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David Kim

Associate Vice Provost, International Institute

Professor, Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies

Fields of interest: Postcolonial and global studies, human rights, digital humanities, world literature

David D. Kim is Professor and Vice Chair of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2021-22, he is also serving as Interim Faculty Director for the International Education Office. He is a faculty affiliate with the Global Studies Program at the International Institute. 

Professor Kim’s scholarly interests range from postcolonial, global, migration and translation studies and community engagement to human rights, cosmopolitanism, cultural and political theories, global literary histories, and digital humanities. His first monograph is Cosmopolitan Parables(Northwestern University Press, 2017). It investigates how and why, in the post-Cold War world,German writers represent memories of colonialism, Nazism, and communism as cross-referential, cosmopolitan entanglements.

His edited books include Globalgeschichten der deutschen Literatur (Metzler Verlag, 2020; co-edited with Urs Büttner), Reframing Postcolonial Studies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), The Postcolonial World (Routledge, 2016; co-edited with Jyotsna Singh), Imagining Human Rights (De Gruyter, 2015; co-edited with Susanne Kaul), and Georg Simmel in Translation (Cambridge Scholars, 2009). His peer-reviewed articles have recently appeared in The German Quarterly, Monatshefte, Gegenwartsliteratur, and Journal of Translation Studies. For a complete list of his publications, please see his curriculum vitae. His digital humanities project is titled WorldLiterature@UCLA. It explores the global intellectual network of writers, thinkers, and artists in the modern world.