- Assistant Professor of Korean
- Undergraduate Faculty Advisor (Korean)
- 听Ethan.Waddell@colorado.edu
Address:听Eaton Humanities (HUMN)听215
Office Hours: TTh听1-4pm or听by听appointment
Ethan Waddell received his MA degree in English at Yonsei University听and听earned his PhD degree at the University of Chicago in 2024. His听dissertation,听entitled 鈥淟istening to South Korean Fiction through Popular Songs, 1950s-1970s,鈥� examines popular music embedded in and constitutive of a selection of Korean prose fictions composed amidst the three-decade long turbulence of militarization, cold war realignment, and rapid development in the southern part of Korea beginning with liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945.
His dissertation was recognized by the Korean Research Network (KoRN) for a Korean Studies PhD dissertation manuscript workshop听and by听the Franke Institute for the Humanities听for a听Residential Dissertation Completion Fellowship.听He is听currently preparing听a book manuscript听based on his听dissertation听as well as a听co-translation of Kee Hyung Han鈥檚 monograph on censorship and Korean literature,听entitled听Colonial Spheres of Writing听(Singminji 怒i muny艔k, 2019).听Additionally, he has participated in projects aimed at facilitating greater access to primary materials for Korean studies: the听听and the听.
Publications:
- 鈥淧sychedelic Codes and Close Listening to South Korean Fiction, 1971鈥�1989.鈥澨�positions: asia critique听33, no. 1 (2025) [forthcoming].
- 鈥淐onnecting the Plots: The Extension of Return and Korean Ethnic Nationalism in Jane Jeong Trenka鈥檚听Fugitive Visions.鈥澨�Cultural Studies Review听23, no. 1 (2017): 87鈥�101.
Research and Teaching Interests:
Modern and contemporary Korean literature, popular music and culture, print culture, transmedial aesthetics, translation, bibliographic studies, diasporic writing