Seo-Young Chu

Seo-Young Jennie Chu
Born(1978-02-14)February 14, 1978
Virginia
OccupationAcademic, writer, artist, poet, #MeToo activist, Associate Professor
CitizenshipU.S.
Alma mater2007 – PhD in English, Harvard University
Subjectaesthetics, Asian American literature, autotheory, cognitively estranging referents, death, digital writing, disability, dreams, Englishes, the Korean DMZ, Emily Dickinson, globalization, the gothic, han, Korea, mental illness, poetry, Postmemory Han, rape culture, robots, science fiction, sexual violence, suicide, theory, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, trauma, the uncanny valley
Literary movementautotheory, #MeToo, feminism, experimental writing, speculative memoir
Notable worksA Refuge for Jae-In Doe, Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep?
The native form of this personal name is Chu Seo-Young. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
In this Korean name, the family name is Chu.

Seo-Young Chu (Korean: 주서영; born February 14, 1978) is a queer Korean American scholar, feminist, poet, #MeToo activist, and associate professor of English at Queens College, CUNY.[1][2][3][4][5] She is the author of A Refuge for Jae-in Doe[6][7] and Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation.[8][9]

Chu is best known for her scholarship on science fiction,[10] her writing on the Koreas,[11][12][13] her work on postmemory han,[14] her work on the uncanny valley,[15] her creative nonfiction and lyric poems exploring mental illness and sexual violence,[9][7][16] and her work as an activist against rape culture on college campuses.[17][18][19] She was one of the earliest #MeTooAcademia advocates, first speaking out in 2017, and remains active in the movement.[17][19][20][21][22][23] She frequently campaigns for universities and colleges to create more robust sexual harassment policies, and enforce them.[24][17][25] She also regularly speaks out on behalf of sexual assault victims in academia, encouraging universities to take accusations seriously, respond with compassion, and provide help to victims.[26][21][27][19][4] She has also spoken out about sexual violence in Asian Americans.[28][29][30]

  1. ^ "Seo-Young Chu". Queens College Department of English.
  2. ^ "Former Grad Students: Our Professors Raped Us". KQED. December 7, 2017.
  3. ^ Hsu, Irene; Stone, Rachel (November 30, 2017). ""A Professor Is Kind of Like a Priest"". The New Republic.
  4. ^ a b Anderson, Nick (May 10, 2018). "Academia's #MeToo moment: Women accuse professors of sexual misconduct". The Washington Post.
  5. ^ Ed, Op (December 5, 2017). "An open letter to Stanford on sexual harassment in academia".
  6. ^ Lê, Aimée (2018-09-03). "Review: A Refuge for Jae-In Doe: Fugues in the Key of English Major by Seo-Young Chu". Neon Books. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
  7. ^ a b Chu, Seo-Young (2017-11-01). "A Refuge for Jae-in Doe: Fugues in the Key of English Major". Publications and Research.
  8. ^ Chu, Seo-Young (2010). Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep?. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-05517-9.
  9. ^ a b "Seo-Young Chu – Humanities Commons". Retrieved 2023-11-27.
  10. ^ Chu, Seo-Young (2011-01-15). Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep?: A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-05517-9.
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  12. ^ Chu, Seo-Young (2018-01-01). "The DMZ Responds". Publications and Research.
  13. ^ Chu, Seo-Young (2021). "Imagining an Asian American Superhero of North Korean Origin: A Design Fiction". Humanities Commons.
  14. ^ Chu, Seo-Young (2008). "Science Fiction and Postmemory Han in Contemporary Korean American Literature". MELUS. 33 (4): 97–121. doi:10.1093/melus/33.4.97. ISSN 0163-755X. JSTOR 20343509.
  15. ^ Chu, Seo-Young (2015-04-17), "5. I, Stereotype: Detained in the Uncanny Valley", Techno-Orientalism, Rutgers University Press, pp. 76–88, doi:10.36019/9780813570655-007, ISBN 978-0-8135-7065-5, retrieved 2023-11-27
  16. ^ Chu, Seo-Young (2019-01-01). ""Free Indirect Suicide: An Unfinished Fugue in H Minor"". Publications and Research.
  17. ^ a b c "From the Community | Dear Stanford: You must reckon with your history of sexual violence". 2022-07-12. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
  18. ^ Barrera, Magdalena L.; Lee, Shelley; Celine Parreñas Shimizu (2018-03-16). "Moving Forward by Looking Back: Feminist Scholars in Solidarity with Seo-Young Chu". Ms. Magazine. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
  19. ^ a b c Tong, Julia (2022-02-11). "Three graduate students sue Harvard, alleging sexual abuse from professor". AsAmNews. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
  20. ^ X (formerly Twitter) https://twitter.com/seoyoung_chu/status/1538848196788731904. Retrieved 2023-11-27. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  21. ^ a b "Stanford students call for firing of professor Vincent Barletta". 2022-10-27. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
  22. ^ "Facing criticism for victim blaming, Stanford revises sexual harassment guidelines webpage, but criticism persists". 2020-05-18. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
  23. ^ Chu, Seo-Young. "Survivor-Shaped Specters and Gaps".
  24. ^ "Behind the Fliegelman sexual misconduct investigation". The Stanford Daily. 2017-12-02. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
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  26. ^ Wang, Kyle (2019-06-14). "Stanford One Year After #MeToo: How Stanford's Response Failed Victims of Sexual Assault". Stanford Politics. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
  27. ^ "How #MeToo Helped Seo-Young Chu Name Her Harasser", Facebook, retrieved 2023-11-27[unreliable source?]
  28. ^ "Asian Americans are no longer pop culture sidekicks — they're defining the mainstream". NBC News. 2023-05-12. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
  29. ^ "Seo-Young Chu". KoreanAmericanStory.org. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
  30. ^ Dinh, Thaomi Michelle. "You Are Invited: A Conversation on Sexual Violence in Asian America".