Get The Elliott School Advantage
Watch our new video and learn the advantages of an Elliott School education
Watch Video
Full-time Faculty
Young-Key Kim-Renaud
Professor of Korean Language and Culture and International Affairs
Chair, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
Rome 467
801 22nd Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052
Phone: (202)
994-7107
Fax: (202) 994-1512
E-mail: kimrenau@gwu.edu
Homepage: http://home.gwu.edu/~kimrenau/
Education:
Ph.D., University of Hawaii
Expertise:
Korean language, linguistics, literature, Asian humanities
Background:
Professor Kim-Renaud, a theoretical linguist with broad interest in the humanities and Asian affairs, is Chair of the East Asian Languages and Literatures Department. She is Professor of Korean language and Culture and International Affairs and a faculty member of the Linguistics Program. She started the Korean Language and Culture program at GW in 1983. GW remains the only university in the Washington, DC area offering a degree program in Korean Language and Literature. She teaches all levels of Korean language and literature courses, and a course in Asian Humanities. She is the initiator and co-convener of the Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium in the Korean Humanities series at GW. Before joining GW, she worked as Assistant Program Director for Linguistics at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). In 1986-87, she taught at Harvard University as a visiting lecturer. She is past President of the International Circle of Korean Linguistics (ICKL) and the current Editor-in-Chief of its journal, Korean Linguistics.
Dr. Kim-Renaud has published widely on Korean linguistics, the Korean writing system, literary translation, language and society, language and politics, Korean cultural history and aesthetics. Her publications include eight books: Korean Consonantal Phonology (Tower Press 1975; reprinted by Hanshin Publishing 1991 and 1995); Studies in Korean Linguistics (Hanshin Publishing, 1986); The Korean Alphabet: Its History and Structure (University of Hawaii Press, 1997); Theoretical Issues in Korean Linguistics (CSLI, Stanford University, 1994); Studies in Korean Syntax and Semantics by Susumu Kuno et al., co-edited with John B. Whitman (International Circle of Korean Linguistics, 2004); King Sejong the Great: The Light of 15th-Century Korea (International Circle of Korean Linguistics,1992, 1997), translated into Korean (Sin'gu Publishing, 1998) and into German (Edition Peperkorn, 2002); Creative Women of Korea: From the Fifteenth Century to the Twentieth Century (M. E. Sharpe, 2003); And So Flows History, English translation of Hahn Moo-Sook's Korean original, Yoksanun hurunda (University of Hawaii Press, 2005). Kim-Renaud has edited two volumes of the journal, Korean Linguistics (2004 and 2006).
Dr. Kim-Renaud is a recipient of three Fulbright awards, twice for Korea and once for Jordan. She has won individual research grants from the Korea Foundation, the Korea Research Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council, the Academy of Korean Studies, and the ROK Arts and Culture Foundation. She has received program and institutional grants for GW from the Korea Foundation, the Korea Literature Translation Institute, and the Korea Research Foundation as well as the ROK Ministries of Education, of Information, and of Culture. She also won support for GW's Korean program from the Consortium of Universities of the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Area.
In addition to academic conferences, workshops, and panels on Korea-related themes, Dr. Kim-Renaud has organized major cultural activities and performances, including an exhibition on King Sejong; film festivals including one organized for 22 US college campuses; Kayagum concerts; and a Taekwondo ballet performance. She has also organized or participated in outreach programs for Korean and Korean-American communities.
Dr. Kim-Renaud was inducted into two honor societies, Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Beta Delta, and she was elected to the Cosmos Club in 2000. She has been interviewed by various media including the U.S. National Public Radio, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. She received a Republic of Korea Jade Order of Cultural Merit on October 9, 2006.
Courses Taught:
Hmn
6 Asian Humanities
Kor
1 Beginning Korean I
Kor
2 Beginning Korean II
Kor
3 Intermediate Korean I
Kor
4 Intermediate Korean II
Kor
105 Advanced Korean I
Kor
106 Advanced Korean II
Kor
107 Readings in Modern Korea
Kor
108 Readings in Modern Korea
Kor
111 Korean Literature in Translation I
Kor
112 Korean Literature in Translation II
Kor
162 Korean Culture Through Film
Last update: 10.04.07
