Conscious Curiosity
Searching for the Next Breakthrough

Date : 2015. 05. 20~21 / Location : DDP(Dongdaemun Design Plaza)

Meet our speakers, who are active leaders in the T.I.M.E. (Technology, Information, Media, Entertainment) areas.

Eli Park Sorensen Eli Park Sorensen

Professor, College of Liberal Studies, Seoul National University

Eli Park Sorensen is associate professor in the College of Liberal Studies at Seoul National University. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature from University College London in 2007. During 2007-08, Sorensen was a teaching fellow in Comparative Literature at University College London, and from 2008-09 he worked as a tenure-track assistant professor in English Literature at Kyung Hee University in South Korea. Between 2009 and 2011, Sorensen was a junior research fellow at Clare Hall and the Department of English at University of Cambridge. In 2011, he began to teach in the College of Liberal Studies at Seoul National University. Sorensen specializes in comparative literature, postcolonial thought, literary theory, continental philosophy and cultural studies.

He is the author of Postcolonial Studies and the Literary: Theory, Interpretation and the Novel (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and has published in academic journals such as NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, Journal of Narrative Theory, Paragraph, Modern Drama, Research in African Literatures, Partial Answers, and Forum for Modern Language Studies.