Overview
Bonnie Yonbom Chung is a PhD candidate in the Department of Literatures in English, completing her dissertation, The Asian Diaspora’s Polyphonic Archive: Articulating the Islands of East Asia. She was awarded the Zhu Fellowship in the Humanities for Academic Year 2024–25 by the College of Arts & Sciences, and her research has been supported by the Cornell Library, the Einaudi Center for International Studies, American Studies Program, and the East Asia Program.
Bonnie’s writing has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Amerasia Journal, Journal of Asian American Studies, MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, and Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, among other venues. She is also contributing an essay to Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Korea, forthcoming from Duke University Press.
Bonnie is currently offering an expository writing seminar on transpacific literature and culture (ENGL 2880: Oceanic Encounters). She has previously developed and taught courses ranging from postcolonial theory and diaspora studies to global cinema, literature and environment, and war literature at Cornell University and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She also serves on the editorial board of Diacritics, A Review of Contemporary Criticism.
Research Focus
- Contemporary Global Anglophone
- Asian American literature
- Caribbean literature
- Postcolonialism
- Historical fiction