Sangmi Bae is currently a research professor of the BK21 Four for the Education and Research of Korean Language and Literature at Korea University. Her research focuses on representations of gender, labor, and sexuality in modern and contemporary Korea and transnational East Asia. Her first book, Revolutionary Women: Gender, Labor, Sexuality in Colonial Korean Proletarian Literature (2019), examines characterizations of women at the forefront of the struggle against capitalism, racism, and gender binaries in colonial Korean proletarian literature. Her current book project surveys the narrative forms in Korean and Japanese literature portraying women involved in the sex industry for the US military from 1945 to 1969, discussing the aesthetic challenges to their depiction resulting from colonialism, nationalism, misogyny, and censorship in Korean and Japanese society.
Jeff Eden is assistant professor of history at Northwestern University. His books include God Save the USSR: Soviet Muslims and the Second World War (2021),...
