Eunjung Kim (NHC Fellow, 2024–25)

Eunjung Kim, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and Disability Studies Program at Syracuse University. Eunjung Kim’s research and teaching interests include transnational feminist disability studies; kinship, vulnerability, and human/nonhuman boundaries; Korean cultural history of disability, gender, and sexuality and anti-violence movements; Asian women’s movements and arts; critical humanitarian communications and human rights; asexualities and queer theories. Her book Curative Violence: Rehabilitating Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Korea (Alison Piepmeier Book Prize, National Women’s Studies Association; James B. Palaise Prize, Association for Asian Studies) examines what the social and material investment in curing illnesses and disabilities tells us about the relationship between disability and Korean nationalism.

Selected Publications

• Kim, Eunjung. “Unbecoming Human: An Ethics of Objects.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 21, no. 2–3 (2015): 295–320.
• Kim, Eunjung. Curative Violence: Rehabilitating Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Korea. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017.
• Chen, Mel Y., Alison Kafer, Eunjung Kim, and Julie Avril Minich, eds. Crip Genealogies. Durham: Duke University Press, 2023.
• Kim, Eunjung. “Asexual Kinship: Capitalism, Reproduction, and an Imperiality of Asexuality.” In Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives, edited by KJ Cerankowski and Megan Milks, 305–21. London: Routledge, 2024.
• Kim, Eunjung. “Against Confinement: Degeneration, Mental Disability, and the Conditions of Nonviolence in The Vegetarian.” In Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea, edited by Michelle Cho and Jesook Song, 140–169. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2024.