Formation of Periodical Authorship in 1920s Korea: Distant and Close Reading

Formation of Periodical Authorship in 1920s Korea argues that Korean authors who entered the literary scene during modern literature’s formative years were the subject mediated by periodicals.

Jae-Yon Lee is Associate Professor of Modern Korean Literature in the School of Liberal Arts at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology in Korea, where he explores the intersections of periodical studies, author studies, and cultural analytics. He has published many works on Korean cases of digital literary studies in Korean and English and recently translated Franco Moretti’s Graphs, Maps, Trees into Korean. He currently collaborates on various projects of data-driven textual studies.