korean PROGRAM

WELCOME TO PROF. MICKEY HONG'S WEBPAGE

Mickey Hong
Associate Professor, Korean Language and Civilization
Coordinator, Staff and Organizational Development
hongmj@lacitycollege.edu

Educational Background

University of California, Los Angeles

  • Candidate in Philosophy, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Winter 2006
  • Master of Arts, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Winter 1996

University of California, Santa Cruz

  • Bachelor of Arts, English/American Literature with Honors in Major, Summer 1992.

Working Dissertation Title

"The Poetic Self in Colonial Modernity"

Academic/Research Interest

1930's Korean modernist poetry; Urban culture of Colonial Korea

Experiences Abroad

  • EF Educational Tours, Madrid and Barcelona, Spain; Lille and Paris, France, Winter 2004
  • UCLA Summer Travel-Study in Paris, France (Advanced Curriculum), Summer 2000
  • Fulbright Fellow at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 1997-1998

Academic Publications

(All translations are from Korean to English)

  • Interview, “Peter H. Lee: Fifty Years with Korean Literature in America," Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture, Korea Institute Harvard University, 2007.
  • Translation, preface by Son Chint'ae, Introduction to the History of Korean People.John B. Duncan, ed. "Korean Colonial History and Literary Criticism Anthology." (forthcoming).
  • Translation, Kim Chŏngnan’s introduction and Ch'oe Sŭngja’s poems. Peter H. Lee, ed. Echoing Song: Contemporary Korean Women Poets. Buffalo, NY: White Pine Press, 2005.
  • Translation, poetry of No Ch'ŏnmyŏng. David R. McCann, ed.Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry.New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.
  • "Desire and Decadence: The Poetic Self in Colonial Modernity."Tae Yang Kwak, ed. Select Papers of the Korean Studies Graduate Student Conference 2003.Cambridge, MA: Korea Institute, 2003.
  • Translation, chapters "Chosŏn Fiction in Korean" by Kim Hŭnggyu and "Late Twentieth-Century Poetry by Women” by Kim Chŏngnan. Peter H. Lee, ed.A History of Korean Literature.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
  • Translation, chapters "Origin Myth of the House God" and "Myth of Seven Stars," Seo Dae-seok (S Taesŏk). Myths of Korea, Peter H. Lee, ed. Seoul: Jimoondang, 2000.