Elaine H. Kim, Professor
Office: 594 Barrows
Email: ehkim@berkeley.edu
Phone: 642-9132
Office hours: TBA
Education
Ph.D., Social Foundations of Education, UC BerkeleyM.A. English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Graduate Studies, English, UC Berkeley
B.A. English and American Literature, University of Pennsylvania
Research interests
Asian American literary and cultural studies, Korean American Studies, Asian and Asian American Feminist StudiesCourses
AAS 172: Asian American LiteratureAAS 171: Asian American Cinema
AAS 177: Asian American Visual Art
AAS 183: Korean American Studies
ES 200: Texts and Issues
ES 301: Pedagogy
Courses in 2009-10
AAS 171: Asian American Cinema
ES 301: Pedagogy
AAS 183: Korean American Studies
Selected publications
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.
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.
Executive Producer, Labor Women, 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
Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in Cultural Studies, 2004Honorary 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
Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters, University of Massachusetts, Boston, 1995
Hall of Outstanding Women at Cal, 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, l983