Eunjung Kim, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Department of Cultural Foundations of Education and Disability Studies Program at Syracuse University.

Kim is a recipient of the AAUW International Fellowship (2006-2007); the Future of Minority Studies postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (2007-2008); the Vulnerability Studies postdoctoral fellowship at Emory University (2008-2010); and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Institute for the Research in the Humanities Residential Fellowship (2013-2014), Ewha-Hyunwoo Women and Peace Academic Award (2020), Excellence in Graduate Education Faculty Recognition Award (2021), Society for the Humanities Fellowship at Cornell University (2021-2022), the National Humanities Center Fellowship (on leave 2024-25).

Eunjung Kim’s research and teaching interests include transnational feminist disability studies; theories of vulnerability and human/nonhuman boundaries; Korean cultural history of disability, gender, and sexuality and anti-violence feminist disability movements; Asian feminisms and women’s movements; critical humanitarian communications and human rights; asexuality and queer theories. She is currently working on a book-length manuscript on violence against people with disabilities and illnesses, health justice activisms, posthumous care, and the ecology of aging and dying in South Korea and beyond.

Kim’s book Curative Violence: Rehabilitating Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Korea published by Duke University Press (Alison Piepmeier Book Prize, National Women’s Studies Association, 2017; James B. Palaise Prize, Association for Asian Studies, 2019) examines what the social and material investment in curing illnesses and disabilities tells us about the relationship between disability and Korean nationalism. Her work appeared in journals such as Catalyst: Feminism, Theory and Technoscience; Sexualities; GLQ; Social Politics; Disability and Society; Sexuality Research and Policy; The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Education; Canadian Journal of Film Studies; and Wagadu: Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies and in edited collections, The Problem Body: Projecting Disability on Screen; Against Health; Intersectionality and Beyond; Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives; Disability, Human Rights, and the Limits of Humanitarianism; and The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability.

Eunjung Kim, “With Respect to Degeneration and Disability: Reflections on the Conditions of Nonviolence in The Vegetarian.” In Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea, ed. Michelle Cho and Jesook Song (University of Michigan Press, 2024), 140–169.

Eunjung Kim, “Asexual Kinship: Capitalism, Reproduction, and an Imperiality of Asexuality.” In Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives, 10-year anniversary edition, ed. KJ Cerankowski and Megan Milks (Routledge, 2024), 305–321.

Eunjung Kim “Continuing presence of discarded bodies: Occupational harm, necro-activism, and living justice” for the special issue of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 5.1 (2019): 1-29.

Alison Kafer and Eunjung Kim, “Disability and the Edges of Intersectionality.” In The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability, ed. Clare Barker and Stuart Murray (Cambridge University Press, 2017), 123–38.

Eunjung Kim, “Unbecoming Human: An Ethics of Objects.” In Queer Inhumanism, ed. Mel Chen and Dana Luciano, special issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 21.2–3 (2015): 295–320.

Eunjung Kim, “The Specter of Vulnerability and Bodies in Protest.” In Disability, Human Rights and Limits of Humanitarianism, ed. Michael Gill and Cathy Schlund-Vials (Ashgate, 2014), 137–54.