School of Liberal Arts
Saera Yoon
Professor / UNIST
School of Liberal Arts
Professor / UNISTintro
Saera Yoon
Professor
Office: 114-401-5
Phone: 052-217-2012
Email: sayoon@unist.ac.kr
EDUCATION
Ph. D. Indiana University, Bloomington, 2004
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Major Field: 19th century Russian literature
Minor Field: Comparative Literature
Dissertation: Mythical Imagination in Historical Fiction: Pushkin, Lermontov and Gogol
Advisor: Dr. Andrew R. Durkin
M.A. Indiana University, Bloomington, 1998
Slavic Languages and Literatures
M.A. Korea University, Seoul, Korea 1995
Russian Literature
B.A. Korea University, Seoul, Korea 1993
Russian Language and Literature
Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
International Student Exchange Program, 1992
WORK EXPERIENCE
Full Professor, UNIST, September 2019-present
Associate Professor, UNIST, March 2013-August 2019
Assistant Professor, UNIST, February 2009-February 2012
Research Professor, Daejeon Univ., 2008
Post-Doc, Korea Univ., 2007-2008
publications
PUBLICATIONS
Monograph (wirtten in Korean):
Dostoevsky and Tolstoy: A Comparative Study of the Major Novels. Seoul: Hanyang University Press, 2019. (total 308 pages)
Selected A&HCI Journal Papers
(All refereed and all sole-authored)
“Flipping the Colonialist Paradigm: Grigorii Chkhartishvili’s Akunin,” The Russian Review 83. 2 (2024): 243-257. [Arts and Humanities Citation Index] https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12617
“Levin’s Hunting in Anna Karenina,” The Explicator 81. 2 (2023): 37-40. [A&HCI]
“Smerdiakov’s Fathers in The Brothers Karamazov,” Slavonic and East European Review 97. 2 (2019): 207-226. [A&HCI]
DOI: 10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.97.2.0207
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.97.2.0207
“A Missing Link: Levin at the Railway Station in Anna Karenina,” The Explicator 75. 2 (2017): 88-91. [A&HCI]
“Revitalization or Deception: Anna Karenina’s Central Characters in Europe,” Russian Literature 85 (2016): 89-108. [A&HCI]
“Intertextuality in Kurosawa’s Film Adaptation of The Idiot,” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 15.4 (2013): 1-9. [A&HCI]
“Myth(s) of Creation: Pushkin’s The Blackamoor of Peter the Great,” Russian Literature 73.3 (2013): 467-491. [A&HCI]
“Transformation of a Ukrainian Cossack into a Russian Warrior: Gogol’s 1842 Taras Bul’ba,” Slavic and East European Journal 49.3 (2005): 430-444. [A&HCI] http://www.jstor.org/pss/20058302
teaching
after a special lecture by Ahn Do Hyun in fall 2012
Literature and Creativity
“the ultimate value of our lives is decided
not by how we win but by how we lose.”
Ernest Hemingway
This course aims at looking into the dynamic relationship between literature and creativity. In this class we will deal with diverse themes to investigate ways in which the notion of creativity becomes engaged in knowledge production of our culture and society. Through close reading of selected works of literature, this course is designed to help students better understand human nature irrespective of time and space constraints. All of the selected works (both Western and Asian) are intended to facilitate students’ creative reasoning in critiquing various aspects of human life such as cognition, science, gender, and moral issues. Therefore, independent and critical thinking, along with active participation in discussion, will be strongly encouraged.
Saera Yoon
052-217-2012