Seo-Young Chu

Seo-Young Chu (주서영) is a Korean American writer, a MeTooAcademia activist, and an Associate Professor of English at Queens College, CUNY. Her publications include “Excerpts from an Anti-Standardized ‘수능’: A Design-Fictional Approach to Korea,” "I, Discomfort Woman: A Fugue in F Minor," "Dear Stanford: You Must Reckon With Your History," “Welcome to the Vegas Pyongyang,” Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation, "Hwabyung Fragments," “Are Postmodernism and MeToo Incompatible?,” "Science Fiction and Postmemory Han in Contemporary Korean American Literature," "The DMZ Responds," "A Refuge for Jae-in Doe: Fugues in the Key of English Major," "M’어머니," “Dream of the Ambassador, 12/21/2016,” “The Lyric We,” “Two Koreas, in the Key of Emily Dickinson,” "Chogakpo Fantasia," "Dickinson and Mathematics," "Emoji Poetics," "I, Stereotype: Detained in the Uncanny Valley," "Dystopian Surface, Utopian Dream," “Free Indirect Suicide: An Unfinished Fugue In H Minor,” "Old Typewriter in a Field,” "Translator of Soliloquies," "Utopias Misplaced: The Cost of Outsourcing Dystopian Poetics to North Korea," "Hypnotic Ratiocination," "Survivor-Shaped Specters and Gaps," and “Imagining an Asian American Superhero of North Korean Origin.” Chu's creative nonfiction has been listed among “Notable Essays & Literary Nonfiction” in The Best American Essays 2020 and anthologized in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018, Best American Experimental Writing 2020, and Advanced Creative Nonfiction. Her work has been cited by Jia Tolentino in The New Yorker; by Amanda Gorman in Call Us What We Carry; by Mia You in Poetry; and by Cathy Park Hong in Minor Feelings. In 2017, 2018, and more recently, “A Refuge for Jae-in Doe” and Chu's advocacy for survivors have sparked dialogue about MeToo in academia, particularly at Stanford. Media attention has included articles in New York Magazine, KQED, The New Republic, The Washington Post, Literary Hub, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Stanford Daily, NBC News, and Inside Higher Ed. On Twitter: seoyoung_chu On TikTok: seoyoungjchu On Instagram/Threads: seoyoung.jennie.chu