Woosung Kang is Professor of English Literature, a Chair of Comparative Literature Program, and a Director of American Studies Institute at Seoul National University, Korea. He is now working as an Advisory Board to Asia Theories Network and an organizer of Deleuze Studies in Asia. His research area includes early American literatures, the politics of aesthetics in literary theories, and Asian cinemas. 

He is the author of The Birth of a Style: Emerson and the Writing of the Moment in the American Renaissance (2003), Literary History of American Literature (2008), University and Intellect (2009), Painting as the Gaze of Philosophy (2014), and Translated Poe (2014). He has also translated many articles on American writers, Japanese films, Jacques Derrida’s Life. After. Theory (2007), and Avital Ronell’s Stupidity (2015) into Korean. He is now working on two books, Freud, the Humanist and Literary Derrida.