- Comparative Korean and Japanese literature
- Imperial legacies in East Asia
- Postcolonial, gender, and cultural studies
Collaborative Researcher
Dr. Nadeschda Bachem (Assistant professor Korean Studies University of Bonn, Germany)
Dr. Nadeschda Bachem is assistant professor for Korean Studies at University of Bonn. She received her PhD in Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies at SOAS, University of London in 2019. Her current research interests are
Dr. Hyuk-Sook Kim (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
As an expert on literary translation with a focus on contemporary literature, language, and culture of both South Korea and Germany, Dr. Hyuk-Sook Kim offers translation and language proficiency classes at Goethe-University, Frankfurt.
Dr Joohyun Justine Park (Research professor, Inha University, Korea)
Dr Joohyun Justine Park is a research professor at Inha University and an external member of the collaborative research project “Qualification and Skill in the Migration Process of Foreign Workers in Asia”. Additionally, she serves as a visiting scholar at the Migration Research and Training Centre in Korea. Dr. Park previously worked as a post-doc at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, and earned her PhD in Education at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her research areas include migrants' settling practices, well-being, acculturation, sense of belonging, multicultural local governance, and interculturalism.
Tanja Eydam (PhD candidate Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
Her interdisciplinary PhD research explores (re-) presentations of Germany and Germans on South Korean television, specifically travel variety shows, in relation to globalization, power relations and national identity.
Alexandra Fuchs (PhD candidate Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
Na-Rhee Scherfling (PhD candidate Korean Studies Universitiy Hamburg, Germany)
Katharina Süberkrüb (PhD candidate Korean Studies Universitiy Hamburg, Germany)
Her doctoral thesis explores European encounters with Korean material culture towards the end of the Chosŏn Dynasty and contributes to provenance research on Korean collections in Europe.
Marion Wambold (PhD candidate Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
Her doctoral thesis analyses the public discourse on refugees in South Korea by examining newspapers on a macro and micro level in order to detect possible shifts in relation to several notable incidents.
Ruixin Wei (PhD candidate Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
Her doctoral thesis focuses on the mobility of the Korean-Chinese students (mainly the third generation) in both China and South Korea. The purpose of the research is to further the understanding of a young Korean Chinese generation, their cultural capital and the potential social mobility.