Contact Information
English Building 220
PhD Candidate, Literary Studies
Biography
Yoonsuh Kim is a PhD Candidate at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign with research interests in medical humanities, environmental humanities, and turn-of-the-century American literature. She is working on her dissertation, Writing for Public Health: Medicine, Statistics, and Literature in the Progressive Era, where she explores how diverse literary genres helped represent, navigate, and mitigate public health crises at a formative time for modern public health policy in the United States.
Education
- M.A. Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
- B.A. Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
Grants
- Dissertation Fellowship (Fall 2023- Spring 2025)
- Decyk Summer Research Fellowship (Summer 2023, Summer 2024)
- Fulbright Scholar (Fall 2020- Spring 2022)
Awards and Honors
- HRI Graduate Research Prize Honorable Mention: "Sacredly Confidential" (Spring 2024)
- C19 Early Career Scholar Travel Award (Spring 2024)
Courses Taught
- ENGL 251: The 20th Century American Novel (Spring 2024)
- ENGL 255: Early American Literature and Culture, Teaching Assistant (Fall 2023)
- RHET 105: Writing and Research (Fall 2022, Spring 2023)
Additional Campus Affiliations
- Environmental Humanities Cluster
- Medical Humanities Cluster
- Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Highlighted Publications
- “Beyond Regions: Iron, Mobility, and the Toxic Imaginary in ‘Life in the Iron Mills’" (forthcoming in American Literary Realism)