Hyunyoung Cho
Hyunyoung Cho
Professor
Early Modern British Literature and Culture; Mobility and Family; Ecocriticism and the Late Renaissance; Plants and Insects in Early Modern Culture; Poetry and Early Modern Science; Cross-Cultural Encounter and Communication; Literature for the Public; Literacy and Humanities Education in the Age of AI
A native of South Korea, Dr. Cho received her BA and MA at Seoul National University and came to the U.S. for her doctoral study, receiving her Ph.D. in English literature at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick). In Spring 2014, she joined Mason Korea as a founding faculty member of the campus. She served as the first English Program Coordinator of the campus from 2016 to 2022 and as the inaugural Chair of the Mason Korea Faculty Assembly in 2021. She is the first recipient of the Mason Korea Teaching Excellence Award (2022).
Her area of specialty is early modern British literature. Combining her research interest in migration with her experience teaching international students, she has also worked on issues of transnational education. Her current project examines the ideas of nature and the intersections of literature and science in early modern European culture. She serves on the Andrew Marvell Society Executive Committee, the International Milton Symposium Standing Committee, and as a member of board of directors in multiple scholarly societies of English studies in Korea. She also serves on the Incheon Metropolitan City Office of Education's statutory Committee for International Exchange and Cooperation.
조현영 교수는 서울대학교 영어영문학과를 졸업하고 동대학원에서 영문학 석사를 받은 후, 미국 럿거스 뉴저지 주립대학교에서 영문학 박사 학위를 받았다. 조지메이슨 대학교 한국캠퍼스에서 문학을 가르치고, 르네상스 영문학, 17세기 영국역사와 문화, 영국시, 영국소설을 연구하고 있다. 국제 밀턴 심포지움 상임위원회 위원, 국제 앤드류 마블 학회 집행위원회 위원 등으로 국내외 학술단체에서 활동하는 한편, 공공인문학의 확장과 글로벌/글로컬문해력교육에도 힘쓰고 있다.
Selected Publications
Cho, Hyunyoung. Book Review of Anna Battigelli, ed. Literature and the Arts. Renaissance Quarterly, Cambridge University Press, 78.3 (2025): 953-55. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2025.44
Cho, Hyunyoung. "Surveying 'Paradise's only map': Andrew Marvell and Early Modern Science," Journal of British and American Studies. 55 (2022): 129-59.
Cho, Hyunyoung. "Education of Eve in John Milton’s Paradise Lost: Criticality of Discussion and Debate," In/Outside: English Studies in Korea. 51 (2021): 275-99. [in Korean]
Cho, Hyunyoung. "John Milton's Of Education and the Humanities in College Education," Journal of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies. 28.2 (2018): 267-87. DOI:10.17054/jmemes.2018.28.2.267
Cho, Hyunyoung. " 'Homeward returning': Plebeian Romance and Naturalization of Vagrancy in John Milton's Paradise Lost." Journal of English Language and Literature. 64.1 (2018): 135-50. DOI : 10.15794/jell.2018.64.1.008
Rosenblum, Karen E., David W. Haines, and Hyunyoung Cho. "Where Are We, When Are We, and Who Are We to Each Other? Connectedness and the Evolving Meanings of International Education." International Student Connectedness and Identity. Ed. Ly Thi Tran and Catherine Gomes. Singapore: Springer, 2017. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-2601-0_10
Cho, Hyunyoung, David W. Haines, and Karen E. Rosenblum. "Drifting Houses, Shifting Anchors: A Case of Transnational Higher Education in Korea." Global Perspectives and Local Challenges Surrounding International Student Mobility. Ed. Krishna Bista and Charlotte Foster. Pennsylvania: IGI Global, 2016. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9746-1.ch008
Expanded Publication List
Grants and Fellowships
PI, Incheon-ASEAN Global Youth Camp education program, Incheon East Asian Global Education Institute, 2025.
PI, Incheon-New York Student Exchange Program, Incheon Metropolitan City Office of Education, 2025.
PI, "Different, We Walk Together: Literature-Centered Global Literacy Program," Incheon Metropolitan City Office of Education, 2025.
Governor of Education Award of Appreciation, Incheon Metropolitan Office of Education, 2025
PI, "Different, We Walk Together: Literature-Centered Cultural Exchange Program," Incheon Metropolitan City Office of Education, 2024.
Faculty Research and Development Award, George Mason University Korea, 2023, 2024, & 2025.
Center for Humanities Research (CHR) Summer Research Grant, George Mason University, 2022
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Scholar, 2018.
MK President Research Award, George Mason University Korea, 2018
Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Seminar in Historical Interpretation Fellowship, Rutgers University, 2005
Courses Taught
ENGH 100 Composition for Multilingual Writers | ENGH 101 Composition
ENGH 302 Advanced Composition (f2f & online)
ENGH 201 Fairy Tales in Transatlantic Literature and Culture, from Courtly Love Poems to Maleficent
ENGH 202 The Rise of Modern Economy and Culture, from Utopia to Robinson Crusoe
ENGH 202 Migration in Literature, Ancient and Modern
ENGH 300 The Genesis of Modern Economy and Culture
ENGH 300 Shakespeare for Our World
ENGH 300 Literature for the Public
ENGH 362 Global Voices: Modern and Contemporary East Asian Culture
ENGH 367 World Literatures in English
KORE 311 Modern Korean Literature in Translation
Education
Ph.D. English, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick, USA.
M.A. English Literature, Seoul National University, Korea.
B.A. English Language and Literature, Seoul National University, Korea.
Recent Presentations
[Forthcoming] "Cultivating Key Competency in the AI-Assisted Global Society through Glocal Literacy and Humanities Education," English Language and Literature Association of Korea Annual International Conference, Kyungbuk National University, Korea, December 19, 2025. [in Korean]
[Forthcoming] With Mason Students, “Language Welfare and English Education in the Age of AI: From Skills to Competency,” ReadWalkWrite Conference, Incheon Metropolitan City Office of Education, Incheon, Korea, November 29, 2025. [in Korean]
[Forthcoming] "English Education in the Age of AI: Language Welfare and Global Literacy," Symposium on English in Public Education, National Assembly, Seoul, Korea, November 13, 2025 [in Korean]
"National Competency in the Age of AI and English Education Centered on Global Literacy," English in Public Education in the Age of AI and National Competitiveness: Joint Symposium of English Associations in Korea, Kyungbuk National University, Korea, August 23, 2025. [in Korean]
With Eleven Mason Students, Yibin Cho, Kippeum Joy Choi, Jungbin Eom, Jisu Kim, Minsoo Kim, Hyeyeon Kweon, Chaeyoung Moon, Jessmine Huynh Nguyen, Jinuk Seo, Hojae Song, and Jinhyeop Pyo. "Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Incheon," Keynote Address in Incheon-ASEAN Global Youth Camp, Incheon Metropolitan City Office of Education, Yonsei University International Campus in Songdo, Korea, July 21, 2025.
With Five Mason Students, Jungbin Eom, Jisu Kim, Minsoo Kim, Cheho Moon, and Chaeyoung Moon. "Bridging Two Cultures and Global Literacy," Keynote Address in Incheon-New York Student Exchange Program, Incheon Metropolitan City Office of Education, Korea, July 13, 2025.
"Global Literacies and Narrative-Based Education in the Age of AI," Korean Society for Teaching English Literature Annual Conference, Chongshin University, Seoul, Korea, June 14, 2025. [in Korean]
Keynote Address: "Toward the World, Negotiating Different Cultures with High Language Barriers," Incheon-New York Student Exchange Program Launch Ceremony, Incheon Metropolitan City Office of Education, Incheon, Korea, March 10, 2025. [in Korean]
"Teaching Paradise Lost in a Gen-Ed Literature Course at an International Campus of a U.S. University," Milton in the Curriculum: a Global Conversation, Milton Society of America, February 14, 2025.
With Three Mason Students, Jungbin Eom, Minsoo Kim, and Chaeyoung Moon, “ReadWalkWrite, Language Justice, and ‘Different, We Walk Together’ Project: Literature Centered Cross-Cultural, Cross-Language, and Cross-Generation Activities in Incheon Inner City,” ReadWalkWrite International Academic Conference, Korean Education Research Association and Incheon Metropolitan City Office of Education, Incheon, Korea, December 19, 2024. [in Korean]
With Courtney Wooten et al., "Honoring Students' Linguistic Diversity through Programmatic Inclusive Teaching Initiatives," On-Demand Session, Innovations in Teaching and Learning Conference, Stearns Center, George Mason University, USA, September 19-20, 2024.
"A View from Korea: Expanding Milton's Readership, in Global Context," Milton's Place in the Profession, Global Perspectives Roundtable, Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Chicago, USA, March 23, 2024.
Seventeenth Century Draining of Fens and Marvell's "Salmon Fishers" in Upon Appleton House, Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Chicago, USA, March 22, 2024.
"Paradise Lost as a Story of Bildung," a Public Lecture cohosted by the Korean Association of Classical Medieval and Renaissance English Literature and by Incheon Metropolitan City Office of Education and Incheon East Asia Global Education Institute, Chiltong Madang, Incheon, Korea, February 24, 2024.[in Korean]
“Milton’s Paradise Lost and Lawrence’s The Rainbow,” D. H. Lawrence Society in Korea, Zoom, December 15, 2023. [in Korean]
"Milton in D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow," The Thirteenth International Milton Symposium, Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, July 10 - 14, 2023.
Center for Humanities Research, 2022 Summer Funding Awardees Joint Research Presentations, February 3, 2023.
“Making Milton Hospitable, Across Borders: Enhancing Engagement in Paradise Lost
for Multilingual Students,” Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tamkang University, New Taipei City, Taiwan (Hybrid), October 21-22, 2022.
“Birds and Bugs in Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress”: Re-working Egyptian Solar Mythology in the Age of Bacon,” South Central Renaissance Conference, University of Alabama – Tuscaloosa, USA (Online), March 3 – 5, 2022.
“Remembering Fenland and Its Residents in Seventeenth-Century Poetry,” The English Language and Literature Association of Korea Annual Conference, Seoul, Korea (Zoom), December 13-15, 2021. [in Korean]
“Simile in Paradise Lost, Yet Once More,” The Twelfth International Milton Symposium, Palais Universitaire, Strasbourg, France, June 17-21, 2019.
“Reading Paradise Lost with Princess Sleeping Beauty as a Guide,” a public lecture, Cohosted by Sunrise Public Library and The Humanities Center, Incheon National University, Incheon, Korea, March 28, 2019 [in Korean].
“John Milton in Twenty-First Century Korea: Popular Sovereignty, Post-humanism, and Humanities Education,” Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, USA, March 22-24, 2018.
“Translating Milton, Milton’s ‘Translation’: Aeneas and Dido in Paradise Lost,” The First MLA International Symposium, “Other Europes: Migrations, Translations, Transformations,” Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany, June 23-25, 2016.
In the Media
"English in Public Education in the Age of AI and National Competitiveness," a Joint Symposium, was held by Four English Scholarly Associations 4개 영어학술단체, "AI 시대 영어공교육 강화" 심포지움 개최(Kyosu News, August 25, 2025)
Incheon Metropolitan City Office of Education Welcomes the New York City Delegation for the "Incheon-NYC Student Exchange Program" 인천시 교육청, "인천-뉴욕 고교생 국제교류 프로그램" 뉴욕 방문단 환영 행사 개최 (DongA Sports, July 16, 2025)
The 2025 Incheon and New York City Student Exchange Program Completes Successfully 인천교육청 뉴욕 고교생 국제교류 프로그램 성료 (shinailbo.co.kr, March 31, 2025)
The 2025 Incheon and New York City Student Exchange Program Completes the Global Capacity Training 2025 인천 뉴욕 고교생 국제교류단 글로벌 역량 강화 교육 성료 (maeilnews.com, March 12, 2025)