Telephone number:	+31 (0)71 527 4137
E-Mail:	j.lee@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department:	Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leiden Institute for Area Studies, SAS Korea
Office Address:	Johan Huizingagebouw Doelensteeg 16 2311 VL Leiden Room number 0.11a

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Fields of interest

Modern Korean literature, colonial history, religion, Buddhism

PhD research

Buddhist writers in colonial Korea (1910-1945)
Supervisor: Boudewijn Walraven

Jung-Shim's PhD research centers on a group of Buddhist writers in colonial Korea (1910-1945). It is a broad attempt to re-examine interactions between religion and literature to produce history during the colonial period. It explicitly questions simplistic narratives of still-dominant nationalist approaches. Jung-Shim explores how religious writers presented a wide range of individual experience, discourses and counter-discourses, alternative historical narratives, and nuanced and multi-layered responses to colonialism and nationalism.

CV

2008-2009
A committee member of KSGSC (Korean Studies Graduate Students’ Convention in Europe)

2008
A conference organizer of the 5^th KSGSC (Leiden University)

2005
Dutch language course (completed the highest level)

2002 - present
Ph.D. student, Centre for Korean Studies, Leiden University

2001 - 2002
Advanced Master’s Programme, CNWS (Research School of Asian, African and Amerindien Studies), Leiden University

1998 - 2001
MA Korean studies, Graduate School of Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea

1999-2000
Religious Studies, Luzern University, Switzerland

1997
Germanistik, Bonn University, Germany

1996 - 1997
Junior-Year-Programme, Bonn University, Germany

1993 - 1998
BA German language and literature, Ewha Womans University, Korea

Publications

“Women, Confucianism and nation-building in Han Yongun’s novel Death”, IIAS Newsletter (http://www.iias.nl/newsletter-54), No 54, (Summer 2010)

“Han Yongun’s novel Death: questioning a monk’s nation-building project” in Religion, Identity and Conflict (Proceedings, Postgraduate Workshop, Leiden University 2009), edited by Toru Aoyama, Tokyo: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS), March 2010.

“History as colonial storytelling: Yi Kwangsu’s historical novels on fifteenth-century Chosŏn history”, Korean Histories (http://www.koreanhistories.org) vol.1:1 (2009), pp. 81-105.

“New for old: Kim Ir-yǒp’s Buddhist stories in the age of yǒnae” in ArOr (Archiv Orientální/Oriental Archive: Quarterly Journal of African and Asian Studies), Vol. 76, 2008.

“Fifteenth-century history and Buddhist approaches to colonial landscape in Hong Sayong’s writings from the early 1920s” in Korea in the Middle- Korean Studies and Area Studies: Essays in Honour of Boudewijn Walraven. Ed. Remco E. Breuker. Leiden: Research School CNWS, 2007.

“강간당한 조선여자 거세당한 조선남자: 식민지소설 『무정』으로 보는 성과 식민지주의” (Raped Korean women, emasculated Korean men: sexuality and colonialism in colonial novel Mujŏng) in 국제고려학회서울지부논문집 (ISKS: International Society for Korean Studies) May 2006.

“Wŏnhyo taesa: the hidden transcript of a Buddhist novel” in One Hundred Years of Change: Korean Religion and Literature in the 20^th Century. KAREC Discussion Paper Vol.6, No.7, 2005.

“The Religious Thought of Yi Kwangsu (1892-1950)” (MA Thesis Graduate School of Ewha Womans University, 2002)

Teaching

2007 - 2009
Centre for Korean Studies, Leiden University
(BA Courses: Basic Korean composition, Modern Korean intermediate, Media and popular academic text reading, text analysis)