Elaine H. Kim, Professor

Ethnic Studies Department, Asian American Studies

Office: 594 Barrows
Email: ehkim@berkeley.edu
Phone: 642-9132
Office hours: Tuesdays 2-4 p.m. 596 Barrows

Education

Ph.D., UC Berkeley
M.A., Columbia University
B.A., University of Pennsylvania

Research interests

Asian American literary and cultural studies, Korean American Studies, Asian and Asian American Feminist Studies

Courses

• AAS 123: Korean American and Korean Diaspora History
• AAS 172: Asian American Literature
• AAS 171: Asian American Cinema
• AAS 183: Korean American Cultural Studies
• ES 200: Texts and Issues
• ES 301: Pedagogy
• ES 302: Professional Development
• ES 250: Asian American Literary and Cultural Studies

Courses in 2011-12

• AAS 171: Asian American Cinema
• ES 250: Asian American Literary and Cultural Studies
• AAS 123: Korean American and Korean Diaspora  History

Selected publications

• Writer and director, Slaying the Dragon Reloaded: Asian Women in Hollywood and Beyond, 2011
• Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations On Asian American Art (with Margo Machida and Sharon Mizota), Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003 (Association for Asian American Studies Book Award in Cultural Studies, 2004)
• InvASIAN: Asian Sisters Represent, A Collection of Writings for Asian and Pacific American Teenaged Girls, San Francisco Study Center/Asian Women United of California, 2003
• Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writing, with Laura Hyun Yi Kang, Philadelphia: Temple University Press 2003
• Executive Producer, Labor Women, 2002
• Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism (co-edited with Chungmoo Choi), New York: Routledge, 1998
• Making More Waves: New Writing By Asian American Women (co-edited with Lilia V. Villanueva), Boston: Beacon Press, 1997: 184-194
• “new formations, new questions: asian american studies”  (special issue co-edited with Lisa M. Lowe), positions: east asia cultures critique 5, no. 2 (fall 1997)
• East to America: Korean American Life Stories (co-edited with Eui-Young Yu), New York: The New Press, 1996
• Writing Self, Writing Nation: A Collection of Essays on DICTEE by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (co-author with Laura Hyun Yi Kang, Lisa M. Lowe, and Shelley Sunn Wong),  Berkeley: Third Woman Press, 1994
• Making Waves: Writings By and About Asian American Women (co-edited with Asian Women United of California), Boston: Beacon Press, 1989
• Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, l982; translated into Japanese 2002
• Co-Producer, Sa-i-gu: From Korean Women’s Perspectives, 1992
• Associate Producer, Slaying the Dragon: Asian Women in U.S. Television and Film, 1988

Honors & Awards

• San Francisco Asian Pacific American Heritage Lifetime Achievement Award, 2012
• Association for Asian American Studies Lifetime Achievement Award, 2011
• Organization of American Historians -Japan Association of American Studies Short Term Residency, Waseda University, June 2008
• Featured Writer, Berkeley Writers at Work, UC Berkeley, 18 October 2006
• Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Award for Excellence in Education, California State Assembly, May 2006
• Association for Asian American Studies Book Award in Cultural Studies, 2004
• Honorary Doctorate of Laws, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, May 2004
• "A.100: the 100 most influential Asian Americans of the past decade," A. Magazine, 1999
• Global Korea Award, 1998
• Hall of Outstanding Women at Cal, 1995
• Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters, University of Massachusetts, Boston, 1995
• "Profiles in Excellence," KGO-TV, June 27, 1993 and December 26, 1993
• Jessie Bernard Wise Woman Award, Center for Women Policy Studies, 1991
• Woman Warrior Award, Pacific Asian Women’s Bay Area Coalition, 1987
• Honorary Member, Golden Key National Honor Society, 1987
• Leadership Award, Second Annual Women's Leadership Conference, San Francisco Women's Center, 1983