Jungha Kim specializes in twentieth-century American literature, migration/diaspora literature, trauma studies, and psychoanalysis. Her research focus is on the intersection (and interpenetration) of the twentieth century U.S.-Asia history and the issues of injury, memory, migration/diaspora. Her current project investigates the way terrorism and neoliberalism revisit and revise the relationship between trauma and aesthetics. Her publications in Korean include “Trauma and Affect” (Criticism and Theory 19.2, 2014), “Senses of Still Life in Don DeLillo’s 9/11 Fiction” (American Fiction 27.1, 2020), “Chang-rae Lee and Diasporic Romance” (American Studies 42.1, 2019); publications in English include “I’m still at war with myself”: Transnational adoption and endless labor in Jane Jeong Trenka’s Fugitive Visions” (Amerasia journal 40.3, 2014), “The Affects and Ethics of the Gift in Aimee Phan’s We Should Never Meet” (Contemporary Literature 57.1, 2016), “Animated Plastic and Material Eco-Cosmopolitanism in Through the Arc of the Rain Forest” in The Limits of Cosmopolitanism (Routledge 2019)