Jongwoo Jeremy Kim

Jongwoo Jeremy Kim is an Associate Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University, specializing in modern and contemporary art addressing issues concerning gender, sexuality, and race. He is the author of Painted Men in Britain, 1868-1918 (Ashgate). His peer-reviewed articles include “Filming the Queerness of Comfort Women: Byun Young–Joo’s The Murmuring, 1995” (positions: asia critique), and “Picturing the Edwardian Family Man: The Nicholsons at Home” (Art History). In his co-edited, interdisciplinary anthology Queer Difficulty in Art and Poetry (Routledge), Kim discusses Robert Gober and anti-patriarchal temporality. Currently, he is completing his next book, Male Bodies Unmade: Picturing Queer Selfhood, which explores narratives of subjectivity formation and corporeal incoherence in the works by Aubrey Beardsley, Jean Cocteau, Francis Bacon, Robert Gober, David Hockney, and Andrew Ahn.