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Junyoung Verónica Kim is Assistant Professor of Korea and Diaspora Studies in the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at Binghamton University (SUNY). Her interdisciplinary research examines how settler militarism, imperialism, racial capitalism, and sexual regimes intersect in East Asia and Latin America and across hemispheric Asian American diasporas. Working across cultural production, including literature, film, visual art, and music, Kim mobilizes feminist and queer diasporic frameworks to bring to light the marginal, the buried, the forgotten, and the silenced histories and intimacies across the Pacific. 

She has published on Korean immigration in Argentina, Transpacific Studies, Asian-Latin American literature, and Latin American involvement during the Korean War. Her book in progress – Cacophonous Intimacies: Reorienting Diaspora and Race in Asia-Latin America – centers Asian diaspora(s) in Latin America, revealing the intimacies between seemingly disparate histories of multiple imperialisms, hemispheric American settler colonialism, and postcolonial nation building in both East Asia and Latin America. 

Kim serves on the editorial boards for the book series “Historical and Cultural Interconnections between Latin America and Asia” (Palgrave Macmillan) and “Between Asias and Americas” (University of Pittsburgh Press), and holds executive committee positions in numerous scholarly organizations. She is also at work on a second monograph, tentatively titled Nuclear Diaspora: Asian-Latin American Genealogies, the Black Pacific, and the Korean War, and is co-editing a special issue of the Korea Journal on "The Transpacific Korean War."

Publications

• “Transpacific Freedom Dreams Across Korea-Mexico: The Specter of North Korea and Insurgent Kinships in José Revueltas’s The Motives of Cain.” Korea Journal (forthcoming)
• “Pedagogías de rebelión: Revisitando Asia-Latinoamérica como método.” Estudios Avanzandos Nº 43º (2025)
• “Knowing from the Flesh: Disobedience, Epistemologies, and Disciplines.” Global Asias: Tactics & Theories. Eds. Tina Chen and Charlotte Eubanks. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. (2025)
• “Writing Asia-Latin America: Migrant Intersectionality and Differential Racializations in the Literature of Doris Moromisato and Siu Kam Wen.” Asian American Literature in Transition, Volume 4 (1995-Present). Eds. Betsy Huang and Victor Román Mendoza. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. (2021)
• “Asia-Latin America as Method: The Global South Project and the Dislocation of the West.” Verge: Studies in Global Asias Vol. 3 Issue 2 (2017)

Education

• PhD, MA, Cornell University
• BA, summa cum laude, Cornell University

Research Profile

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