Byungsam Jung
Byungsam Jung
Assistant Teaching Professor, Russian
CONTACT
Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
Email: byjung@syr.edu
PROGRAM AFFILIATIONS
Russian Language Literature and Culture
Degrees
Ph.D., Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University, 2023
Byungsam joined the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics in 2023. He is teaching beginning and intermediate-level Russian language classes and an upper-level course in photojournalism in Russia.
Byungsam’s research ranges from early nineteenth through twentieth-century Russian literature and culture, with broader interests in visual culture, media studies, theory, technological history, and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of literature.
Nikolai Gogol
Andrei Bely
Vladimir Nabokov
“Lolita in Humbert Humbert’s Camera Obscura and Lolita in Vladimir Nabokov’s Camera Lucida,” Comparative Literature (September 2022)
Centennial Teaching Award. The School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University, 2023.
G. J. Pigott Scholars Program Award. The School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University, 2019.
Graduate Research Scholarship for Humanities. Korea Student Aid Foundation, 2012.
Honors, Yonsei University, 2007.