Elaine H. Kim

Elaine H. Kim is a writer, editor and professor in Asian American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Some of her books are Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism (co-editor with Chungmoo Choi); Making More Waves: New Writing by Asian American Women (co-editor with Lilia V. Villanueva and Asian Women United of California); and East to America: Korean-American Life Stories (co-editor with Eui-Young Yu). Kim has also produced several videos about Asian American women.

Kim is the co-founder of the non-profit organization Asian Women United(AWU) of California, and was a former president at AWU. She also co-founded the Oakland Korean Community Center and the Asian Immigrant Women Advocates.

Biography
Kim received her B.A. in English and American Literature from the University of Pennsylvania, M.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, and her Ph.D. in Social Foundations of Education from University of California, Berkeley.

Kim was a recipient of Rockefeller and Fulbright Fellow.

Documentary production
 Slaying the Dragon: Asian Women in U.S. Television and Film 1988
 Labor Women, 2002
 Reloaded: Representing Asian Women Beyond Hollywood, 2010

Selected publications
 Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982
 East to America: Korean American Life Stories (co-edited with Eui-Young Yu), New York: The New Press, 1996
 Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism, Routledge, 1997
 Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Issues in Asian American Visual Art, University of California Press, 2003
 Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writing, Temple University Press, 2003

Selected awards

 Lifetime Achievement Award, Association for Asian American Studies, 2011
 Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in Cultural Studies, 2004
 Hall of Outstanding Women at California, 1995

References

External links
 Elaine H. Kim biography
 Article "War Story" (c. 1950–1953, by Elaine H. Kim)
 KOREAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
 Asian Women United (AWU) of California
 Amazon book: Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism
 Korea Policy Institute: Advisory Board profile
 the Oakland Korean Community Center
 Asian Immigrant Women Advocates

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Category:American writers of Korean descent
Category:Korean-American movement activists
Category:American sociologists
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Category:University of Pennsylvania alumni
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Category:American literary critics
Category:American women of Korean descent
Category:1942 births