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Dr Jodie Kim

Positions held:
  • Lecturer, Department of English, Theatre and Creative Writing
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Room 212, 39-47 Gordon Square

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  • Overview

    Overview

    Biography

    Jodie Kim was born in Korea and grew up in the American South. She has a PhD in the New Southern Gothic and her research focuses on the intersection of racial, gendered, and political violence and contemporary literature. Jodie writes as SJ Kim. Her writing has appeared in Oxford American, Wasafiri, and The Hanok Review among other publications. Jodie was appointed to Birkbeck in 2018. 

    Highlights

    Qualifications

    • PhD, University of Manchester, 2016
    • MA, University of Manchester, 2011
    • BA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010

    Honours and awards

    • Fellow, Higher Education Academy, November 2021
  • Research

    Research

    Research interests

    • Race
    • Gender
    • Sexuality
    • Violence
    • Southern Gothic
  • Supervision and teaching

    Supervision and teaching

    Supervision

    Supervisions within Birkbeck:
    3

    Jodie welcomes enquiries from potential doctoral students committed to studying race, gender, and sexuality. She is especially interested in the themes of horror, violence, and the occult, and the forms of experimental literature, hybrid writing, and creative nonfiction. Prospective students should submit a proposal, a sample of writing, and a working bibliography.

    Current doctoral researchers

    • NATALIE MARLOW
      Nature of supervision:
      Joint Principal Supervisor, onwards
      Title of thesis:
      Dark Currents: a creative-critical exploration of the written waterscapes of the Midlands.How might the waterscapes of the Midlands be read in terms of cultural and environmental interrelatedness?
    • TATUM ANDERSON
      Nature of supervision:
      Joint Principal Supervisor, onwards

    Teaching

    Jodie teaches primarily on the BA and MA in Creative Writing.

    Teaching modules

    • The Life of the Writer (AREN038H5)
    • Fiction Workshop: The Contemporary Novel (AREN139S6)
    • Writing and Reading Seminar (ENHU036S7)
  • Publications

    Publications

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