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Ksenia Chizhova is an Associate Professor of Korean Literature in the Department of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. She is affiliated with the Behrman Faculty Fellows and the Humanities Council. Her research focuses on vernacular Korean writing, calligraphy, gender studies, and kinship in Korean history. She holds a Ph.D. in Literature and Cultural History of Premodern Korea from Columbia University, following a postdoctoral fellowship at the Korea Institute of Australian National University.
Chizhova’s work bridges literary and cultural studies, examining topics such as elite women’s roles in manuscript culture, the evolution of Korean script aesthetics, and gender politics in North Korean art. Her book *Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea* (2023) won the Hong Yung Lee Book Award and an Honorable Mention for the James Palais Book Prize. Her current research explores the media history of the Korean script across centuries.
She teaches courses on Korean literature, cultural criticism, and gender studies, including *Korean Women: Postmodern to Premodern* and *Strange Korean Families*. Her editorial work includes co-editing a special issue of the *Journal of Korean Studies* on textual materiality in Korea.
- Education: Ph.D., Columbia University (2015)
- Awards: Hong Yung Lee Book Award (2023), James Palais Book Prize Honorable Mention (2023)
- Teaching: Courses on Korean literature, cultural theory, and gender studies at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
