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Sooyoung Chung

Lecturer

Full-Time Faculty

College of Arts and Sciences: English

Contact

Email: Sooyoung Chung
HM 254

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Stony Brook University, 2005
  • M.A., Seoul National University, 1996
  • B.A., Seoul National University, 1994

Profile

Dr. Sooyoung Chung earned her Ph.D. degree in English at Stony Brook University. Her major field is literary film adaptation, and she continues to research the topic of adaptation with particular interest in fairy tale adaptations and cross-cultural adaptations from South Korean literature/cinema to American cinema and vice versa. She currently teaches first- and second-year writing seminars.

Research interests

  • Film and Television Adaptation of Classic Literature
  • Intertextuality
  • Fairy Tale Adaptation / Fairy Tale in Popular Culture
  • Cross-Cultural Adaptation between South Korean and American Literature and Film

Courses taught

  • ENG100 Writing Seminar I
  • ENG200 Writing Seminar II
  • ENG198 Honors Writing Seminar

Selected publications and presentations

“A Cross-Cultural Scandal: Adapting Les Liaisons dangereuses for South Korean Cinema.” Literature/Film Quarterly 41.3 (2013): 210-219.

“Time Travel Romance across Cultures: Il Mare (Lee Hyun-Seung, 2000) and The Lake House (Alejandro Agresti, 2006),” NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) 43rd Annual Convention, Rochester, N.Y., 2012

“Who’s Telling the Story?: Roman Polanski’s Oliver Twist (2005) and the Issue of Authorship,” PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association) One Hundred-Eighth Annual Conference, Honolulu, 2010

“Enter the Matrix: Transtextuality and Adaptations of Jane Austen’s Emma,” Stony Brook University English Department Graduate Conference, Manhattan, N.Y., 2004