Teckyoung Kwon (born 1947) is a literary critic, translator and professor in English literature at the School of English, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea. Her research interests are psychoanalysis, ecology, American and British fiction, narrative theory, neuro-humanities, Korean literature and Dao.
Education and research
She received her PhD in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, U.S.A. in August 1980.
She was visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley (critical theory) in 1986. She was visiting scholar at the Kent State University (Psychoanalysis and Dao) in 2001.
From 1980 to present she has been Professor at English Department, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea. From 2001 to 2003 she was Dean of the School of English.
Her research interests include: Psychoanalysis, Ecology, American and British Fiction, narrative theory, Neuro-Humanities, Korean literature, Dao.
Experiences
1989-1995: Editor of several Korean Literary Magazines including Literature of East and West (1989-1994), La Plume,(1995-2002), The Other Criticism (2002-2004) 1998-2000, 2001-2003: Editorial Board of Journal of English Language and Literature 2002-2004: President of Korean Society of Lacan and Contemporary Psychoanalysis 2005- 2007: President of the American Fiction Association of Korea 2007: Organizer of the International Conference for KAPS on "Psychoanalysis and the New Political Paradigm in the Global Age." 2008: President-elect of American Studies Association of Korea. 2006-2008: A Founding Member, and the President of KAPS (Korean Association of Psychoanalysis and Society) 2009: President of American Studies Association of Korea.
Publications
Books
1990: Post-Structuralism and Literary Theory (Seoul: Minum-Sa Publishing Co.) 1990: What is Post-Modernism? (Seoul: Minum-Sa): a steady seller in Korea: the 10th printing in 2012. 1994: Lacan and Desire (editing and translating Lacan's major writings) (Seoul: Munyae): a steady seller in Korea 1995: How to Read a Fiction? (Fiction and Narrative Theories)(Seoul: Munyae). The Best Book of the Year by Ministry of Culture and Education: the 11th printing in 2012. 1995: Desire in the Film and Fiction (Seoul: Minum-Sa) 1997: Writing in the Multicultural Age (Seoul: Munyae) Winner of Kim-Hwantae Critic Award 1998: Freud: Sexuality and Power (Seoul: Munyae) 2001: In the Realm of the Senses: Lacan and Film Interpretations (Seoul: Minum-Sa) 2002: Lacan, Zhuangzi, and Korean Flag (Seoul: Minum-Sa) 2003: Age of Surplus Enjoyment: ?i?ek and Post-industrial Society (Seoul: Munyae) 2005: Body and Aesthetics (Seoul: Kyung Hee University Press) 2010: Jacques Lacan: Nature and Man (Seoul: HanKook Munhwa-sa) The Best Book of the Year by Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism 2014: Bio-Humanity: Beyond the Boundary between Man and Nature (Seoul: Jip Moon Dang Publisher) supported by A-San Research Foundation 2015: Selected Literary Essays on Korean Literature of Teckyoung Kwon (one of 50 Korean Literary Critics of the 20th Century) (Seoul: Giman-G. Publisher). 2017. Nabokov's Mimicry of Freud: Art as Science. New York: Lexington Books, Imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. 2018. Deception in Thinking: Why AI can't be the human brain. Seoul: Writing-Pot, 2018. 2021. Emotion: The importance of a warm and intimate feeling. Seoul: Writing-Pot, 2021
Translations into Korean
1988: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Nabokov (Seoul: Chung Ha) 1988: Deconstructive Criticism by Vincent B. Leith (Seoul: Munyae) 1989: Psychoanalytic Criticism: Theory in Practice by Elizabeth Wright (Seoul: Munyae) 1992: Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method by Gerard Genette (Seoul: KyoboMungo) 1997: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (with Critical Introduction, Seoul: Minumsa) 2004: The Way of Zhuangzi by Thomas Merton (Seoul: Yuenhang Namoo) 2007: The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer (Seoul: Minumsa) 2010: The Call of the Wild by Jack London (Seoul: Minumsa)
Awards
1997: Distinguished Critic of the Year (Kim-Hwantae Critic Award) 1997: Distinguished Alumni Award by Kung Hee University Many times of Research Awards from National Research Foundation of Korea, and Kyung Hee University. Special Research Professor since 2000 at Kyung Hee University 2010-2011: Kyung Hee Fellow 2012-2017: National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) Fellow for "Excellence Scholarship in Humanities"