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Jae Eun Yoo

Hanyang University · Arts and Humanities

About the Lab

Professor Jae Eun Yoo's research spans interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of cultural studies, literary translation, and public health. Her work explores how narratives in contemporary literature—particularly by authors like Philip Roth, Toni Morrison, J.M. Coetzee, and Susan Choi—engage with themes of trauma, alterity, and ethical responsibility in transnational and postcolonial contexts. She also investigates dietary patterns and their health implications in Korean populations, linking sociocultural behaviors with metabolic health outcomes. Her research bridges literary analysis with public health data, emphasizing the ethical dimensions of representation and translation.

literary translationcosmopolitanismpublic healthnarrative traumacultural representation

Research Overview

Papers
19
Total Citations
10
Papers (5y)
6
Primary Field
Arts and Humanities

Research Output Trend

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Selected Papers

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Article|4 citations·2017
한국 성인의 채소와 김치 섭취량에 따른 영양상태와 대사증후군 위험도에 관한 연구: 2010-2011년 국민건강영양조사 자료를 이용하여
유재은, 김진수, 손숙미

본 연구는 20세 이상 한국 성인에 있어 총 채소 섭취량과김치 섭취량에 따른 영양상태와 대사증후군 위험도를 살펴보았다. 2010~2011년 국민건강영양조사 참여자 20세 이상 성인 6668명을 대상으로 개인별 24시간 회상조사 자료를 사용하여 총 채소 섭취량과 김치 섭취량을 구한 다음 각각에 대해 5분위로 나누어 일반 특성, 신체 계측, 생화학적지표와 더불어 대사증후군 위험도를 분석하였으며 그 결과는 다음과 같다. 1. 남녀 모두 총 채소 섭취량이 많을수록 나이(각 P for trend < 0.0001)와 소득 수준이 상위인 비율이 높은 경향을 보였다(각 P < 0.05). 남녀 모두 김치 섭취량이 많을수록 나이가 많은 경향이었으며(각 P for trend < 0.0001), 여성의 경우에는 김치 섭취량이 가장 높은 군은 하루에 한 번이상 외식 하는 비율(P < 0.01)과 패스트푸드를 1주일에 한번 이상 섭취하는 비율이 유의하게 낮았다(P < 0.01). 2. 남성의 경우 채소 섭

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Article|2 citations·2013
Broken Tongues in Dialogue: Translation and the Body inSlow Man
Jae Eun Yoo
Texas Studies in Literature & Language

In “The Task of the Translator,” Walter Benjamin claims that when understood as a mode, translation highlights kinship and disparity between different languages. Thus, without effacing linguistic and cultural differences, this “translationability” exposes innate alterity within each language. When this “mode” is conceived with cultural and individual particulars in mind, it can institute a more refined understanding of translation that is more sensitive toward the Other. Slow Man, the first nove

Sociology and Political ScienceSocial Sciences
3
Article|2 citations·2018
Remembering the “forgotten war” after 9/11
Jae Eun Yoo
SJR Q2Orbis Litterarum

This study looks closely at the treatment of the Korean War (1950–1953) in Indignation , by Philip Roth ( ), and Home , by Toni Morrison ( ), and reads in those works a re‐evaluation of the American experience in Korea in light of the conditions and concerns of the post‐9/11 era. In their portrayal of the forgotten Korean War, Roth and Morrison challenge redeployment of 1950s Cold War‐style frames and rhetoric by the Bush–Cheney administration in the context of the “War on Terror” and state viol

Cultural StudiesSocial Sciences
4
Article|1 citations·2012
트라우마를 수행하다 돈 드릴로의 서사실험 연구
유재은

Publised in 2000, Don DeLillo's The Body Artist is radicaaly different from his previous works in its theme and scope. Instead of offering a panoramic overview of the effects of global capitalism, the short novel proves into the traumatized mind of a body artist. In The Body Artist DeLillo experiments with the narrative form as it performs, rather than heals, the trauma. As a result, the reader is invieted to participate in the protagonist's gradual recognition of her self as irreversibly damage

5
Article|1 citations·2017
“The Kindness of Strangers”: Paul Yoon’s Cosmopolitan Imagination in Snow Hunters
유재은
http://www.americanfiction.or.kr

This paper examines major issues in recent discussion of cosmopolitanism and analyze Yoon’s rendering of cosmopolitan interactions in Snow Hunters. The newly forming cosmopolitanism, distinct from the traditional one that was refined in Western Europe under the influence the Enlightenment, is less antagonistic to nationalism and more focused on gaps, crevices, and overlaps in the national and cultural boundaries. Its goal is to delineate basic ethical responsibility toward political and cultural

6
Article|0 citations·2009
Spanish Translated Abstracts
Jae Eun Yoo, Jin Hwan Ahn, Jae Hyuk Yang, Hwan Koh, Hee Choi, Young Sun Yoon, Damian M. Rispoli, George Athwal, John Sperling, Robert H. Cofield
SJR Q1Arthroscopy The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related SurgeryOA

Objetivo: El objetivo del presente estudio fue determinar si existen variables preoperatorias de imgenes por resonancia magntica (MRI, por sus siglas en ingls) que pudieran predecir la reparabilidad de desgarros grandes a masivos del manguito de los rotadores. Mtodos: Se trataron cincuenta y un pacientes consecutivos con desgarros grandes a masivos del manguito de los rotadores con reparacin artroscpica con anclas de sutura. La reparacin primaria se subclasific en 4 tipos. Los tipos I y II fuero

SurgeryMedicine
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Article|0 citations·2011
“A Nothingness Capable of Damage”: Translating Trauma and Reading Alterity in The Foreign Student
Jae Eun Yoo
영미문학연구

This essay examines both the practice of translation and the trope of it as they are represented and reproduced by Susan Choi`s The Foreign Student. Chang and Katherine, the two protagonists of the novel, succeed in redefining each other outside the limiting social categorization and in relation to each other. This is made possible not because they identify with each other, but because they appreciate and respond to the complete Otherness each poses to the other. I argue that this relation is mo

Language and LinguisticsArts and Humanities
8
Article|0 citations·2020
“Reader, I Grew Up”: RewritingJane Eyreafter 9/11
Jae Eun Yoo
SJR Q1Critique Studies in Contemporary Fiction

American cultural and political presentations of 9/11 often resort to the easily recognizable narrative convention of Bildungsroman, intensifying the nostalgia for an illusory, ideal past before the crisis. Evoking the classic novel Jane Eyre as well as the history of its reading, Patricia Park’s Re Jane and Susan Choi’s My Education disrupt the narrative scheme of initiation, destabilizing and questioning the popular way of understanding growth in connection to the experience of 9/11. Both nove

Literature and Literary TheoryArts and Humanities
9
Article|0 citations·2020
Nationalism, Multiculturalism, and Translation: Translation in and of Please Look After Mom
Jae Eun Yoo
SJR Q1The Journal of English Language and LiteratureOA

In 2011, Please Look After Mom, a translation of a mega-bestseller novel in Korea, entered the American literary market with a significant commercial success. A close analysis of the translation, along with the celebration and controversy it caused on both sides of the pacific, reveal interesting and often paradoxical ideas about translation and its role in introducing cultural differences. The Korean original, Ommarul Put’akhae, employs translation to signify radical unsettling differences, and

Language and LinguisticsArts and Humanities
10
Article|0 citations·2013
Lost in the Passage: (Japanese American) Women in Julie Otsuka’s The Buddha in the Attic
유재은

Julie Otsuka’s latest novel, The Buddha in the Attic, is an unconventional Asian American novel in the sense that it emphasizes the break between Japanese American mothers and their daughters. Despite an attachment to their mothers, Japanese picture brides in the novel are separated from them by paternal authority and physical distance. They become mothers in America, but instead of being a source of inspiration and strength, the alienation they experience from their daughters renders them helpl

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Article|0 citations·2019
No Gun Ri Massacre and The Battle of Changjin Reservoir: The Korean War in Lark and Termite and The Coldest Night
Jae Eun Yoo
American studies

Two recent novels on the Korea War, Lark and Termite and The Coldest Night, focus on two particularly disturbing incidents of the Korean War: the No Gun Ri massacre and the battle of the Changjin Reservoir. The novels explore the ways in which these ugly episodes of the war revise the official memory of the Cold War and resonate with the lives of those within the U.S. After excavating and examining the relevance of the Korean War, they simulate the older paradigm of returning to domesticity, ref

Cultural StudiesSocial Sciences
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Article|0 citations·2016
“Here Stands a Man”: Home and Re-membering 1950s Manhood after 9/11
유재은

This essay examines the ways in which Toni Morrison challenges the 1950s notion of manhood as it is revived in the U.S. after 9/11. In the nationalistic response to the terrorist attack, American politics and popular culture expressed strong nostalgia for the 1950s as it is generally considered to be the period of American dominance and prosperity. However, in Home, Morrison takes “the scab off the 50’s,” as she has announced in an interview. In Home, 1950s American society makes it impossible f

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Article|0 citations·2019
No Gun Ri Massacre and The Battle of Changjin Reservoir: The Korean War in Lark and Termite and The Coldest Night
유재은

Two recent novels on the Korea War, Lark and Termite and The Coldest Night, focus on two particularly disturbing incidents of the Korean War: the No Gun Ri massacre and the battle of the Changjin Reservoir. The novels explore the ways in which these ugly episodes of the war revise the official memory of the Cold War and resonate with the lives of those within the U.S. After excavating and examining the relevance of the Korean War, they simulate the older paradigm of returning to domesticity, ref

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Article|0 citations·2018
“You inside me inside you”: Reading the Other in Self in How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Jae Eun Yoo
Institute of British and American Studies

모신 하미드의 세 번째 소설,『라이징 아시아에서 더럽게 부자되기』(How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia)는 풍자적인 제목에서도 알 수 있듯이 자기계발 문학의 패러디이며 그렇게 논의되어왔다. 다른 한편으로는 언어학자들과 서사학 자들은 소설이 2인칭 시점을 활용하는 독특한 방식에 주목한 바 있다. 이 논문은 소설의 2인칭 시점이 보편적인 자아를 비판적으로 재구성하며 특히 자아를 구성하기 위해 희생된 타자들에게 주목하는데 핵심적인 역할을 한다고 주장한 다. 나아가 소설의 독자를 서구에 위치시킴으로써 세계자본의 시대에 흔히 간과되는 복잡하면서도 폭넓은 관계들을 강조하는 양상을 논의한다.Moshin Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia almost announces itself to be a parody of self-help literature and has been duly discussed as such. On

Visual Arts and Performing ArtsArts and Humanities
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Article|0 citations·2011
“잊혀진 전쟁”과 세계화를 넘어: 폴 윤의『원스 더 쇼어』에 나타난 역사와 소통
유재은

The publication of Paul Yoon’s first book, Once the Shore, heralded the arrival of a remarkable new voice in the Korean American literature scene. This essay examines the unique manner in which this collection of short stories “re-presents” the traumatic modern history of Korea. On an imaginary Korean island where Once the Shore is set, the memory of the violent Korean past-Japanese imperialism, World War II, American military occupation, the Korean War, etc.-is all but lost. In the story “Once

Research Areas

Cultural StudiesLanguage and LinguisticsSociology and Political ScienceVisual Arts and Performing ArtsSurgeryLiterature and Literary Theory

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