Dr. Jang Wook Huh is an associate professor of English at Seoul National University. He specializes in African American and comparative literature, with an emphasis on the circulation of Blackness in a transpacific context. He is currently completing a book (under contract with Columbia University Press) on the literary and cultural connections between Black liberation struggles in the United States and anticolonial movements in Korea during the Japanese and American occupations. 

 

Professor Huh’s work has appeared in American Quarterly, Comparative Literature, The Journal of Korean Studies, The Langston Hughes Review, Literature Compass, and other venues. His essay “The Harlem Renaissance in Translation” (2021) received the 2022 Constance M. Rourke Prize, which is annually awarded by the American Studies Association for “the best article published in American Quarterly.” Professor Huh’s research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies (2013 and 2023), the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, the Council on Library and Information Resources, and the Fulbright Program, among others. 

 

Prior to arriving at Seoul National University in 2024, Professor Huh taught in the Department of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington and in the Department of English at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.