Yoon Sun Yang

Yoon Sun Yang is an Associate Professor at Boston University in the Department of Korean & Comparative Literature and affiliated with Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies. She holds a PhD from the University of Chicago and has taught courses on Korean literature, comparative studies, and gender in East Asian cinema. Her research focuses on colonial Korean literature, transpacific cultural exchanges, and intersections of medicine/gender with literature.

Her major publications include From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men (2017), which won the James B. Palais Book Prize, and the edited Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean Literature (2020). Current projects involve translating early colonial Korean texts and studying transpacific migrant literature.

Her work has been supported by NEH and Suzy Newhouse Center fellowships. Teaching focuses include Korean literature surveys, comparative East Asian works, and gender-focused film studies.