Contributors

Contributors Daniel Bouchez is Chargé de Recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France and Chargé de Cours at the University of Paris VII. He has published a number of articles on the prose fiction of Kim Manjung; and his current research focuses on Kim Manjung's thought and Maurice Courant's biography. Vipan Chandra is an assistant professor of history and the coordinator of the Asian Studies Program at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts . Currently he is writing a monograph on the Independence Club and its contribution to reform and nationalism in late ninteenth-century Korea. Youngsook Kim Harvey is a professor of anthropology at Chaminade University and a member of the Clinical Faculty, Department of Psychiatry , John Burns School of Medicine. Her current research focuses on symbolic communication between Korean shamans and their clients. Kichung Kim is a professor of English at San Jose State University. His research interests include the novels of Yi Kwangsu and the short stories of Sönu Hwi. Uch'ang Kim received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1975 with a dissertation on the poetry of Wallace Stevens. Currently he is a professor of English at Korea University and has published a number of articles on modern Korean prose and poetry. J. Russell Kirkland is a doctoral candidate in Chinese history at Indiana University. His research interests extend from Taoist philosophy and religion to the kingship myths of ancient East Asia, and articles by him have appeared in Novum Testamentum, Studia Biblica et Theologica, and History ofReligions. 172CONTRIBUTORS Russell McLeod received his Ph.D. from Stanford University with a thesis on the poetry of Meng Chiao (751-814). Currently he is an assistant professor of Chinese literature at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Kevin O'Rourke is an associate professor of English Literature at Kyunghee University. His current research topic is the influence of English poetry on the Korean poetry of the 1920s. He has published translations from traditional and modern poetry, most recently his Trumpet Shell (1979). Marshall R. Pihl received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1974 and has published translations of traditional and modern Korean fiction. Currently he is director of the Harvard Summer School. Frits Vos is a professor of Japanese and Korean Studies at the University of Leiden. Currently he is preparing a complete translation of the Samgukyusa . Chang Sik Yun received his Ph.D. in comparative literature from Princeton University in 1972 and has taught at the University of Puget Sound. Studies by him have appeared in Comparative Literature Studies. ...