Kwon Teckyoung


Teckyoung Kwon is a literary critic, translator and professor in English literature at the School of English, Kyung Hee University, Seoul. Her research interests are psychoanalysis, ecology, American and British fiction, narrative theory, neuro-humanities, Korean literature and Dao.

Education and career

Kwon received her PhD in English from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 1980.
From 1980 to present she has been professor of English at Kyung Hee University. She was visiting scholar in critical theory at the University of California, Berkeley in 1986. Between 1989 and 1995 she was editor of several Korean literary magazines including Literature of East and West, La Plume, and The Other Criticism at the Kent State University in 2001.
Her research interests include: psychoanalysis, ecology, American and British fiction, narrative theory, neuro-humanities, Korean literature and Dao.

Roles

  • 2002-2004: Korean Society of Lacan and Contemporary Psychoanalysis, president
  • 2005-2007: American Fiction Association of Korea, president
  • 2006-2008: KAPS, founding member and president
  • 2007: International conference for Korean Association of Psychoanalysis and Society on "Psychoanalysis and the New Political Paradigm in the Global Age", organiser
  • 2008: American Studies Association of Korea, president-elect
  • 2009: American Studies Association of Korea, president

Awards

  • Multiple research awards from the National Research Foundation of Korea and Kyung Hee University
  • 1997: Distinguished Critic of the Year - Kim-Hwantae Critic Award
  • 1997: Distinguished Alumni Award by Kung Hee University
  • 2000 on: Special Research Professor, Kyung Hee University
  • 2010-2011: Kyung Hee fellow
  • 2012-2017: National Research Foundation of Korea fellow for "excellent scholarship in humanities"

Publications

Books

  • 1990: Post-Structuralism and Literary Theory
  • 1990: What is Post-Modernism? : a steady seller in Korea: the 10th printing in 2012.
  • 1994: Lacan and Desire : a steady seller in Korea
  • 1995: How to Read a Fiction?. The Best Book of the Year by Ministry of Culture and Education: the 11th printing in 2012.
  • 1995: Desire in the Film and Fiction
  • 1997: Writing in the Multicultural Age Winner of Kim-Hwantae Critic Award
  • 1998: Freud: Sexuality and Power
  • 2001: In the Realm of the Senses: Lacan and Film Interpretations
  • 2002: Lacan, Zhuangzi, and Korean Flag
  • 2003: Age of Surplus Enjoyment: ?i?ek and Post-industrial Society
  • 2005: Body and Aesthetics
  • 2010: Jacques Lacan: Nature and Man The Best Book of the Year by Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism
  • 2014: Bio-Humanity: Beyond the Boundary between Man and Nature supported by A-San Research Foundation
  • 2015: Selected Literary Essays on Korean Literature of Teckyoung Kwon .
  • 2017. Nabokov's Mimicry of Freud: Art as Science. New York: Lexington Books, Imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.
  • 2018. Deception in Thinking: Why AI can't be the human brain. Seoul: Writing-Pot, 2018.
  • 2021. Emotion: The importance of a warm and intimate feeling. Seoul: Writing-Pot, 2021

Translations into Korean

  • 1988: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Nabokov
  • 1988: Deconstructive Criticism by Vincent B. Leith
  • 1989: Psychoanalytic Criticism: Theory in Practice by Elizabeth Wright
  • 1992: Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method by Gerard Genette
  • 1997: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  • 2004: The Way of Zhuangzi by Thomas Merton
  • 2007: The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer
  • 2010: The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Selected articles since 2000 (published in Seoul)

  • 2000: "Lacan's Courtly Love and Lolita "
  • 2001: "Death Drive Makes a Plot: Don DeLillo's White Noise"
  • 2002: "The Transformations of Jouissance in a Mythic Knowledge"
  • 2002: "Butler's Queer Theory and Psychoanalysis"
  • 2002: "A Gesture Life as Gaze: the Multicultural Ethics of Lacan and Chang-Rae Lee"
  • 2003: "Toni Morrison's Sula: The Real and the Politics of Body"
  • 2003: "The Return of Aesthetics: The Real in Slavoj Žižek's Psychoanalysis"
  • 2004: "The Eternal Return: Beyond the Opposition of New Historicism to Psychoanalysis
  • 2004: "Return to Freud: Does Lacanian Signifier Mean Love or Hate?"
  • 2004: "The Politics of Negativity: Adorno and Chuang-Tzu"
  • 2005: "Mode of Remembering in Keller's Comfort Woman"
  • 2005: "Enlightenment and Negativity: The Korean Images Portrayed in Mao ll and Native Speaker"
  • 2005: "JongSaeng-Gi": The Works of Sang Lee from a Perspective of Symptoms"
  • 2006: "Lacan and Joyce: Writing as Symptom"
  • 2006: "Korean Trauma in American Fiction: Repeating Images in "Chosun Episode" and Dictee"
  • 2007: "Empedocles's ‘Rhizomata’ and Lacan's Nature"
  • 2007: "The Number 4 Revisited in Joyce and Lacan"
  • 2007: "Emersonian Pragmatism in Light of Taoism: The Revision toward Ecology"
  • 2008: "The Phenomenology of War in Mailer's The Armies of the Night"
  • 2008: "Sublime Beauty and Productive Circulation: The Role of a Third Space"
  • 2008: "A Transition towards the Post-Classical Narratologies: Space and Time as the Other
  • 2008: "The Position of the Implied Author in Nabokov's Lolita
  • 2009: "Reading Chung-jun Lee's Fiction as Symptom"
  • 2009: "Narrative Theories of America and Europe: The Implied Author and Narrator"
  • 2009: The Paradigm Shift in Narratology: From Structure to Reading Experience
  • 2009: Theory and Form in Narrative: Genette and Metafiction
  • 2010: Disputes on Freudian Legacy and a Paradigm Shift
  • 2010: Phenomenological Body: Chunsoo Kim's "Flower" and ChungJoon Lee's Return to the Native Place
  • 2010: The Materiality of Body and the Paradigm Shift
  • 2011: Theoretical Background of Eco-humanism: Towards Bio-humanity
  • 2011: Merleau-Ponty's Intertwining as a Theory of Communion
  • 2013: Neuro-Humanities: The Recent Discourses on Memory and Cognition

(Publications in U.S.A): A & HCI Journals

  • 2010: "Materiality of Remembering: Freud's Wolf Man and the Biological Dimensions of Memory." New Literary History 41. 1: 213–232.
  • 2011: "Nabokov's Memory War against Freud" American Imago. 68.1 : 67–91.
  • 2015: "Love as an Act of Dissimulation in "The Beast in the Jungle." Henry James Review 36 : 148–162.
  • 2016: Bahn, Geon Ho, Teckyoung Kwon, & Minha Hong. “Empathy in Medical Education.” Psychology and Neurobiology of Empathy. Eds. Watt, Douglas F. & Jaak Panksepp, New York: Nova Biomedical Publisher, pp. 229- 258.
  • 2020: Teckyoung Kwon. “Nabokov and Indeterminacy: The Case of The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Priscilla Meyer.” Studies in the Novel 52.1, pp. 101-102.