haneul.lee@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
My doctoral dissertation, Die Bildwelt in Walter Benjamins Kafka-Lektüre (The Image-World in Walter Benjamin’s Reading of Kafka, 2023, Fink Verlag), focusses on images of Kafkaesque figures and various material images, such as portraits, Asian and expressionist paintings and silent films, that appear in Benjamin’s different texts on Kafka, including an essay, personal correspondence, a radio lecture, fragmentary pieces, numerous notes and drafts. While this project focuses more on Benjamin, my research in Oxford as an academic visitor examines the reception of Kafka in South Korea in various fields, such as translation, literature and popular culture, exploring versatile intercultural adaptations of Kafka’s work in the country over the last 70 years. I am also translating Carolin Duttlinger’s The Cambridge Introduction to Kafka (2013, Cambridge) into Korean (2024, Greenbee) and have sought to create dialogue between the Oxford Kafka Research Centre and the Korean Kafka-Society.
