988), which was co-published by
Mineumsa Press in Seoul.<span style> </span>Some of
these poems were translated into Korean by Hwang Tong-gyu in Segye Munhak.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">In 2004
Wilson was a Visiting Research Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies,
Korea National University of the Arts.<span style>
</span>Following that visit, he published, “Korean Cinema on the Road to
Globalization” (<i style>Inter-Asia Cultural
Studies</i>, 2009).</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Rob Wilson
is the author and co-editor of many important books that bridge the fields of
American Studies, Asia Pacific Studies, Globalization Studies, and Cultural
Studies: </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">-<i style>American Sublime</i> (U of Wisconsin P,
1991)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">-<i style>Reimagining the American Pacific</i> (Duke
UP, 2000)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">-<i style>Be Always Converting, Be Always Converted:
An American Poetics</i> (Harvard UP, 2009)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">-<i style>Beat Attitudes</i> (New Pacific Press,
2010).</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Wilson also
co-edited:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style> </span>-<i style>Global/Local:
Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary</i> (Duke UP, 1996)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">-<i style>Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production</i>
(Duke UP, 1996)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">-<i style>The Worlding Project: Doing Cultural Studies
in an Era of Globalization</i> (North Atlantic Books, 2007).</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Wilson
serves on the Advisory Editorial Board of <i style>boundary</i>
2, <i style>Chaminade Literary Review</i>, <i style>Comparative American Studies</i>, <i style>Cultural Studies</i>, <i style>Inter-Asia Cultural Studies</i>.</p>
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