Dr Sowon S Park

Dr Sowon S Park

Dr Sowon S Park Photo

Sowon S Park is Tutor and College Lecturer in English at Corpus Christi College, Oxford since 2005. Her previous academic appointments were at Cambridge University 2001-4 and Ewha University, Seoul 2000-2001 and she was visiting scholar at UCSD in 2013-4. Her publications in this field are The Dilemma of Cognitive Literary Criticism’ in Gildea, Goodwyn, Kitching and Tyson eds., English Studies: The State of the Discipline, Past, Present and Future (Palgrave, Nov 2014); ‘The ‘Hard’ Problem from a Literary Perspective’, Neohelicon (Springer, June 2014); ‘Beside Thinking’ in The Canadian Review of Comparative Literature (April 2014); ‘“Who are these people?”: Anthropomorphism, Dehumanization and the Question of the Other’, Arcadia (De Gruyter), May, 2013; ‘Science and Literature’: Reflections on Interdisciplinarity and Modes of Knowledge’, Reading Live: Literature, Science and the Humanities: Primerjalna Knjizevnost, (Summer 2012); and ‘The “Feeling of Knowing” in Mrs Dalloway: Neuroscience and Woolf’, Contradictory Woolf: Select Papers from the Twenty-First Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf  (May 2012). She is President of the ICLA Research committee on Literary Theory and the founder of the Unconscious Memory Network.