Hyonjin Kim specializes in medieval English and European literature. His research focuses on the performance and construction of pre/proto-modern subjectivities and identities in medieval literature and culture, especially in the medieval romance. He is also interested in modern and contemporary popular literature classified as romance and fantasy, and in the transnational cultural projects of late capitalist society proliferating the elements of romance and fantasy in diverse forms of representation, on media, and in real life. His book, The Knight without the Sword: A Social Landscape of Malorian Chivalry, was published by Boydell & Brewer in 2000. His publications include “Arthurian Romance and the Paradoxes of Courtly Love” (In/Outside, no. 30, 2011), “Romance, Aesthetic Surgery, and the Postmodern Self” (In/Outside, no. 32, 2012), “Gigantism and Its Discontents: Chivalric Anxiety in Malory’s Morte Darthur” (The Journal of English Language & Literature, vol. 59, no. 2, 2013), “Ethics of Beheading: Horror, Women, Medieval Romance” (In/Outside, no. 35, 2013), “Sir Gawain’s ‘Unintelligible’ Dilemma: Romance, Masculinity, and the Consolation of Heterosexuality” (In/Outside, no. 44, 2018), “The Customs of Logres and the Grammar of Romance: The Present—and the Future—of Western Medieval Literature” (Reflections and Prospects of Humanities, 2018), “Criseyde and Courtly Love” (Love: From the Middle Ages to the Reformation, 2019), and “When the Knight Goes Crazy: Madness, Masculinity, and the Civilization of Love” (In/Outside, no. 47, 2019).