Youngjoo Son specializes in twentieth-century English literature. She is interested in fiction from late-nineteenth to contemporary, particularly women’s writing and postcolonial literature, and modernist Bildungsroman studies.  Her recent research focuses on the question of affect in modernist literature. Her book, Here and Now: The Politics of Social Space in D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, was published by Routledge in 2006. Her recent publications include “’Rachel was sitting in her room doing absolutely nothing’: Rereading Idleness in Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out”(Feminist Studies in English Literature, no. 26.2), “Why Matter Matters: Things and Beings in D. H. Lawrence” that appeared in a book titled, D. H. Lawrence: New Theoretical Perspectives and Cultural Translation (2016), and “Thinking is my fighting: Thinking, Thing, and Language in Virginia Woolf” (Feminist Studies in English Literature, no. 22.2, 2014). She translated D.H.Lawrence’s Women in Love into Korean.