Dr Jodie Kim
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Reader in Creative WritingDirector of Graduate Studies, Warwick Writing ProgrammeTeaching Focus: Contemporary Literature & Literary Theory Email: Jodie.Kim@warwick.ac.uk Jodie Kim was born in Korea and raised in the American South. Her PhD was on reading the work of Yusef Komunyakaa as the New Southern Gothic, and her research examines the intersection of contemporary literature and racial, gendered, and political violence. Jodie writes as SJ Kim. She is the author of This Part Is Silent Link opens in a new window(W.W. Norton, 2024; And Other Stories, 2025), a memoir in essays longlisted for the American Library Association's Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and the Gordon Burn Prize. Her writing has appeared in McSweeney's, Oxford American, and Wasafiri among other publications, and has been nominated for the Pushcart PrizeLink opens in a new window. Her poetry and translation study <엄마 없는 집에> received the 2021 Specimen Prize. Jodie is currently not accepting new PhD proposals. She is, however, happy to offer general advice on doctoral study in creative writing to first-generation applicants, whether those who are the first in their families to enter higher education or those who have come to the UK as immigrants. She welcomes enquiries from writers committed to studying race, gender, and sexuality. She is especially interested in experimental and hybrid forms of writing. |
