(Comp Lit Luncheon) Dafna Zur (Stanford), “Dreaming DMZ: A Guide to Division for the South Korean Child”

Dafna Zur is Associate Professor of Korean literature and culture in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and is the current Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford University. Her first book, Figuring Korean Futures: Children’s Literature in Modern Korea (2017), interrogated the contradictory political and social visions made possible by children’s literature in colonial and postcolonial Korea. She has published articles on North Korean popular science and science fiction, translations in North Korean literature, the Korean War in children’s literature, childhood in cinema, children’s poetry and music, and popular culture. Her translations of Korean fiction have appeared in wordwithoutborders.org, The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Short Stories, the Penguin Anthology of Korean Fiction, and the Asia Literary Review.