Josephine Nock-Hee Park

Josephine Nock-Hee Park, School of Arts and Sciences President’s Distinguished Professor of English and Associate Dean for Arts and Letters in the School of Arts and Sciences, is a scholar of modern and contemporary American literature and culture, with a focus on American poetry and Asian American literature.

Park served two terms as Director of the Asian American Studies Program. She is also Chair of the Committee on Undergraduate Education and was a member of the Presidential Commission on Countering Hate and Building Community. In addition, she serves on the executive committee of the Kim Center for Korean Studies and as co-chair of the advisory board of the Sachs Program in Arts Innovation.

Park was awarded the Ira Abrams Award for Distinguished Teaching, the School’s highest teaching honor, in 2019, and is the recipient of multiple David Delaura Teaching Awards, sponsored by the English Undergraduate Advisory Board, and the Kahn Award for Outstanding Teaching by an Assistant Professor.

Park’s scholarly works include the award-winning Apparitions of Asia: Modernist Form and Asian American Poetics, and she has served on the editorial boards of numerous multidisciplinary journals.