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]

Seo-Young Chu
Born(1978-02-14)February 14, 1978
Virginia
OccupationAcademic, writer, #MeToo activist, Associate Professor
Alma mater2007 – PhD in English, Harvard University
Notable worksA Refuge for Jae-In Doe, Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep?
The native form of this personal name is Chu Seo-Young. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
In this Korean name, the family name is Chu.

Chu is best known for her work as an activist against rape culture on college campuses. She frequently campaigns for universities and colleges to create more robust sexual harassment policies, and enforce them.[7] She also regularly speaks out on behalf of college sexual assault victims, encouraging the universities to take accusations seriously, respond with compassion, and provide help to victims.[8]

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.[9] The Amazon author biography for Chu describes her as a "queer agnostic spinster".[10][11]

In 2000, Chu was sexually harassed and assaulted by her then-dissertation adviser Jay Fliegelman.[12][13] 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.[14] The publication became part of the dialogue about #MeToo.[14][15] "A Refuge for Jae-in Doe" was selected for inclusion in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018.[16]

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,[17] postmemory han, poetry, North Korea, her experiences as a survivor of sexual violence in the English Department at Stanford University,[14] and her struggles with bipolar disorder and suicidal ideation.[9][14][18][12][15][19][20][21][4][22]

References
  1. "Queens College Department of English » Seo-Young Chu".
  2. "Former Grad Students: Our Professors Raped Us". KQED. December 7, 2017.
  3. Hsu, Irene; Stone, Rachel (November 30, 2017). ""A Professor Is Kind of Like a Priest"". The New Republic.
  4. Nick Anderson (May 10, 2018). "Academia's #MeToo moment: Women accuse professors of sexual misconduct". The Washington Post.
  5. Ed, Op (December 5, 2017). "An open letter to Stanford on sexual harassment in academia".
  6. Chu, Seo-Young (2010). Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep?. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674055179.
  7. "Behind the Fliegelman sexual misconduct investigation". The Stanford Daily. 2017-12-02. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
  8. Wang, Kyle (2019-06-14). "Stanford One Year After #MeToo: How Stanford's Response Failed Victims of Sexual Assault". Stanford Politics. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
  9. Seo-Young Chu (March 26, 2019). "Free Indirect Suicide: An Unfinished Fugue in H Minor". The Rumpus.
  10. "Seo-Young Chu".
  11. Chu, Seo-Young (2010). Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep?: A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation. ISBN 978-0674055179.
  12. "Essay about being raped by professor sparks call for public acknowledgment from Stanford and disciplinary society". www.insidehighered.com.
  13. Schmalz, Julia (May 11, 2018). "'My Professional World Has Gotten Smaller'" – via The Chronicle of Higher Education.
  14. "WOVEN: A Refuge for Jae-in Doe: Fugues in the Key of English Major".
  15. Mangan, Katherine (November 11, 2017). "2 Women Say Stanford Professors Raped Them Years Ago" – via The Chronicle of Higher Education.
  16. Heti, Sheila (2 October 2018). The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018. ISBN 978-1328465818.
  17. Seo-Young Chu (November 29, 2018). "The DMZ Responds". Telos.
  18. "M'어머니 by Seo-Young Chu (KR 17, Spring 2017)". www.kartikareview.com.
  19. "After "A Refuge for Jae-in Doe": A Social Media Chronology* / Seo-Young Chu". 15 March 2018.
  20. "Utopias Misplaced: The Cost of Outsourcing Dystopian Poetics to North Korea". May 7, 2015 – via YouTube.
  21. Seo-Young Chu (Winter 2008). "Science Fiction and Postmemory Han in Contemporary Korean American Literature". MELUS. 33 (4): 97–121. doi:10.1093/melus/33.4.97. JSTOR 20343509.
  22. Emily DeRuy (December 1, 2017) [November 30, 2017]. "Stanford: Sexual misconduct revelation exposes storied professor's secret". Mercury News.
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