Dr Jodie Kim

Overview

Biography

Jodie Kim was born in Korea and grew up in the American south. Jodie has a PhD in the new southern gothic. Her research focuses on the intersection of racial, gendered, and political violence and literature. Beyond the university, she has taught creative writing to schoolchildren of diverse backgrounds, survivors of domestic violence and rape, and dementia patients. Her work has been published and is forthcoming in Tarpaulin Sky Magazine, New Writing, Juked, and Wasafiri. Jodie was appointed to Birkbeck in 2018. 

Highlights

• 'Dear Manchester Chinatown'

Qualifications

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

Research

Research interests

• Race
• Gender
• Sexuality
• Violence
• Southern Gothic

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, Jan 2019 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, Oct 2020 onwards

• VALENTINE CARTER

  Nature of supervision:

  Joint Principal Supervisor, Sep 2019 onwards

Teaching

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

Teaching modules

• Creative Non-fiction (AREN100S5)
• Fiction Workshop: The Contemporary Novel (AREN139S6)
• Creative Writing Summer Term Lecture Series (AREN227Z7)
• Writing and Reading Seminar (ENHU036S7)
• Writing Workshop (ENHU039S7)

Publications