Mee-Ju Ro

Mee-Ju Ro is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago, teaching since 2022. She is affiliated with the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture.

Her academic credentials include a PhD from Cornell University (2018).

Her research focuses on:

• Asian American literatures
• Transpacific literatures
• Contemporary Korean literatures
• Translation theory
• Women’s writing
• Race and gender
• Trauma theory
• Performance studies

Her book project Entangled Testimonies uses quantum entanglement as a metaphor to reconceptualize testimony as relational. She conducted fieldwork in Seoul with Korean "comfort women" at the House of Sharing.

Her publications, such as the 2016 article on translation in Shin Kyung-Sook's novel and the short story "seoriseori", illustrate her focus on multilingual narratives and the entanglement of trauma, translation, and women's voices across the Pacific.