I am an incoming Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology and currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Sam Houston State University. My research brings together Victorian studies, translation studies, and global nineteenth-century studies to examine how literary texts, material objects, and bureaucratic practices shape cultural encounters across imperial contexts.
My work examines nineteenth-century Britain and East Asia through the lenses of material culture, translation, and imperial bureaucracy. My first book project, Reclaiming (Lost) Rhythms in Victorian Female Narratives, explores how Victorian female characters use material objects to produce alternative social rhythms that challenge dominant structures of gender and labor. My current research extends these interests to diplomatic translation and administrative reading practices, investigating how literary texts circulated and were interpreted across Britain and China.
My work has appeared or is forthcoming in Victorian Literature and Culture, Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory, Food, Culture & Society, and Humanities. My publications explore Victorian literature, material culture, translation, and cross-cultural encounters from interdisciplinary perspectives.
For more information about me or any of my projects, please contact me at myjungah92@shsu.edu
