Sungkyung Cho
PhD — ABD
M.A. in Comparative Literature, Seoul National University
B.A. in English, Oberlin College
skcho@brandeis.edu
Primary Advisor
Laura Quinney
Research Interests
Romantic poetry and prose; the history of moral and political thought in the long eighteenth century; literature and the discourse of poverty and inequality; race and empire; manuscript and textual studies
Publications
"Intellectual History and Post-Literary Study" (review essay about What is Intellectual History? by Richard Whatmore), In/Outside: English Studies in Korea 49 (Nov. 2020), 380-88. [in Korean]
"Kleist's 'Das Erdbeben in Chili' and Benjamin's 'Das Erdbeben Von Lissabon,'" Hesse-Forschung 40 (Dec. 2018), 199-217. [in Korean]
English translation of Jung-hwan Cheon, "Laboring Intellectuals, Writing Workers: A New Critical Perspective on 1980s-1990s Korean Cultural History," Ex-Position 40 (Dec. 2018), 37-56.
Presented Papers
“Poetry and Self-Love: The Peacock-Shelley Debate Revisited” Romanticism Across Borders Doctoral Seminar, Université Paris Cité, France, 2024.
“Shaftesbury and Shelley's ‘Satire upon Satire’” NASSR/ICR Conference, “Romantic Insurrections / Counter-Insurrections,” Georgetown University, 2024.
"Poetry as Renewal: Shelley Between the Ancients and the Moderns," BARS/NASSR Conference ("New Romanticisms"), 2022.
"Liberty and Empire in James Boswell's 'No Abolition of Slavery,'" Second Year Symposium, Brandeis University, 2020.
Grants and Awards
Provost Dissertation Research Award, Brandeis University, 2025
Mandel Center for the Humanities Graduate Research Grant, Brandeis University, 2024
Race and Literary Studies Graduate Fellowship, Brandeis University, 2022
Shirle Dorothy Robbins Creative Writing Prize, Brandeis University, 2021-23
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, Brandeis University, Spring 2021
Courses Taught
As Primary Instructor
ENG 24b – Thinking about Civilization in an Age of Book Banning, Brandeis University, Spring 2023
As Teaching Fellow
ENG 33a – Shakespeare, 2023
ENG 50b – American Independent Film, 2022
ENG 147a – Film Noir, 2021
ENG 30b – American Film Auteurs of the 1970s, 2021