Heekyoung Cho

Professor, Department of Asian Languages & Literature

Heekyoung Cho is a Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures at the University of Washington. She is the editor of The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature (Routledge, 2022) and author of Translation’s Forgotten History: Russian Literature, Japanese Mediation, and the Formation of Modern Korean Literature (Harvard University Asia Center, 2016). The recipient of NEH and ACLS fellowships, Cho’s current research focuses on translation studies, transregional literary interactions, seriality in both old and new media, graphic narrative and its transmedia production, and media ecology in contemporary Korea and East Asia.