Lecture: Youngmin Kim, "Transnationalism and the Poetics of 'Scaling' in World Literature"

The poetics of scaling in world literature based upon the scale of transcultural/ transnational phenomenon over the cartographic scale will provide the lenses for the analytic scale of rereading the modern and contemporary poetic texts as well as for the topographical fluid intermappings of the poetic globe. The untranslatability across the East/West divide as well as all sorts of divide will be left open by this upscale/downscale way of looking at the texts of world literature.

Youngmin Kim has been teaching literatures in English and critical theory at the Department of English, Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea, since 1991. He was Visiting Professor at Cornell University and Sapporo Gakuin University in Japan, and the Visiting Scholar at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. He had served as President of the William Butler Yeats Society of Korea. He gave lectures and seminars at Yeats International Summer School. He was President of The Korean Society of Jacques Lacan & Contemporary Psychoanalysis and of the ELLAK (English Language and Literature of Korea), and now the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of English Language and Literature. He wrote books and articles on Yeats, Heaney, and Irish/Canadian/English/American poetry. His current interest is transnationalism and cultural translation, world poetries in English, and interdisciplinary border-crossing humanities.