Research Interests:
20th and 21st-century Russophone literature and culture, lyric theory and form, technological culture, new media studies
Education:
PhD Candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University (expected 2026)
MPhil in Slavic Languages and Literatures, minor field in Comparative Literature, Yale University (2022)
MA in Russian Language and Literature, Sungkyunkwan University (2019)
BA in Russian Language and Literature, Sungkyunkwan University (2017)
Publications:
Dissertation:
“Digital Poetry and the Battle for Russia”
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
Kim Y. “A Battle for Post-Soviet Russian Poetry: The Literary Intelligentsia and Digital Graphomania.” Under review, Slavic and East European Journal.
Popova E. V., Kim Y. “Difficulties in using lexical and grammatical structures relevant to Russian scientific language by Korean postgraduates in productive types of speech (with examples from literary studies texts),” Russian Language and Literature (Noŏnomunhak), vol. 30, no. 4 (2019).
Reviews:
Review of Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989, by Penny M. Von Eschen. Slavic and East European Journal, planned publication in vol. 69, no. 2 (2025).
Review of I Put the Evening in the Drawer, by Han Kang. Full Stop, planned publication on June 16, 2025.
Conferences Presentations and Talks:
“A Battle for Literature: Post-Soviet Samizdat and Digital Graphomania.” Processing Perestroika: Making Sense and Making Do. Georgetown University, Washington DC. March 2025.
“Who Cares About Digital Haiku? The Great Divide and ‘The Garden of Forking Haikus.’” AATSEEL Annual Conference. Las Vegas, Nevada. February 2024.
“Where the Good Begins: A Study of the Arkadii Dragomoshchenko Prize.” BASEES Conference 2023. Glasgow, United Kingdom. March-April 2023.
“Social Prosody in Contemporary Russian Poetry.” ASEEES 54th Annual Convention. Chicago, IL. November 2022.
“Beyond the Borders of Languages: The Identity of the Displaced in Mikhail Pak’s Angels’ Dock.” ASEEES 53rd Annual Convention. New Orleans, LA. November 2021 (virtual).
Honors and Awards:
2025 Pony Chung Humanities Scholarship, Pony Chung Foundation.
2025 Ursula Williams Graduate Student Conference Grant, International Association for Language Learning Technology.
2023 MacMillan International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Yale University.
2023 University Dissertation Fellowship, Yale University.
2023 European Studies Council Fellows Award, Yale University.
2022 GSAS Professional Experience Fellowship, Yale University.
2022 Russian Studies Dissertation Fellowship, Yale University.
2020 Ronald Muirhead Byrnes Scholarship, Yale University.
2018 Winner, The 8th National Contest of Russian Debate, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.
2017-18 Shimsan Scholarship, Sungkyunkwan University.
Professional Activities:
2024-Present AATSEEL Graduate Student Committee
2024 The Certificate of College Teaching Preparation, Yale University.
2022-Present European Studies Graduate Fellow, Yale University.
2022-Present Graduate Affiliate at Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University.
2022-23 Slavic Graduate Student Advisory Committee, Yale University.
2022 Summer Research Laboratory, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (virtual).
2021-24 Co-organizer of Yale Slavic Colloquium, Yale University.
2021-22 Graduate Professional Experience Fellow at Assessment and User Experience Research, Yale Library.
2020-21 Research Assistant for research initiative “Imagining Russian Hackers: The Myth of Men and Machines,” Yale University.