Joey S. Kim (she/her)
@joeykim.bsky.social
Professor, poet, scholar, parent
Work on global 19th c. lit, romanticism, Asian American lit, K-culture 🇰🇷, and creative writing
Books: Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation, Body Facts: Poems
www.joeyskim.com
Work on global 19th c. lit, romanticism, Asian American lit, K-culture 🇰🇷, and creative writing
Books: Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation, Body Facts: Poems
www.joeyskim.com
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CALL FOR PITCHES
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.
We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.
Details below!
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.
We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.
Details below!
February 9, 2026 at 1:56 PM
CALL FOR PITCHES
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.
We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.
Details below!
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.
We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.
Details below!
✨ Excited to teach @lenakt.bsky.social today in my poetry workshop ✨ 🇵🇸
February 3, 2026 at 2:28 PM
✨ Excited to teach @lenakt.bsky.social today in my poetry workshop ✨ 🇵🇸
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By the brilliant Michelle Huang!
In "Racial Beings," Michelle N. Huang @nancyhelicopter.bsky.social brings a feminist new materialist lens to bear on contemporary Asian American literature’s innovative play with discourses of science and technology. #AsianAmericanStudies Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/eWFhHKY
January 8, 2026 at 7:01 PM
By the brilliant Michelle Huang!
Thanks, dear!!
February 1, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Thanks, dear!!
Excited to announce that I was awarded an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for my poetry! oac.ohio.gov/home/news-an...
77 Ohio Artists Approved for Individual Excellence Awards
$375,000 Awarded Across Seven Disciplines
oac.ohio.gov
February 1, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Excited to announce that I was awarded an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for my poetry! oac.ohio.gov/home/news-an...
“I begin here, with this, because despite how it reads, I loved my father…I begin with this as an attempt to bear witness to the shadows of our suffering, and, most importantly, the love that shaped my anger.” Happy pub day to @ayendy.bsky.social!
January 31, 2026 at 7:09 PM
“I begin here, with this, because despite how it reads, I loved my father…I begin with this as an attempt to bear witness to the shadows of our suffering, and, most importantly, the love that shaped my anger.” Happy pub day to @ayendy.bsky.social!
🤩 so excited to dive into this, @zugenia.bsky.social! 👏🏼
January 30, 2026 at 1:10 AM
🤩 so excited to dive into this, @zugenia.bsky.social! 👏🏼
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January 24, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Deadline extended to 1/26!
Check out our 3 CFP's for @the-ala.bsky.social 2026 conference! We have panels on model minority discourse, materiality, and new directions in Asian American literary studies! Due 1/22/26: caals.org/archives/1622
CAALS CFPs for ALA 2026
caals.org
January 23, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Deadline extended to 1/26!
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For your holiday shopping pleasure: A FUNNY THING is available in paperback, and you can get 20% off with the code ENGLITR26
Go get her!
Go get her!
A Funny Thing | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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December 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
For your holiday shopping pleasure: A FUNNY THING is available in paperback, and you can get 20% off with the code ENGLITR26
Go get her!
Go get her!
Oh, wow! Thank you so much, Eugenia!!!! Your review led to me being shortlisted for the Marilyn Gaull book award, and I’m very very grateful to you!! 😊🙏🏼
January 17, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Oh, wow! Thank you so much, Eugenia!!!! Your review led to me being shortlisted for the Marilyn Gaull book award, and I’m very very grateful to you!! 😊🙏🏼
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My review of @joeykim.bsky.social's wonderful book ROMANTICISM AND THE POETICS OF ORIENTATION is now out in The Wordsworth Circle from @chicagojournals.bsky.social. Read it here! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Joey S. Kim, Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. x+182 pp. US$24.95. | The Wordsworth Circle: Vol 56, No 3
www.journals.uchicago.edu
January 16, 2026 at 8:42 PM
My review of @joeykim.bsky.social's wonderful book ROMANTICISM AND THE POETICS OF ORIENTATION is now out in The Wordsworth Circle from @chicagojournals.bsky.social. Read it here! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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✨️Job Alert✨️ College Lecturer in English: Eighteenth-Century English Literature
📍King's College, University of Cambridge
📝Full-time, fixed-term. Closing date 19 January ('candidates are encouraged to submit applications as soon as possible').
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQA485/c...
📍King's College, University of Cambridge
📝Full-time, fixed-term. Closing date 19 January ('candidates are encouraged to submit applications as soon as possible').
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQA485/c...
College Lecturer in English; Eighteenth-century English literature at King's College, Cambridge
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a College Lecturer in English; Eighteenth-century English literature on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk
January 7, 2026 at 8:21 AM
✨️Job Alert✨️ College Lecturer in English: Eighteenth-Century English Literature
📍King's College, University of Cambridge
📝Full-time, fixed-term. Closing date 19 January ('candidates are encouraged to submit applications as soon as possible').
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQA485/c...
📍King's College, University of Cambridge
📝Full-time, fixed-term. Closing date 19 January ('candidates are encouraged to submit applications as soon as possible').
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQA485/c...
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🌲'Passing through [pine and fir groves], I have been struck with a mystic kind of reverence', Wollstonecraft, 'Letters from Norway'🌲
Excited to have my article on 'Shelley's Palimpsestic Pines', included in the 'British Romanticism and Europe' special issue of ERR 🍃 doi.org/10.1080/1050...
Excited to have my article on 'Shelley's Palimpsestic Pines', included in the 'British Romanticism and Europe' special issue of ERR 🍃 doi.org/10.1080/1050...
Norwegian Wood: P. B. Shelley’s Palimpsestic Pines
This essay explores the appearance of a distinctively Northern European tree, the pine, in Shelley’s works between 1814 and 1817. This period corresponds with the Shelleys’ continental travels and ...
doi.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:42 AM
🌲'Passing through [pine and fir groves], I have been struck with a mystic kind of reverence', Wollstonecraft, 'Letters from Norway'🌲
Excited to have my article on 'Shelley's Palimpsestic Pines', included in the 'British Romanticism and Europe' special issue of ERR 🍃 doi.org/10.1080/1050...
Excited to have my article on 'Shelley's Palimpsestic Pines', included in the 'British Romanticism and Europe' special issue of ERR 🍃 doi.org/10.1080/1050...
“My project analyzes 3 letters written by an unnamed Korean man in 1896. These letters recount the author’s travels through Europe & China & are written in an intimate, 1st-person narrative voice. They offer a rare Anglophone account of 19th. c. Korean mobility & self-representation.” 🤞for funding!
December 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
“My project analyzes 3 letters written by an unnamed Korean man in 1896. These letters recount the author’s travels through Europe & China & are written in an intimate, 1st-person narrative voice. They offer a rare Anglophone account of 19th. c. Korean mobility & self-representation.” 🤞for funding!
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Today is the 1-yr anniversary of my book's publication date! *Abolition Time* was released by @uminnpress.bsky.social on Dec 10, 2024 ✨
If you'd like to write a review of the book and want to know how to acquire a copy, feel free to reach out! I may be able to point you to a journal!
Also:
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If you'd like to write a review of the book and want to know how to acquire a copy, feel free to reach out! I may be able to point you to a journal!
Also:
(1/3)
December 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Today is the 1-yr anniversary of my book's publication date! *Abolition Time* was released by @uminnpress.bsky.social on Dec 10, 2024 ✨
If you'd like to write a review of the book and want to know how to acquire a copy, feel free to reach out! I may be able to point you to a journal!
Also:
(1/3)
If you'd like to write a review of the book and want to know how to acquire a copy, feel free to reach out! I may be able to point you to a journal!
Also:
(1/3)
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Calling scholars of Asian American literature 📚
CFP for three #ALA2026 panels on model minority discourse, science & materialty, & new directions in the field. Abstracts due Jan 22, 2026. DM for more info! @the-ala.bsky.social
CFP for three #ALA2026 panels on model minority discourse, science & materialty, & new directions in the field. Abstracts due Jan 22, 2026. DM for more info! @the-ala.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Calling scholars of Asian American literature 📚
CFP for three #ALA2026 panels on model minority discourse, science & materialty, & new directions in the field. Abstracts due Jan 22, 2026. DM for more info! @the-ala.bsky.social
CFP for three #ALA2026 panels on model minority discourse, science & materialty, & new directions in the field. Abstracts due Jan 22, 2026. DM for more info! @the-ala.bsky.social
Love reading scholarship and learning new ways to say relevant things: "emotionally incontinent" men 😂✔️
December 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Love reading scholarship and learning new ways to say relevant things: "emotionally incontinent" men 😂✔️
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Today marks one year since the Dec. 3, 2024 martial law declaration that rocked South Korea and still reverberates today. What’s on my mind today is the grit of South Koreans who rushed to the National Assembly that night, in freezing weather, to demand a return to democratic government.
December 3, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Today marks one year since the Dec. 3, 2024 martial law declaration that rocked South Korea and still reverberates today. What’s on my mind today is the grit of South Koreans who rushed to the National Assembly that night, in freezing weather, to demand a return to democratic government.
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I’m teaching a graduate class this spring on legal and literary personhood. NYC consortial students welcome! Let me know if you have questions.
December 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I’m teaching a graduate class this spring on legal and literary personhood. NYC consortial students welcome! Let me know if you have questions.
Haha I didn’t even notice the synergy! 💅
December 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Haha I didn’t even notice the synergy! 💅
Exciting mail day! Can’t wait to dive into this 💎 by @johannawinant.bsky.social and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social! #closereading
December 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Exciting mail day! Can’t wait to dive into this 💎 by @johannawinant.bsky.social and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social! #closereading
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the multi-year lack of a truly functional manuscripts catalog at the BL is finally over!!!!
Latest update from @britishlibrary.bsky.social says they are launching a new version of their main catalogue on Monday 8 December and around that time also launch an interim version of their Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Hooray!
www.bl.uk/stories/news...
www.bl.uk/stories/news...
Restoring our services – November 2025 update
In the coming weeks and months we will be restoring a number of key functions.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
the multi-year lack of a truly functional manuscripts catalog at the BL is finally over!!!!