Woosung Kang specializes in Early Modern American Literature and Critical Theories. His research interest includes the making of modern American discourse and writing, the politics of modern critical theories, film theories, and East Asian cinemas. He is also interested in the supplementary relationship between philosophy and literature, the politics of psychoanalysis, and the idea of national cinema in the East Asian cultural connection. He is the author of Freud Seminar (Literary Community, 2019) and The Birth of a Style: Emerson and the Writing of the Moment in the American Renaissance (SNU Press, 2003), translated Slavoj Žižek’s Pandemic! (Book House, 2020) and Avital Ronell’s Stupidity (Literary Community, 2015) into Korean. His recent publications include “Virus-ex-machina and Political Revolution” (Journal of English Language and Literature, Vol. 66. No. 2, 2020), “Bartleby and the Abyss of Potentiality” (Concentric, Vol 46. No. 2. 2020), “I Would Prefer Not Not-to: Critical Theory after Bartleby” (Interventions, May, 2020), “Why They Prefer Bartleby? Ethics of Theory in Political Critique” (Forum for World Literature Studies, Vol 11. No. 3. 2019), and “Anthropocentrism and Otherization in the Era of Artificial Intelligence” (Comparative Literature, Vol 72. No. 1. 2017).