# Ju Yon Kim Patsy Takemoto Mink Professor of English, Harvard College Professor Director of Graduate Studies ![kim](/sites/g/files/omnuum1611/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/english/files/kim.png?itok=tnepJ9XY) location\_on She/her/hersOffice: Barker 152 smartphone [617-496-2211](tel:617-496-2211) email Mondays 2:30-4:30pm Education: B.A., Yale University (2002) Ph.D., Stanford University (2011) Interests: Asian American literature; modern and contemporary theater; performance studies. Selected Works: “Between Paper and Performance: Suspicion, Race, and Casting in The Piano Teacher,” *Modern Drama* 63.2 (Summer 2020): 127-153. (\*Winner of Modern Drama’s 2020 Outstanding Article Award); “Performance Theory and Asian American Literature and Culture,” in *The Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture*, eds. Josephine Lee et. al; “Theater and Performing Arts in Korean America,” in *Companion to Korean American Studies*, eds. Rachael Joo and Shelley Lee; “In the Space Made from Separation: Korean American Performances of North Korea in Revision,” *Journal of Asian American Studies* (October 2017); “Theater/Duty,” Gloss for “Theater/Duty,” Gloss for “TALES,” *Imagined Theatres: Writings for a Theoretical Stage*, ed. Daniel Sack, April 2017; “The Narrator as Dubious Witness: Adapting ‘And the Soul Shall Dance’ for the Stage,” *Theatre Survey* 57.2 (May 2016), special section on East West Players; *The Racial Mundane: Asian American Performance and the Embodied Everyday,* New York University Press, May 2015 (winner of the 2016 Lois P. Rudnick Award from the New England American Studies Association); “When Marco Leaves the Building: Intercultural Performances and Other Audiences,” *Modernism/modernity* 19.4 (November 2012); “Across a Different Table: Strange and Familiar Encounters in Asian American Cinema,” *Journal of Transnational American Studies* 4.1 (Summer 2012); “The Difference a Smile Can Make: Interracial Conflict and Cross-Racial Performance in *Kimchee and Chitlins*,” *Modern Drama* 53.4 (Winter 2010); “Trying on *The Yellow Jacket*: Performing Chinese Exclusion and Assimilation,” *Theatre Journal* 62.1 (March 2010). I welcome conversation with BIPOC, BLGTQ, and first-generation students. - ## Person Categories [Administration](/person-categories/administration) - ## Role [Administration](/role/staff)