Sowon Park

Education

D.Phil (Oxford)

Bio

Neurocognitive Literary Criticism; British Modernism; Political Fiction; World Literature; Script and Translation

Dr. Sowon S Park specializes in British Modernism, Political Fiction, World Literature, and the relationship between Literature and other forms of knowledge, in particular Cognitive Neuroscience.

Before coming to UCSB, she was Lecturer in English at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Her previous academic appointments were at Cambridge University and Ewha University, Seoul. She has also held visiting appointments at UCSD, ZFL, Geisteswissenschaftliche Zentren, Berlin and the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University, UK.

She is creator/convener of Unconscious Memory Network

Her affiliate appointments are in: Comparative Literature, Translations Studies and East Asian Languages and Cutural Studies; and she serves on the Advisory Board of: The Graduate Center for Literary Studies, Cognitive Science Emphasis, East Asian Center, Digital Arts and Humanities Commons and Global Engagement Faculty Group

Her publications are on Virginia Woolf, Suffrage fiction, Modernism, East Asian literature, World literature, Script, Pak Kyongni and neuro-cognitive literary criticism.

She is co-series editor ofGlobal Asias (Oxford University Press); and Critical Interventions in Medical and Health Humanities.(Bloomsbury).

Dr Park serves on the editorial board of the following literary journals : Neohelicon, Arcadia, Primerjalna književnost and The Korean Association of Nineteenth Century Literatures in English.

Her publications are on Virginia Woolf, Suffrage fiction, Modernism, East Asian literature, World literature, Script, Pak Kyongni and neuro-cognitive literary criticism.

She is co-series editor of Global Asias (Oxford University Press); and Critical Interventions in Medical and Health Humanities (Bloomsbury).

Dr Park serves on the editorial board of the following literary journals : Neohelicon, Arcadia, Primerjalna književnost and The Korean Association of Nineteenth Century Literatures in English

She blogs on K-Pop: Global K-Pop, and 'BTS and FanTranslation'. A New Discovery course, K-Pop and Cultural Technology, was created and first offered Fall 2019

She was co-Investigator of the AHRC funded 'Creative Multilingualism’ project, and is former/honorary President of the Research Committee on Literary Theory of the International Comparative Literature Association

Research Interests & Topics:

Emotion, 4-E cognition (embodied, enactive, embedded and extended mind), Empathy, Narrative, Neurodiversity, Neuroaesthetics, Neurophenomenology, Affordance.