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Department ofModern Languages and Literatures

Yu Rim Kim

Yu Rim Kim

Lecturer

Yurim Kim is a lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. She has taught Spanish language and Latin American cultures at Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests encompass modern and contemporary Latin American literature, transpacific studies, race and ethnicity, and the Asian diaspora. Her current work examines how Latin American modernist poetry and short stories represented the Far East during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Yurim holds an MA in Iberian and Latin American Literatures and Cultures from UT Austin and is expected to complete her PhD in Iberian and Latin American Cultures at Stanford University in 2025.

Research Interests:

  • 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American Literature;
  • Poetry;
  • Migration;
  • Transpacific Studies
Courses
  • SPAN 2: Intro to Spanish & Spanish-Speaking Cultures II;
  • SPAN 3: Intro to Spanish & Spanish-Speaking Cultures III;
  • SPAN 135: Colloquium: Latin American Culture