Dorothy Kim

Assistant Professor of English

Departments/Programs

English
Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Degrees

University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles, M.A.
University of California, Berkeley, B.A.

Expertise

English literature, Medieval Studies, Book History, Premodern Critical Race, Gender and Sexuality, Jewish/Christian relations, Digital Humanities, Digital Media, Digital Alt-Right, Medievalism

Profile

Dorothy Kim teaches Medieval Literature at Brandeis University. Her research focuses on race, gender, digital humanities, medieval women’s literary cultures, medievalism, Jewish/Christian difference, book history, digital media, and the alt-right. She was a 2013-2014 Fellow at the University of Michigan’s Frankel Institute of Advanced Judaic Studies where she drafted a monograph entitled Jewish/Christian Entanglements: Ancrene Wisse and its Material Worlds (under submission, University of Penn Press). She also has another book, The Alt-Medieval: Digital Whiteness and Medieval Studies forthcoming with the University of Minnesota Press. She has a forthcoming book with Lynn Ramey entitled Global Medieval Digital Humanities (Cambridge UP). She has received fellowships from the SSHRC, Ford Foundation, Fulbright, AAUW, and Mellon. She is the co-project director in the NEH-funded Scholarly Editions and Translations project An Archive of Early Middle English that plans to create a 161 MSS database for medieval English manuscripts from 1100-1348 that include all items in Early Middle English. This project is in the process of moving into the Brandeis University DH Lab. She is a project co-PI for the Global Middle Ages Project (http://globalmiddleages.org) She has co-edited two collections in the Digital Humanities. The first collection, co-edited with Jesse Stommel (University of Mary Washington) on Disrupting the Digital Humanities (punctum books, 2019), discusses the marginal methodologies and critical diversities in the Digital Humanities. The second collection, co-edited with Adeline Koh on Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities (forthcoming 2020, punctum books), examines the difficult histories of the digital humanities in relation to race, sexuality, gender, disability, fascism. She is co-editing A Cultural History of Race in the Renaissance and Early Modern Age (1350-1550) with Kimberly Coles (University of Maryland, College Park) with Bloomsbury (forthcoming 2020). She has edited a special issue of Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality on Medieval Trans Feminisms (October 2019). She edited a double-issue of Literature Compass on Critical Race and the Middle Ages (December 2019). She is the medieval editor for the Orlando Project 2.0 (https://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/orlando/?page_id=62) and the co-editor for Literature Compass’s pre-1800 section with Ruth Connolly (Newcastle University) and the Associate Editor for the Journal of Early Middle English (ArcPress/Amsterdam UP). She spent 2018-2019 AAUW fellow working on her next book, Race, the Crusades, and the Katherine Group.

Courses Taught

CLAS/ENG	153b	Race Before Race: Premodern Critical Race Studies
ENG	20b	Literary Games
ENG	41a	Critical Digital Humanities Methods and Applications
ENG	43b	Medieval Play: Drama, LARP, and Video Games
ENG	143a	The History of Mediascapes and Critical Maker Culture
ENG	143b	Chaucer’s "Global and Refugee Canterbury Tales"
ENG	144a	Medieval Travel Writing
ENG	152b	Arthurian Literature
ENG	248b	Social Justice and Digital Humanities: Methods and Applications
ENG	253b	Medieval Women and the Book

Awards and Honors

American Association of University Women Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2018 - 2019)

Scholarship

Kim, Dorothy. The Alt-Medieval: Digital Whiteness and Medieval Studies. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. (forthcoming)

Kim, Dorothy. "The Rules of Twitter." Hybrid Pedagogy. (2015): 254-266. Hybrid Pedagogy. Ed. Jesse Stommel, Chris Friend, Sean Michael Morris, with a foreword by Ruha Benjamin. Washington D.C.: Hybrid Pedagogy, 2021.

Kim, Dorothy and G.W. Bychowski. "Visions of Medieval Trans Feminism." Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal fo Gender and Sexuality 55. 1 (2019): 6-41.

Kim, Dorothy. "DH, Intersectionality, and the Ethics of Harm." Intersectionality in Digital Humanities. Ed. Barbara Bordalejo and Roopika Risam. Amsterdam UP/Arc Humanities Press: Amsterdam, 2019. 45-58.