Jee Hyun An’s major fields are American literature and African American Literature. Her research largely focuses on how racial politics is negotiated through and articulates with American/African American literature and culture. She is also interested in how the category of ‘race’ shapes and constructs ‘American’ national identity, and also in examining black literature and the African Diaspora in the context of the ongoing theoretical discussions within postcolonial theory. Her recent articles include, “The Birth of a Nation (The Clansman) as the Birth of a White Imperial America” (American Fiction 27.1, 2020), “A Strange Encounter: Postcoloniality in Korean Camptown Literature” (English Language and Literature 64.1, 2018), “Introduction to 20^th-century American Novels” 20^th-century American Novels (Sin-A-Sa, 2019). She has also published Korean translation of Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River (Si-Gong-Sa, 2016).