Kelly S. Walsh

Bio

Kelly S. Walsh is Professor of World Literature at Yonsei University’s Underwood International College in Seoul, South Korea, where he teaches courses on transnational modernism and postcolonial literature. He has published works on Euro-American and Korean modernism, as well as literature pedagogy. Currently, his research concerns whiteness in modernist poetics and the global circulation of modernist literature.

Contributions

Poetics and Pedagogy of Whiteness at a Distance: Reflections from Korea

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In my recent undergraduate seminar on whiteness in modern American literature at a university in Seoul, most students, aware of America’s history of racial violence and repulsed by Trumpian rhetoric, initially assumed “whiteness” to be something that operates openly and visibly, a deliberate strategy to support white supremacist ends. At a distance, within a largely racially homogenous society, this marked, legible understanding of whiteness impeded students’ recognition of its precarity and...

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