At NCF, John Park teaches courses on Romanticism and Realism, eighteenth and nineteenth-century aesthetic theories, and modern Korean literature.
Courses
Year 1 Fall: 18th Century Aesthetics; Korean Literature
Year 1 Spring: 19th Century Aesthetics; Medical Humanities
Year 2 Fall: Romanticism; Aesthetics and Epistemology
Year 2 Spring: Realism; Aesthetics and Politics
Publication
Park’s book Prosaic Times: Time as Subject in Wordsworth, Richardson, Flaubert, and Melville published by Bloomsbury claims that the notable stylistic innovations of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that changed our understanding of literature closely bring narrative forms to being sheer extensions of time.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/prosaic-times-9798765108734/
Park has also written on literary theory and Hegelian philosophy in “Comparative Literature and Hegel’s Historical Thinking” in PMLA’s Special Theories and Methodologies Issue, “Why Philosophy” (March 2016), which was edited by Claudia Brodsky and includes articles by literary theorists such as Judith Butler, Fredric Jameson, and Hayden White. The relationship between Hegel and literature was also taken up in the book chapter “Timely Plot and Unplotted Time: Action and Experience Before and After Hegel” in Inventing Agency: Essays on the Literary and Philosophical Production of the Modern Subject (2017), edited by Claudia Brodsky, with essays by Marshall Brown, David Ferris, Karen Feldman, et al. Park also researches and teaches Korean novels. His latest article on literary realism and architecture is “Kim Namch’on’s Barley: Architecture of Loss and Life in Late Colonial Korea” in the 2022 issue of the Journal of Korean Studies.
Education
University of Michigan, B.A. Comparative Literature (2006)
Princeton University, Ph.D. Comparative Literature (2020)