dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss

Seo-Young Chu is a queer Korean American scholar, feminist, poet, #MeToo activist, and associate professor of English at Queens College, CUNY. She is the author of  “A Refuge for Jae-in Doe: Fugues in the Key of English Major” (2017) and Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation (2010).

Seo-Young Chu

Differentially Unwell: On Mimi Khúc’s “dear elia”

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

Seo-Young Chu is a queer Korean American scholar, feminist, poet, #MeToo activist, and associate professor of English at Queens College, CUNY. She is the author of  “A Refuge for Jae-in Doe: Fugues in the Key of English Major” (2017) and Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation (2010).

Seo-Young Chu

Articles

Differentially Unwell: On Mimi Khúc’s “dear elia”