Introduction: Intermedial Aesthetics: Korean Literature, Film, and Art

Theodore Hughes is Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities and Director of the Center for Korean Research at Columbia University. He is the author of Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea: Freedom’s Frontier (Columbia University Press, 2012), the co-editor of Rat Fire: Korean Stories from the Japanese Empire (Cornell East Asia Series, 2013), and the translator of Panmunjom and Other Stories by Lee Ho-Chul (EastBridge, 2005).

Jina Kim is a research associate at the James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and visiting assistant professor of East Asian studies at Dickinson College (2015–16). Her research and teaching interests focus on the cultural and literary history of Korea from the nineteenth century to the present with a particular emphasis on global and Korean modernisms, urban studies, comparative colonialism, and intermediality.