Teaching

Jeonbuk National University: Undergraduate courses

Fall

Shakespeare

This course is designed for advanced undergraduate students. Considering that a majority of students at JBNU are L2 English learners, I usually assign two Shakespearean dramatic texts. I have taught plays such as Romeo and Juliet, Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, and The Tempest. I am currently in the process of revamping this course into Digital Shakespeare in order to incorporate more digital resources as well as data anlalysis methodologies.

Understanding British and American Drama

This 200-level course is always populated with not only English students but also students from diverse disciplines such as chemistry, agricultural business, life science, French, philosophy, political science and so forth. The major goal of this course is to help students understand basic elements of dramatic work and begin to develop their own literary interpretation. In fall 2022, my students read Susan Glaspell’s Trifles, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, and Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden under the theme of "Theater and the Law".

Spring

Contemporary British and American Drama

This course aims at exploring contemporary drama written in English with a specific thematic focus. In spring 2023, I selected two contemporary texts, Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey and Caryl Churchill's Top Girls, and the class revolved around the overarching theme of "working- class experiences in theater".

Jeonbuk National University: Graduate courses

Spring 2023

Shakespeare in a Digital World

This seminar was intended to introduce multiple approaches aided by digital sources to analyze Shakespeare’s plays. Students were asked to complete their own ePortfolio wherein they complied five micro-digital assignments, including a Commonplace Book project, an OED project, an EEBO-TCP project, a performance note, and an intertextuality project. The students completed these micro assignments while we discussed King Lear. And then they were promoted to utilize the approaches that they practiced through ePortfolio while reading Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, and Cymbeline.

Spring 2022

Shakespeare and Dramatic Genres

This course aimed to explore Shakespeare’s plays with a special focus on dramatic genres and mixed mode of writing. As Polonius’ notorious pretense about good actors in Hamlet implies, generic ambiguity was at stake in the early modern era. For this seminar, I assigned Romeo and Juliet, Henry IV Part I, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Winter's Tale, and The Tempest along with introductory materials about dramatic modes, playhouses, early modern society and culture.

Fall 2021

Modern Tragedy

The goal of this seminar was to closely read Raymond Williams’ Modern Tragedy and discuss the connection between an ordinary sense of tragedy and a literary form of tragedy. For this course, I chose a variety of modern and post-war tragedies written by Henrik Ibsen, Luigi Pirandello, Bertolt Brecht, Jean-Paul Sartre, Samuel Beckett, Tennessee Williams, Caryl Churchill, Martin McDonagh, and Yaël Farber.

Spring 2021

Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama

This seminar was designed to introduce a diverse range of Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic works. During the semester, my graduate students read not only Shakespeare but also Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker, and Elizabeth Cary.

Fall 2020

Revenge Tragedy

This course examined revenge tragedy, an incredibly popular genre in the early modern period. The selected texts included Seneca's Thyestes, Francis Bacon's "Of Revenge", Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, The Rape of Lucrece, Hamlet, and Othello, as well as Thomas Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy.

University at Buffalo, SUNY

UB Curriculum Capstone
UB Seminar
Writing and Rhetoric
Third-Year First-Semester Korean
World Literature (online)
Writing 1 & Writing 2