Seo-Young Chu

Seo-Young Chu (Korean: 주서영; born February 14, 1978) is a Korean American scholar, poet, #MeToo activist, and associate professor of English at Queens College, CUNY.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} She is the author of Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation.^[6]

Life[]

According to Chu's autobiographical essay "Free Indirect Suicide," published in The Rumpus in March 2019, Chu was born in 1978 in Northern Virginia to Korean parents.^[7] The Amazon author biography for Chu describes her as a "queer agnostic spinster".^[8][9]

In 2000, Chu was sexually harassed and assaulted by her then-dissertation adviser Jay Fliegelman.^[10][11] In 2017 Chu published "A Refuge for Jae-in Doe," in Entropy Magazine, in which Chu wrote about being abused at Stanford and living with posttraumatic stress.^[12] The publication became part of the dialogue about #MeToo.^[12][13] "A Refuge for Jae-in Doe" was selected for inclusion in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018.^[14]

Education[]

In 1999 Chu earned a B.A. degree from Yale. In 2001, Chu earned a M.A. degree from Stanford. In 2007, Chu earned a Ph.D. degree from Harvard.

Work[]

Chu has written and spoken about science fiction,^[6] the DMZ in Korea,^[15] postmemory han, poetry, North Korea, her experiences as a survivor of sexual violence in the English Department at Stanford University,^[12] and her struggles with bipolar disorder and suicidal ideation.^{[7][12][16][10][13][17][18][19][4][20]}

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