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Location: 3600 Market Street, Suite 310

Philadelphia, PA 19104

About the Speaker:

Si Nae Park is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. Park received her PhD in Asian Studies from the University of British Columbia. Park’s research examines the literature and literary practices of Chosŏn Korea within the larger context of the Sinographic Cosmopolis, with broad interests in charting the ways in which the Korean language—written, spoken, and imagined—coexisted with, mediated, and assimilated Literary Sinitic and sinographs as a shared ‘scripta franca’ of premodern East Asia. To that end, she combines textual analysis with insights from linguistic anthropology, history of the book and of reading, and history of writing. She has written on the vernacular story (yadam)genre, fiction glossaries (sosŏl ŏrokhae), and vernacularized Confucian Classics (kyŏngsŏ ŏnhae). She is a co-editor of Score One for the Dancing Girl and Other Selections from the Kimun ch’onghwa: A Story Collection from Nineteenth-Century Korea (University of Toronto Press, 2016) and author of The Korean Vernacular Story: Telling Tales of Contemporary Chosŏn in Sinographic Writing (Columbia University, 2020). Her current book project is tentatively titled Writing as Utterance: The Culture of Reading, Script, and Literature in Chosŏn Korea. She is also developing a new book-length study to explore book collecting, anthologizing, and book-list making activities to trace the emergent perceptions of ‘Korean classics’ at the turn of the twentieth century.

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