Dr. Hee-Jung Serenity Joo
(on research/study leave Feb.1 - July 31, 2022)

Associate Professor
Office: 634 Fletcher Argue
Phone: (204) 474-8143
Email: Hee-JungSerenity.Joo@umanitoba.ca

Education: PhD (University of Oregon), BA summa cum laude (Louisiana State University)

Recent Courses:

• Comparative African American and Asian American Literatures
• Science, Fiction, and Race
• Disaster Fiction and Film
• Introduction to Critical Theory
• Literature Since 1900

Areas of Specialization:

20th–century American literature; ethnic American literature; speculative fiction; critical race studies; globalization.

Other Interests / Recent Undertakings:

• Comfort Women and the Problem of Human Rights, Presentation at a SSHRC-sponsored workshop entitled "Museum Openings: Caring for Difficult Knowledge," to coincide with the opening of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
• Recent publications include articles on race, speculative fiction, and futurity in MELUS, LIT, Extrapolation, American Studies, and Critique
• Co-wrote and published two articles on collaborative resistance and public humanities
• Currently writing a book-length project on disaster narratives and racial formation
• Coordinator, Queer Biopolitics Research Cluster (faculty-student research group sponsored by the University of Manitoba's Institute for the Humanities)
• Freelance translator/interpreter of Korean-English