Dr. Solmi Chung's research focuses on Korean traditional fantasy, with a particular emphasis on pre-modern records documenting ghosts, spirits, and monsters. In her doctoral dissertation (2021), Chung explored the transformative encounters between imaginative entities and the introduction of novel ideologies, religions, philosophies, and cultures to trace the altered perceptions and sensory experiences of humans.
As a Fulbright postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, Chung plans to investigate how pre-modern fantasy has developed within East Asian culture, specifically analyzing the societal anxieties and psychological turbulence that emerged after the East Asian wars.
Dr. Chung received a Ph.D. in Korean Language and Literature from Seoul National University in 2021. Before joining Harvard, she served as a lecturer in Department of Korean Language and Literature at Seoul National University.
Field of Research: Korean pre-modern literature