Christine Kim

Christine Kim is Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures and a faculty affiliate of UBC’s Asian Canadian Studies and Asian Migration program (ACAM). She was the editor-in-chief of the journal Canadian Literature (2020-25). Before joining UBC in 2020, she taught at Simon Fraser University where she was a founding co-director of Simon Fraser University’s Institute of Transpacific Cultural Research. Her research and teaching interests lie in Asian diaspora, the Cold War, imperialism, and race.

She is the author of The Minor Intimacies of Race (University of Illinois Press, 2016) and co-editor of Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora and Indigeneity (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2012). Her forthcoming book, Brutal Fantasies: Imagining North Korea in the Long Cold War (Duke UP, 2025), examines cultural representations of North Korea as they coalesce around Western fantasies of the inhuman. Christine is working on a new project that examines literary and filmic representations of Korean diasporas and migrations within illiberal spheres.