Joey S. Kim (she/her)
@joeykim.bsky.social
Professor, poet, scholar, parent
Work on global 19th c. lit, romanticism, Asian American lit, K-culture 🇰🇷, and creative writing
Books: Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation, Body Facts: Poems
www.joeyskim.com
Work on global 19th c. lit, romanticism, Asian American lit, K-culture 🇰🇷, and creative writing
Books: Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation, Body Facts: Poems
www.joeyskim.com
"If you come up the path through time’s protensity you’ll find me in this yellow November, a muddle of sun beside me on the ground. I’ll be lost in thought, unhappy with the common
marigold’s heavy stink, dreaming of feathery things with berries." -from "Tough Zinnias" by Alice Fulton.
marigold’s heavy stink, dreaming of feathery things with berries." -from "Tough Zinnias" by Alice Fulton.
November 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"If you come up the path through time’s protensity you’ll find me in this yellow November, a muddle of sun beside me on the ground. I’ll be lost in thought, unhappy with the common
marigold’s heavy stink, dreaming of feathery things with berries." -from "Tough Zinnias" by Alice Fulton.
marigold’s heavy stink, dreaming of feathery things with berries." -from "Tough Zinnias" by Alice Fulton.
Got to celebrate @ayendy.bsky.social getting tenure and promoted to associate professor today! Congrats, love! 🎉👏🏼💕
October 31, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Got to celebrate @ayendy.bsky.social getting tenure and promoted to associate professor today! Congrats, love! 🎉👏🏼💕
Today in my British Victorian literature class, a student leading discussion gifted each of us a handmade, up cycled bookmark 🔖 with various colors and charms to choose from! Such a generous, thoughtful 🎁
September 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Today in my British Victorian literature class, a student leading discussion gifted each of us a handmade, up cycled bookmark 🔖 with various colors and charms to choose from! Such a generous, thoughtful 🎁
Check out this TOC of the Korea Review, an English-language monthly magazine published in Korea from 1901-06 before the Japanese occupation. #research #inthearchives
September 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Check out this TOC of the Korea Review, an English-language monthly magazine published in Korea from 1901-06 before the Japanese occupation. #research #inthearchives
Celebrating another good week in the books!
September 21, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Celebrating another good week in the books!
A student was presenting on Jane Eyre, beauty, and ended with some book covers. She shared this one. I had to see it, so you should to 😂😮
September 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
A student was presenting on Jane Eyre, beauty, and ended with some book covers. She shared this one. I had to see it, so you should to 😂😮
In these times, more motivated than ever to get back in the classroom. Teaching Asian American lit, Victorian lit, stepping in as Director of Grad Studies, and going up for early tenure. Big year ahead—let’s go! ✨📚🔥
August 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
In these times, more motivated than ever to get back in the classroom. Teaching Asian American lit, Victorian lit, stepping in as Director of Grad Studies, and going up for early tenure. Big year ahead—let’s go! ✨📚🔥
Happy Gwangbokjeol, or “The Day that Light Returned” for Korea after 35 years of Japanese occupation 🙏🏼
August 16, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Happy Gwangbokjeol, or “The Day that Light Returned” for Korea after 35 years of Japanese occupation 🙏🏼
August is 🌻 season in our garden 🪴 🙏🏼
August 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
August is 🌻 season in our garden 🪴 🙏🏼
Next on my reading list! Working with an honors student on trans structures of feeling in Frankenstein and he requested we read this 💎 by @hilmalatino.bsky.social! 👏🏼
August 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Next on my reading list! Working with an honors student on trans structures of feeling in Frankenstein and he requested we read this 💎 by @hilmalatino.bsky.social! 👏🏼
This week I’m syllabusing my Asian American Archives course and trying to write a C19 paper proposal, but they’re making it really hard. 🙈😭
August 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
This week I’m syllabusing my Asian American Archives course and trying to write a C19 paper proposal, but they’re making it really hard. 🙈😭
Reading dd’s Umbrella by Hwang Jungeun, a 2‑novella work about a nonbinary gig worker in Seoul mourning the sudden loss of their lover & a writer reflecting on queer lives & solidarity after the Sewol ferry disaster. Translated from Korean by E. Yaewon, the brilliant translator of Han Kang. (1/2)
August 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Reading dd’s Umbrella by Hwang Jungeun, a 2‑novella work about a nonbinary gig worker in Seoul mourning the sudden loss of their lover & a writer reflecting on queer lives & solidarity after the Sewol ferry disaster. Translated from Korean by E. Yaewon, the brilliant translator of Han Kang. (1/2)
My little one, always basketball 🏀 dreaming 💫
July 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
My little one, always basketball 🏀 dreaming 💫
“What is a feminist theory of exhaustion?…We are exhausted from feminism but decidedly not taking a ‘break’ from its demands. We are doing it tired.” Incredible essay by Jennifer C. Nash & Samantha Pinto in @differences.bsky.social. Free to read: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
July 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
“What is a feminist theory of exhaustion?…We are exhausted from feminism but decidedly not taking a ‘break’ from its demands. We are doing it tired.” Incredible essay by Jennifer C. Nash & Samantha Pinto in @differences.bsky.social. Free to read: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
“When at last the guns were silent,-in the graves where children lay. The crying passed away, & the dead had stopped their weeping. Little children sleeping while the night turned into day.” -Howard Fast’s “Korean Lullaby” 1950, at the start of the Korean War. All too resonant with Gaza’s children.
July 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
“When at last the guns were silent,-in the graves where children lay. The crying passed away, & the dead had stopped their weeping. Little children sleeping while the night turned into day.” -Howard Fast’s “Korean Lullaby” 1950, at the start of the Korean War. All too resonant with Gaza’s children.
Lines that struck me in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Exilée and Temps Morts 🖤
July 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Lines that struck me in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Exilée and Temps Morts 🖤
Revising some poems. 🎶 🇰🇷
July 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Revising some poems. 🎶 🇰🇷
“For us, everybody had somebody they—“Before the DMZ” by Cindy Juyoung Ok
July 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
“For us, everybody had somebody they—“Before the DMZ” by Cindy Juyoung Ok
Next on my summer reading list! @alisonbechdel.bsky.social 👏🏼
June 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Next on my summer reading list! @alisonbechdel.bsky.social 👏🏼
Channeling my rage into Korean American research today 😡
June 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Channeling my rage into Korean American research today 😡
Excited to be presenting my paper, “Satire and Complicity in Elaine Hsieh Chou’s Disorientation” tomorrow at the American Comparative Literature Association conference! Thank you to Shirl Yang & Jennifer Y Pan for organizing our seminar, “Complicit Figures, Complicit Forms.” 🙏🏼
May 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Excited to be presenting my paper, “Satire and Complicity in Elaine Hsieh Chou’s Disorientation” tomorrow at the American Comparative Literature Association conference! Thank you to Shirl Yang & Jennifer Y Pan for organizing our seminar, “Complicit Figures, Complicit Forms.” 🙏🏼
I’m co-organizing this proposed panel, “The Latinx-Asian Commons,” for @c19americanists.bsky.social 2026 conference with @ayendy.bsky.social! Please consider submitting, and please share widely! Due 8/1
May 28, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I’m co-organizing this proposed panel, “The Latinx-Asian Commons,” for @c19americanists.bsky.social 2026 conference with @ayendy.bsky.social! Please consider submitting, and please share widely! Due 8/1
My book is now out in paperback! You can get an additional 30% off with code PAPER30, too! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-romanti...
May 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
My book is now out in paperback! You can get an additional 30% off with code PAPER30, too! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-romanti...
Tenure looks good on you @ayendy.bsky.social! Celebrating you today and always 🥳🙏🏼❤️
May 4, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Tenure looks good on you @ayendy.bsky.social! Celebrating you today and always 🥳🙏🏼❤️
Happy birthday to my one and only @ayendy.bsky.social! Grateful for your continued health, support, brilliance, care, and fortitude. 🙏🏼❤️
March 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Happy birthday to my one and only @ayendy.bsky.social! Grateful for your continued health, support, brilliance, care, and fortitude. 🙏🏼❤️