Ji Nang Kim

Ji Nang Kim is a Lecturer in the Department of English at The University of Texas at Arlington. Her research focuses on transnational Asian literature and culture, postcolonial aesthetics, and gender/body studies. She holds a PhD in English from Texas A&M University (2015) and dual BA/MAs in English and French from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.

Research interests include transnational spectrality, posthumanism, and the intersection of trauma studies with visual arts. Her current book project, Bleak Waves, examines historical trauma in Korean/Korean American literature. She has published in Critical Insights and Korean Diaspora Literature, and her poetry explores Korean diasporic identity.

Awards include the Mijumunhak New Writers’ Prize (2023) and Sisanmaek Poetry Award (2024). She teaches courses on world literature, AI ethics, and composition, emphasizing interdisciplinary and inquiry-based methods. She serves as Graduate Coordinator in the English Department and volunteers with Viola's House in Dallas.