Jaeyeon Jeon
Graduate Student, University of California, Santa Barbara
Jaeyeon Jeon is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature as a Fulbright fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests include world literature, translation theory, European modernism, comparative modernism(s), contemporary East Asian literature, and East-West intertextual relations. He holds a BA in Comparative Literature from Yonsei University and has taken courses at the University of Geneva, the Sorbonne, and Kyoto University thanks to generous support from his alma mater, the French government, and Kyoto University. Recently, he has presented at KU Leuven, IUC-Stanford, and his work is forthcoming in The Canadian Review of Comparative Literature.