Cohort Year:
2019
Research Interests:
Comparative Modernisms, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and its Writers, Visual Art.
Education:
B.A., Yonsei University, 2015; M.A., The University of Chicago, 2017
Yun Ha Kim is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the Germanic Studies department at the University of Chicago. Her dissertation, “Eyes Wide Shut: the Poetics of Not Knowing in Adalbert Stifter, Rainer Maria Rilke, and W.G. Sebald,” focuses on three instances of modernism in which poetic truth is pursued through the repression of knowledge. She enjoys reading 20th century writers, especially in the Germanic and East Asian tradition, and frequently works at the crossings of literature, visual arts, and history.