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Stella KimVisiting Assistant Professor, Spanish
Stella Soojin Kim is a feminist film scholar with a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She specializes in intersectional representations of race, gender, and sexuality in contemporary global film, particularly across Spanish, Korean, Italian, and English-language cinemas.
Dr. Kim’s teaching and research are characterized by a deep commitment to feminist, queer, and antiracist perspectives. Her latest article, “Seeing in Circles: Narrative Circularity, the Cosmetic Gaze, and the Fusion of Self and Other in Kim Ki-duk’s Sigan,” which was published in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, examines cosmetic surgery, the female body, and the film’s looping circular gaze in the context of South Korea’s plastic surgery culture. Currently, her research examines the formal, semiotic, and linguistic representation of intersexuality in Argentine filmmaker Lucía Puenzo’s film, XXY, and considers the connections between sex, gender, language, and the film’s queer-coded, dissenting cinematic gaze.
Dr. Kim has over 14 years of experience teaching at the university level, including at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; the University of Seville in Spain; Wake Forest University, where she served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish for four years; Spelman College; and now Emory University, where she is currently serving as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish. During this time, she has taught and mentored students from a variety of racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, religious, linguistic, and cultural backgrounds. She is grateful to all her students, past and present, for helping her become the teacher she is today.
Dr. Kim has taught all levels of Spanish relating to language, literatures, films, and cultures of the Spanish-speaking world, as well as film classes in English, including “Feminism and Film” and “Contemporary Korean Cinema.”
In her free time, she enjoys swimming, reading, watching movies, and eating new and delicious foods.
Dr. Kim’s teaching and research are characterized by a deep commitment to feminist, queer, and antiracist perspectives. Her latest article, “Seeing in Circles: Narrative Circularity, the Cosmetic Gaze, and the Fusion of Self and Other in Kim Ki-duk’s Sigan,” which was published in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, examines cosmetic surgery, the female body, and the film’s looping circular gaze in the context of South Korea’s plastic surgery culture. Currently, her research examines the formal, semiotic, and linguistic representation of intersexuality in Argentine filmmaker Lucía Puenzo’s film, XXY, and considers the connections between sex, gender, language, and the film’s queer-coded, dissenting cinematic gaze.
Dr. Kim has over 14 years of experience teaching at the university level, including at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; the University of Seville in Spain; Wake Forest University, where she served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish for four years; Spelman College; and now Emory University, where she is currently serving as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish. During this time, she has taught and mentored students from a variety of racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, religious, linguistic, and cultural backgrounds. She is grateful to all her students, past and present, for helping her become the teacher she is today.
Dr. Kim has taught all levels of Spanish relating to language, literatures, films, and cultures of the Spanish-speaking world, as well as film classes in English, including “Feminism and Film” and “Contemporary Korean Cinema.”
In her free time, she enjoys swimming, reading, watching movies, and eating new and delicious foods.
